1843 in poetry

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

[[English poetry|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

[[American poetry|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
• Thomas Dunn English, "Ben Bolt", a popular ballad written for the New York Mirror and later set to music numerous times
• William Lloyd Garrison, Sonnets
• James Russell Lowell, Miscellaneous Poems
• Cornelius Mathews, Poems on Man in His Various Aspects under the American Republic
• William Gilmore Simms, Donna Florida, a verse tale; Charleston
• James Gates Percival, The Dream of a Day
• John Pierpont, The Anti-Slavery Poems of John Pierpont
• Elizabeth Oakes Smith, The Sinless Child and Other Poems, acclaimed by critics, including Edgar Allan Poe
• John Greenleaf Whittier, Lays of My Home and Other Poems, regional poetry, including "The Merrimack", "The Funeral Tree of the Sokokis", "The Ballad of Cassandra Southwick" and "Massachusetts to Virginia"
• Nathaniel Parker Willis:
  • The Sacred Poems
  • Poems of Passion
  • The Lady Jane and Other Poems

Other

• Hilario Ascasubi, El gaucho Jacinto Cielo con doce números, Argentina
• Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Bouquets et prières, France
• Christian Winther, Til Een ("To Someone"); see also revised edition 1849; Denmark
• Gonçalves Dias, "Canção do exílio", Brazil
• Mikhail Lermontov, "Valerik", Russia, posthumously in the anthology Dawn
• Betty Paoli, Nach dem Gewitter ("After the Storm"), Austria

Births

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

• February 24 – Violet Fane, pen name of Lady Mary Currie, née Mary Montgomerie Lamb (died 1905), English novelist, poet and essayist
• May 3 – Edward Dowden (died 1913), Irish-born poet and critic
• August 19 – Charles Montagu Doughty (died 1926), English poet, writer and traveller
• December 7 – Helena Nyblom, née Roed (died 1926), Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales
• December 21 – Thomas Bracken (died 1898), Irish-born New Zealander
• December 24 (December 12 O.S.) – Lydia Koidula, born Lydia Jannsen (died 1886), Estonian
• Undated – Dimitrios Paparrigopoulos (died 1873), Greek

Deaths

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

• January 11 – Francis Scott Key (born 1779), American lawyer, author, and amateur poet who wrote the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner"
• March 21 – Robert Southey (born 1774), English Poet Laureate
• June 6 – Friedrich Hölderlin (born 1770), German lyric poet
• July 9 – Washington Allston, 63 (born 1779), American poet and painter
• December 11 - Casimir Delavigne (born 1793), French poet and dramatist

Notes

References

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7. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
8. Web page titled [https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/AmPo1/AmPo.bib.html "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography"] at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009