1841 in poetry
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The year's at the spring,
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill-side's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in his Heaven -
All's right with the world!
— Robert Browning, Pippa Passes, published this year
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.[1]
- Victor Hugo is elected to the Académie Française, on his fifth attempt.[2]
Works published in English
United Kingdom
- Sarah Fuller Adams, Vivia Perpetua: A dramatic poem[3]
- 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";[3] anthology
- Thomas Moore, The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, in 10 volumes, published starting in 1840 and ending this year;[3] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Samuel Laman Blanchard Life and Literary Remains of L. E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon) including Castruccio Castracani (a 5-act tragedy in verse), The Female Picture Gallery (prose) and the poetry collection Subjects for Pictures
United States
- Ralph Waldo Emerson:
- William Davis Gallagher, editor, Selections from the Poetical Literature of the West, one of the earliest American regional poetry anthologies; includes poems by 38 writers in the West, including Gallagher's own very popular poem, "Miami Woods"[5]
- Charles Follen, Works, poetry and prose, published this year and in 1842[4]
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Ballads and other Poems, including "The Wreck of the Hesperus", "The Village Blacksmith", "Elcelsior" and "The Skeleton in Armor"[5]
- James Russell Lowell, A Year's Life
- Cornelius Mathews, Wakondah; The Master of Life, a narrative poem about prehistoric Native Americans[5]
- Frances Sargent Osgood, The Poetry of Flowers and the Flowers of Poetry[4]
- Adrien Emmanuel Rouquette, Les savanes[4]
- Lydia Howard Sigourney:
- Seba Smith, Powhatan[4]
Other in English
- Thomas Moore, The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, in 10 volumes, published starting in 1840 and ending this year;[3] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Standish O'Grady, The Emigrant, a long narrative poem, Irish-born Canadian[7]
Works published in other languages
- Mikhail Lermontov, The Demon: An Eastern Tale, Russia
- Frederik Paludan-Müller:
- Adam Homo, three-volume novel in verse, published starting this year to 1848, Denmark[8]
- Venus
- Alexander Pushkin, The Bronze Horseman, Russia
- Henrik Wergeland, Svalen ("The Swallow"), Norway
- José Zorrilla, Cantos del trovador, Spain
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 10 – Ina Donna Coolbrith (died 1928), American
- March 21 – Mathilde Blind ("Claude Lake"), born Mathilde Cohen (died 1896 in poetry), German-born English
- March 31 – Iosif Vulcan (died 1907), Romanian magazine editor, poet, playwright, novelist and cultural figure
- April 6 – Ivan Surikov (died 1898), Russian
- April 29 – Edward Rowland Sill (died 1887), American
- May 22 – Catulle Mendès (died 1909), French
- August 18 – Robert Williams Buchanan (died 1901), Scottish
- December 30 – Charles E. Carryl (died 1920), American
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 19 – Ulrika Widström (born 1764), Swedish poet and translator
- March 2 – George Dyer (born 1755), English classicist and writer
- May 20 – Joseph Blanco White (born 1775), Spanish-born English theologian and poet
- June 1 – Robert Allan (born 1774), Scottish weaver poet, in New York
- July 27 – Mikhail Lermontov (born 1814), Russian poet, dramatist, fiction writer and painter, in duel
- August 24 – Bjarni Thorarensen (born 1786), Icelandic poet and official
- September 16 – Thomas John Dibdin (born 1771), English playwright and songwriter
See also
- 19th century in poetry
- 19th century in literature
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- Victorian literature
- French literature of the 19th century
- Biedermeier era of German literature
- Golden Age of Russian Poetry (1800–1850)
- Young Germany (Junges Deutschland) a loose group of German writers from about 1830 to 1850
- List of poets
- Poetry
- List of poetry awards
Notes
- ↑ Sullivan, Mary Rose; Raymond, Meredith B., ed. (1983). The letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1836–1854. Waco: Armstrong Browning Library of Baylor University. ISBN 978-0-911459-00-5. Retrieved 2011-10-22. Virginia Woolf later fictionalises the life of the dog, making him the protagonist of her 1933 novel Flush: A Biography.
- ↑ Jones, Neal T., ed. (1984). A Book of Days for the Literary Year. New York; London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-01332-2.
- 1 2 3 4 Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- 1 2 3 4 Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
- ↑ Sigourney, Lydia Howard, [ Pocahontas, and Other Poems, title page], New YOrk: Harper & Brothers, retrieved via Making of America Books website, retrieved March 4, 2009
- ↑ Sorfleet, John R., "O'Grady, Standish", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
- ↑ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
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