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1840 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published in English United Kingdom * Thomas Aird, ''Orthuriel, and Other Poems'' * Matthew Arnold, ''Alaric at Rome'' * Robert Browning, ''Sordello'' * Caroline Clive, under the pen name "V", ''IX Poems by 'V * Thomas De Quincey, ''Recollections of the Lake Poets'', final two essays on the Lake Poets published in ''Tait's Edinburgh Magazine'' (first essay published in 1836; see also ''Recollections'' 1835, 1839): ** "Westmoreland and the Dalesmen," January ** "Society of the Lakes, I, II, and III," January, March, and June * Frederick William Faber, ''The Cherwell Water-Lily, and Other Poems'' * Monckton Milnes, ''Poetry for the People'' * Thomas Moore, ''The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore'', in 10 volumes, published starting this year and ending in 1841; Irish poet published in the United Kingdom * Robert Owen, ''The Social Bible'' * P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Poetry
Irish poetry is poetry written by poets from Ireland. It is mainly written in Irish and English, though some is in Scottish Gaelic and some in Hiberno-Latin. The complex interplay between the two main traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English and Scottish Gaelic, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to categorise. The earliest surviving poems in Irish date back to the 6th century, while the first known poems in English from Ireland date to the 14th century. Although there has always been some cross-fertilization between the two language traditions, an English-language poetry that had absorbed themes and models from Irish did not finally emerge until the 19th century. This culminated in the work of the poets of the Irish Literary Revival in the late 19th and early 20th century. Towards the last quarter of the 20th century, modern Irish poetry tended to a wide range of diversity, from the poets of the Northern school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monckton Milnes
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, FRS (19 June 1809 – 11 August 1885) was an English poet, patron of literature and a politician who strongly supported social justice. Background and education Milnes was born in London, the son of Robert Pemberton Milnes, of Fryston Hall, Castleford, West Yorkshire, and the Honourable Henrietta, daughter of Robert Monckton-Arundell, 4th Viscount Galway. His grandmother was Rachel Slater Milnes (née Busk, 1760-1835), niece of Sir Wadsworth Busk. Milnes was educated privately, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1827. There he was drawn into a literary set, and became a member of the famous Apostles Club, which then included Alfred Lord Tennyson, Arthur Hallam, Richard Chenevix Trench, Joseph Williams Blakesley, and others. After graduating with an M.A. in 1831, Milnes travelled abroad, spending some time at the University of Bonn. He went to Italy and Greece, and published in 1834 a volume of ''Memorials of a Tour in s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1870 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Awards Works published United Kingdom * Edward Lear, ''Nonsense Songs, stories, Botany, and Alphabets'' (published this year, although the book states "1871"; see also ''Book of Nonsense'' 1846, ''More Nonsense'' 1872, ''Laughable Lyrics'' 1877)Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * William Morris, ''The Earthly Paradise'', Part 4 (Parts 1 and 2 1868, Part 3 1869) * Arthur O'Shaughnessy, ''An Epic of Women, and Other Poems'' * Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ''Poems'', including "Jenny" and a fragment of "The House of Life", exhumed from Elizabeth Siddal's grave * James Joseph Sylvester, a mathematician, publishes ''The Laws of Verse'' * Alfred Lord Tennyson, ''Idylls of the King'' with eight Idylls in the order Tennyson wanted at this point (see also ''Idylls of the King'' 185 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1857
Events January–March * January 1 – The biggest Estonian newspaper, ''Postimees'', is established by Johann Voldemar Jannsen. * January 7 – The partly French-owned London General Omnibus Company begins operating. * January 9 – The 7.9 Fort Tejon earthquake shakes Central and Southern California, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''). * January 24 – The University of Calcutta is established in Calcutta, as the first multidisciplinary modern university in South Asia. The University of Bombay is also established in Bombay, British India, this year. * February 3 – The National Deaf Mute College (later renamed Gallaudet University) is established in Washington, D.C., becoming the first school for the advanced education of the deaf. * February 5 – The Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States is promulgated. * March – The Austrian garrison leaves Bucharest. * March 3 ** France and the United Kingdom formal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1845 In Poetry
::::— Edgar Allan Poe, '' The Raven'' Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 10— Robert Browning, 32, and Elizabeth Barrett, 38, begin their correspondence when she receives a note declaring "I love you" from Browning, a little-known poet whose verses she had praised in her poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship"; on May 20 they meet for the first time. She begins writing her ''Sonnets from the Portuguese''. * April - Nathaniel Hawthorne first publishes "P.'s Correspondence", a short story and example of alternative history in which many poets and other writers and political figures who have died in real life (such as John Keats, Percy Shelley and Lord Byron) are described as still living, and vice versa. The story, which appears in ''The United States Magazine and Democratic Review'', is later included in Hawthorne's ''Mosses from an Old Manse'' (1846). * Works published in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1827 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * First publication of the 16th century Scottish Bannatyne Manuscript begins in Edinburgh by the Bannatyne Club. Works published in English United Kingdom * Bernard Barton, ''A Widow's Tale, and Other Poems'' * Robert Bloomfield, ''The Poems of Robert Bloomfield'' * Edward Lytton Bulwer (later Bulwer-Lytton), published anonymously, ''O'Neill, or, The Rebel'' * John Clare, ''The Shepherd's Calendar; with Village Stories and Other Poems'' * George Darley, ''Sylvia; or, The May Queen'' * Reginald Heber, ''Hymns'' * Thomas Hood: ** ''The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies; Hero and Leander; Lycus the Centaur; and Other Poems'' ** ''Whims and Oddities in Prose and Verse'', second series, poetry and prose (see also ''Whims and Oddities'' 1826) * May Howitt, and William Howitt, ''The Desolation of Eyam; The Emigrant; A Tale of the American Woods, and Other Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1820 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *January 16 - ''Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery'' by "Northamptonshire peasant poet" John Clare is published in England by John Taylor * April 22 - Walter Scott is created 1st baronet of Abbotsford in the County of Roxburgh in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom * The Cambridge Apostles, an intellectual discussion group, is established at the University of Cambridge in England * John Keats begins showing worse signs of tuberculosis. On the suggestion of his doctors, he leaves London for Italy with his friend Joseph Severn and moves into a house on the Spanish Steps in Rome, where his health rapidly deteriorates. He will die in 1821. * William Wordsworth completes another major revision of ''The Prelude''. This revision was begun in 1819. His first version, in two parts, was done in 1798 and 1799. A second major revision, bringing the wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1842 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published in English United Kingdom * Robert Browning, '' Dramatic Lyrics'', including " My Last Duchess", "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" and " Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister"; the author's first collection of shorter poems (reprinted, with some revisions and omissions in ''Poems'' 1849; see also ''Bells and Pomegranates'' 1841, reprinted each year from 1843–1846) * Thomas Campbell, ''The Pilgrim of Glencoe, with Other Poems'' * Frederick William Faber, ''The Styrian Lake, and Other Poems'' * J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, ''The Nursery Rhymes of England'', anthology * Leigh Hunt, ''The Palfrey'' * Thomas Babington Macaulay, ''Lays of Ancient Rome'', including "Horatius" * Robert Montgomery, ''Luther'' * Alfred Tennyson, ''Poems'', including "Locksley Hall", "Morte d'Arthur", " Ulysses", "Lady Clara Vere de Vere", " The Two Voices", "The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (7 April 177023 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication '' Lyrical Ballads'' (1798). Wordsworth's '' magnum opus'' is generally considered to be '' The Prelude'', a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published by his wife in the year of his death, before which it was generally known as "the poem to Coleridge". Wordsworth was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850. Early life The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in what is now named Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland, (now in Cumbria), part of the scenic region in northwestern England known as the Lake District. William's sister, the poet and diarist Dorothy Wordsworth, to who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defence Of Poetry
"A Defence of Poetry" is an essay by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1821 and first published posthumously in 1840 in ''Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments'' by Edward Moxon in London. It contains Shelley's famous claim that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world". Background The essay was written in response to his friend Thomas Love Peacock's article " The Four Ages of Poetry", which had been published in 1820. Shelley wrote to the publishers Charles and James Ollier (who were also his own publishers): :I am enchanted with your ''Literary Miscellany'', although the last article has excited my polemical faculties so violently that the moment I get rid of my ophthalmia, I mean to set about an answer to it.... It is very clever, but I think, very false. To Peacock, Shelley wrote: :Your anathemas against poetry itself excited me to a sacred rage. . . . I had the greatest possible desire to break a lance with you ... in hono ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (; ; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel '' Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary's mother died less than a fortnight after giving birth to her. She was raised by her father, who provided her with a rich if informal education, encouraging her to adhere to his own anarchist political theories. When she was four, her father married a neighbour, Mary Jane Clairmont, with whom Mary came to have a troubled relationship. In 1814, Mary began a romance with one of her father's political followers, Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was already married. Together with her stepsister, Claire C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley ( ; 4 August 17928 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death and he became an important influence on subsequent generations of poets including Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, and W. B. Yeats. American literary critic Harold Bloom describes him as "a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem." Shelly's reputation fluctuated during the 20th century, but in recent decades he has achieved increasing critical acclaim for the sweeping momentum of his poetic imagery, his mastery of genres and verse forms, and the complex interplay of sceptical, idealist, and materialist ideas in his work. Among his best-known works are " Ozymandias" (1818), "O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
