1844 in poetry explained
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Works published in English
- Isabella Banks, Ivy Leaves, including "Neglected Wife"
- William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect[1]
- Frances Browne, The Star of Atteghei; The Vision of Schwartz, and Other Poems[1]
- Elizabeth Barrett (later Elizabeth Barrett Browning), Poems, including "A Drama of Exile" and ballads[1]
- Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, The Two Destinies[1]
- Frederick William Faber, Sir Lancelot[1]
- Leigh Hunt, What is Poetry?, critical essay[2]
- Monckton Milnes, Palm Leaves
- Coventry Patmore, Poems[1]
- Lydia Maria Child – "Over the River and Through the Wood"[3]
- James Freeman Clarke, Hymn Book for the Church of the Disciples (expanded edition, 1852)[4]
- Christopher Pearse Cranch, Poems[4]
- Samuel Henry Dickson, Poems, including his popular "I Sigh for the Land of the Cypress and Pine"[5]
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet an essay of literary criticism in Essays, Second Series
- Rufus Wilmot Griswold, The Poets and Poetry of England in the Nineteenth Century, anthology
- Charles Fenno Hoffman, The Echo[4]
- William H. C. Hosmer, Yonnonidio, or Warriors of the Genesee[4]
- Sarah Anna Lewis, Records of the Heart[4]
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, editor, Poets and Poetry of Europe, anthology[6]
- James Russell Lowell, Poems[4]
- Epes Sargent, The Light of the Lighthouse and Other Poems
- Lydia Maria Child, Flowers for Children, Volume 2, including "Over the River and Through the Woods", which was later set to music
- Bayard Taylor, Ximena; or, The Battle of the Sierra Morena and Other Poems[4]
Works published in other languages
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 8 - Richard Watson Gilder (died 1909), American poet and editor
- March 14 - Arthur O'Shaughnessy (died 1881), English poet and herpetologist
- March 30 - Paul Verlaine (died 1896), French Symbolistt poet
- March 31 - Andrew Lang (died 1912), Scottish writer
- June 28 - John Boyle O'Reilly (died 1890), Irish-born American poet, journalist and fiction writer
- July 21 - Matilda Maranda Crawford (died 1920), American-Canadian poet, writer, correspondent
- July 28 - Gerard Manley Hopkins (died 1889), English poet and Jesuit priest
- October 12 - George Washington Cable (died 1925), American novelist
- October 13 - Ernest Myers (died 1921), English poet and classicist
- October 23
- November 12 - Ismail Merathi (died 1917), Indian poet from Mughal and British era[8]
- November 21 - Ada Cambridge (died 1926), English writer and poet living in Australia after 1870
- Date not known:
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
See also
Notes and References
- Book: Cox, Michael. The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. 2004. 0-19-860634-6. registration.
- Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce, Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830), p 98, Franklin, Burt, 1971,, retrieved via Google Books on February 13, 2010
- Web site: Lydia Maria Child . Wayland Historical Society . November 20, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150930230945/http://wayhistsoc.home.comcast.net/~wayhistsoc/whs/Lydia_Maria_Child/lydia_maria_child.htm . September 30, 2015 .
- Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602 - 1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- Watson, Charles S., "Samuel Henry Dickson" article in Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary,, edited by Robert Bain, Joseph M. Flora and Louis D. Rubin, Jr., p 6, Louisiana State University Press, 1979, retrieved from Google Books on September 4, 2011
- Calhoun, Charles C. Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004.
- Cook, Roger F., A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine, "Introduction", Boydell & Brewer, 2002,, retrieved via Google Books on April 2, 2009
- Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995,published by Sahitya Akademi,, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp 231 - 255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009
- Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009