1826 in poetry

Events

• June 2 – The Irvine Burns Club is formed at the Milne's Inn under the presidency of Dr. John MacKenzie, who had known the Scottish poet Robert Burns.

Works published

[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]

• Eliza Acton, Poems, Ipswich: R. Deck
• Thomas Aird, Murtzoufle: a tragedy
• Anna Laetitia Barbauld, A Legacy for Young Ladies, poetry and prose, edited by Lucy Aikin, posthumous
• George Borrow, Romantic Ballads
• Elizabeth Barrett (later Browning), published anonymously, An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems
• James Hogg, Queen Hynde
• Thomas Hood, Whims and Oddities, poetry and prose (see also, Whims and Oddities 1827)
• Henry Hart Milman, Anne Boleyn
• Amelia Opie, The Black Man's Lament; or, How to Make Sugar
• Robert Millhouse, The Song of the Patriot: sonnets and songs.
• Ann Radcliffe, Gaston de Blondeville; Keeping Festival in Ardenne; St. Alban's Abbey, poetry and prose, with a memoir by Thomas Noon Talfourd; posthumously published
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, Miscellaneous and Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, unauthorized; parts reissued the same year as Miscellaneous Poems

[[American poetry|United States]]

• William Cullen Bryant, "I Cannot Forget with What Fervid Devotion", poem, first published this year, revised in 1832, possibly written as early as 1815
• Samuel Woodworth, Melodies, Duets, Songs, and Ballads, including "The Bucket" (first published in 1817 and first published in a collection in 1818); the poem was set to music and became popular as "The Old Oaken Bucket"); another poem in the collection is "The Hunters of Kentucky", a ballad praising those who helped General Andrew Jackson win the Battle of New Orleans, United States

Other

• Ivan Gundulić (died 1638), Osman, an epic, first published (incomplete; oldest existing copy is from 1651), describes the 1621 Polish victory over the Turks at Chocim (Khotin, Ukraine), Croatia
• Wilhelm Hauff, editor, contributor, Kriegs- und Volks-Lieder ("War and Folk Songs"), anthology of poetry, including two of his own folk songs, "Reiters Morgengesang" ("Morning Song of the Rider") and "Soldatenliebe" ("Soldier's Love"), Germany
• Heinrich Heine, Germany
  • Die Heimkehr ("The Homecoming")
  • Die Nordsee ("The North Sea", first cycle)
• Friedrich Hölderlin, Gedichte, the author's first collected edition, Germany
• Victor Hugo, Odes et Ballades, France
• Adam Mickiewicz, Crimean Sonnets, inspired by a trip to Odessa during his exile in Russia, Poland
• Amable Tastu, Poésies, France
• Charles Tompson, Wild Notes from the Lyre of a Native Minstrel, the first volume of poetry written by a native-born Australian
• Alfred de Vigny, Poèmes antiques et modernes (expanded edition, 1829), France

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• February 27 – Cynthia Roberts Gorton, American poet and author (died 1894)
• March 12 – Robert Lowry, American hymnodist (died 1899)
• April 20 – Dinah Craik (born "Dinah Maria Mulock", also often credited as "Miss Mulock"), English novelist and poet (died 1887)
• July 4 – Stephen Foster, American songwriter (died 1864)

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• April 3 – Reginald Heber (born 1783), Church of England bishop, remembered chiefly as a hymn-writer
• June 23 – John Taylor (born 1750), English businessman, poet and hymn-writer
• June 27 – Mary Leadbeater (born 1758), Irish poet and writer
• July 25 (July 13 O.S.) – Kondraty Ryleyev (born 1795), Russian poet and revolutionary, hanged
• October 3 – Jens Baggesen (born 1764), Danish
• December 26 – Schack von Staffeldt (born 1769), Danish poet and Amtmann
• December 31 – William Gifford (born 1756), English satiric poet and literary editor
• William Glen (born 1789), Scottish

Notes

References

1. "Irvine Burns Club".
2. Web page titled [http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp/Works/ActoEPoems.htm "Poems. Acton, Eliza, 1799-1859."] {{Webarchive. link. (2010-05-07 , at the "University Library/ University of California, Davis" website, retrieved April 16, 2010)
3. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
4. Carruth, Gorton, ''The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates'', ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
5. 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
6. Web page titled [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/433980/Osman "Osman"], Encyclopædia Britannica Online website, retrieved February 22, 2009
7. Web page titled [http://worldroots.com/brigitte/hauff1.htm "Wilhelm Hauff"] {{Webarchive. link. (2008-07-05 by "Erich P. Hofacker, Jr. - University of Michigan", at Worldroots website, retrieved February 22, 2009)
8. 978-0-14-042385-3
9. Magnusson, Magnus, ''Chambers Biographical Dictionary'', "VIGNY, Alfred Victor, Comte de" article, p 1510, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 1990, {{ISBN. 0-550-16040-X
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