1847 in poetry

Events

• April
  • Robert Browning settles with his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Florence
  • Young Romanian poet Vasile Alecsandri's beloved, Elena Negri, dies in his arms onboard a ship in the Mediterranean; he channels his mourning into a poem, "Steluța" ('Little Star')
• Between July and October – Rev. Henry Francis Lyte composes the hymn "Abide with Me" a few months before his death
• September 16 – William Shakespeare's house of birth in Stratford-upon-Avon in England is bought by the United Shakespeare Company for preservation; this year also, Schiller's house in Weimar is opened to the public as a museum

Works published in English

[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]

• Edwin Atherstone, The Fall of Nineveh, enlarged (from the 1828 edition) to 30 books
• Richard Harris Barham, writing under the pen name "Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.", The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels, verse fiction; illustrated by George Cruikshank and John Leech (see also Ingoldsby Legends 1840, 1842)
• Caroline Clive, writing under the pen name "V", The Queen's Ball
• Walter Savage Landor, The Hellenics of Walter Savage Landor
• Mary Fawler Maude, "Thine for ever! God of love"
• Christina Rossetti, Verses by Christina G. Rossetti
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Mary Shelley; posthumous
• Robert Southey and Caroline Southey, Robin Hood
• Alfred Tennyson's The Princess, including "Tears, Idle Tears"

[[American poetry|United States]]

• William Ellery Channing, Poems, Second Series
• Philip Pendleton Cooke, Froissart Ballads, and Other Poems, Philadelphia: Cary and Hart
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems
• Fitz-Greene Halleck, The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck
• Charles Fenno Hoffman, Love's Calendar; Lays of the Hudson and Other Poems
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
• Epes Sargent, Songs of the Sea With Other Poems
• William Wetmore Story, Poems

Works published in other languages

• Heinrich Heine, Atta Troll, German long narrative poem on political and cultural topics
• Raja Ali Haji or his sister Saleha, Syair Abdul Muluk, Malay syair
• Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Prince-Bishop of Montenegro, The Mountain Wreath (Горски вијенац, Gorski vijenac), Serbian epic verse drama

Births

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

• January 8 – Matei Donici (died 1921), Bessarabian Romanian poet and Imperial Russian Army general
• February 10 – Nabinchandra Sen নবীনচন্দ্র সেন (died 1909), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and writer
• April 7 – Jens Peter Jacobsen (died 1885), Danish poet
• September 22 –- Alice Meynell, née Thompson (died 1922), English poet, writer, editor, critic and suffragist
• December 1 – Julia A. Moore, the "Sweet Singer of Michigan" (died 1920), American poetaster
• Date not known – Brij Raj (died 1919), Indian, Dogri-Pahadi Brajbhasha poet

Deaths

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

• July 21 – William Shepherd (born 1768), English dissenting minister, politician, poet and writer
• September 10 – Richard Henry Wilde (born 1789), Irish-born American lawyer, politician and poet
• November 20 – Henry Francis Lyte (born 1793), Scottish-born English Anglican divine and hymn-writer
• December 30 – Sima Milutinović Sarajlija (born 1791), Bosnian–Serbian poet, hajduk, translator, historian, philologist, diplomat and adventurer
• Date not known – Liang Desheng (born 1771), Chinese poet and writer during the Qing Dynasty

Notes

References

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2. (2006). "Penguin Pocket On This Day". Penguin Reference Library.
3. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
4. (1903). "Studies of Familiar Hymns". Westminster.
5. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
6. Rubin, Louis D., Jr., ''The Literary South'', John Wiley & Sons, 1979, {{ISBN. 0-471-04659-0
7. 978-1-57113-207-9, retrieved via Google Books on April 2, 2009
8. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
9. 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008