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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 Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (; Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States, and of American literature. Poe was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story, and considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction. Poe is the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. Poe was born in Boston, the second child of actors David and Elizabeth "Eliza" Poe. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and when his mother died the following year, Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia. They never formally adopted him, but he was with them well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip James Bailey
Philip James Bailey (22 April 1816 – 6 September 1902) was an English spasmodic poet, best known as the author of ''Festus''. Life Bailey was born on 22 April 1816 in Nottingham, the only son of Thomas Bailey by his first wife, Mary Taylor. He was brought up on the poetry of Lord Byron. Educated in Nottingham, he was tutored in classics by Benjamin Carpenter, a Unitarian minister. Aged 15, he matriculated at Glasgow University. Dropping the idea of becoming a Presbyterian minister, he began in 1833 to study law in a solicitor's office in London. On 26 April 1834 he entered Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the bar on 7 May 1840, but never practised law. In 1836 Bailey retired to his father's house at Old Basford, near Nottingham, to write. In 1856 he received a civil list pension in recognition of his literary work. In 1864 he moved to Jersey, and travelled. In 1876 he returned to England, settling first at Lee near Ilfracombe, and in 1885 at Blackheath. Finally he retired to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persian Poetry
Persian literature ( fa, ادبیات فارسی, Adabiyâte fârsi, ) comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. It spans over two-and-a-half millennia. Its sources have been within Greater Iran including present-day Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Caucasus, and Turkey, regions of Central Asia (such as Tajikistan) and South Asia where the Persian language has historically been either the native or official language. For example, Rumi, one of the best-loved Persian poets, born in Balkh (in modern-day Afghanistan) or Wakhsh (in modern-day Tajikistan), wrote in Persian and lived in Konya (in modern-day Turkey), at that time the capital of the Seljuks in Anatolia. The Ghaznavids conquered large territories in Central and South Asia and adopted Persian as their court language. There is thus Persian literature from Iran, Mesopotamia, Azerbaijan, the wider Caucasus, Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Tajikista ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Costello
Louisa Stuart Costello (9 October 1799 – 24 April 1870) was an Anglo-Irish writer on travel and French history, said to have been born either in Ireland or Sussex. Life and work Costello lived in Paris, France, near the River Seine (according to her death certificate). She had no true home, but went from place to place staying with friends and acquaintances. She and her brother Dudley Costello, also well known for travel writing, promoted the copying of illuminated manuscripts. By the age of 15 she had become a proficient artist and later her earnings from miniature painting were enough to support her mother and to keep her brother while he attended Sandhurst. She wrote over 100 texts, articles, poems and songs, and knew such people as Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, Thomas Moore. She was also a historian, painter and novelist. Her father, Colonel James Francis Costello, died in April 1814 while fighting against Napoleon. Among Costello's published work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Cooper (poet)
Thomas Cooper (20 March 1805 – 15 July 1892) was an English poet and a leading Chartist. His prison rhyme the ''Purgatory of Suicides'' (1845) runs to 944 stanzas. He also wrote novels and in later life religious texts. He was self-educated and worked as a shoemaker, then a preacher, a schoolmaster and a journalist, before taking up Chartism in 1840. He was seen as a passionate, determined and fiery man. Early years Cooper was born in Leicester, the son of a working dyer. After his father's death, his mother began business as a dyer and fancy box-maker at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, and young Cooper was apprenticed to a shoemaker. In spite of hardships and difficulties, he managed to educate himself, and at the age of 23, having been a shoemaker in Gainsborough, managed to open a school there in 1827. He had moved to Lincoln by 1834 and married Susannah Chaloner, a cousin of George Boole in that year. His wife died in 1880. He joined the Lincoln Mechanics' Institute in 1834 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1846 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *c. May 22 – The Brontë sisters' first published work, the collection '' Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell'', is issued in London. It sells just two copies in the first year. * September 12 – Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning marry privately in St Marylebone Parish Church, London, departing for the continent a week later. Works published in English United Kingdom * William Barnes, ''Poems, Partly of Rural Life'' * Robert Bell, ed., ''Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England'' * Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë, '' Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell'' * Robert Browning, ''Luria: a Tragedy; a Soul's Tragedy'', volume 8 of ''Bells and Pomegranates'' (see also ''Bells and Pomegranates'' 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, and 1845) * John Burgon, ''Petra: a poem, to which a few short poems are now a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1844 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 * Isabella Banks, ''Ivy Leaves'', including "Neglected Wife" * William Barnes, ''Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect'' * Frances Browne, ''The Star of Atteghei; The Vision of Schwartz, and Other Poems'' * Elizabeth Barrett (later Elizabeth Barrett Browning), ''Poems'', including "A Drama of Exile" and ballads * Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, ''The Two Destinies'' * Frederick William Faber, ''Sir Lancelot'' * Leigh Hunt, ''What is Poetry?'', critical essay * Monckton Milnes, ''Palm Leaves'' * Coventry Patmore, ''Poems'' United States * Lydia Maria Child – "Over the River and Through the Wood" * James Freeman Clarke, ''Hymn Book for the Church of the Disciples'' (expanded edition, 1852)Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1843 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * April 4 – William Wordsworth accepts the office of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (following the death of Robert Southey on March 21) on being assured that it is regarded as a purely honorific position. Works published United Kingdom * R. S. Hawker, ''Reeds Shaken with the Wind'' * Thomas Hood, "The Song of the Shirt", a poem (published in the Christmas issue of ''Punch'') * Richard Henry Horne, ''Orion: An epic poem'' United States * William Ellery Channing (poet), ''Poems'', published at the expense of the author's friend Samuel Gray Ward; the volume is admired by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau but condemned by Edgar Allan Poe in "Our Amateur Poets", an essay in ''Graham's''Burt, Daniel S.''The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times'' Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ... [...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 Vision o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1841 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *January – Elizabeth Barrett Browning is given her golden cocker spaniel "Flush" by writer Mary Russell Mitford. *July 20 – English "peasant poet" absconds from an asylum for the insane at High Beach in Essex and walks 90 miles (140 km) to his home at Northborough in the east midlands. In late December he is admitted to Northampton General Lunatic Asylum where he will spend the remaining 23 years of his life. * Victor Hugo is elected to the Académie Française, on his fifth attempt. Works published in English United Kingdom * Sarah Fuller Adams, ''Vivia Perpetua: A dramatic poem'' * Robert Browning, ''Pippa Passes'', verse drama * W. J. Fox, ''Hymns and Anthems'', 150 numbered hymns without music, 13 by Sarah Fuller Adams, including "Nearer, my God, to thee"; anthology * Thomas Moore, ''The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore'', in 10 volum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1849 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January - "What is Poetry? And What Is It Good For?" essay by John Neal published in '' Sartain's Union Magazine'' * November 14 - A public festival is held in Denmark to celebrate the 70th birthday of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger * '' La Tribune des Peuples'', a pan-European romantic nationalist periodical, is published between March and November by Adam Mickiewicz. Works published United Kingdom * Cecil Frances Alexander, ''Moral Songs''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Matthew Arnold, writing under the pen name "A", ''The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems'' * William Edmondstoune Aytoun, ''Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, and Other Poems'' * Robert Browning, ''Poems'', his first collected edition * Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, ''King Arthur'', first published in three parts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost Leader (poem)
"The Lost Leader" is an 1845 poem by Robert Browning first published in his book ''Dramatic Romances and Lyrics''. It berates William Wordsworth for what Browning considered his desertion of the liberal cause, and his lapse from his high idealism. More generally, it is an attack on any liberal leader who has deserted his cause. It is one of Browning's "best known, if not actually best, poems". Text Context From an early age, Browning (b. 1812) had been an admirer of the (early) works of Wordsworth (b. 1770). As observes, Browning had sought to become "Wordsworth's radical successor", and his attitude towards Wordsworth was "a test model of a strong poet's quest for self-definition against an overbearing predecessor". The poem's lines "We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him, / ... / Made him our pattern to live and to die!" refer to this. However, when he began to perceive Wordsworth sliding into conservative politics and the Church of England, he became increasi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
