1853 in poetry explained

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• October 27  - English poet Alfred Tennyson settles at Farringford House on the Isle of Wight.^[1]

Works published in English

United Kingdom

• Mrs. Cecil Frances Alexander, Narratyve Hymns for Village Schools^[2]
• Matthew Arnold, Poems: a New Edition, the first collected edition of the author's poems; known as Poems: First Series (see also 1855);^[2] including "Sobrab and Rustum" and "The Scholar Gipsy"
• R. D. Blackmore, writing under the pen name "Melanter", Poems by Melanter^[2]
• Martha Browne, (a.k.a. Mattie Griffith) Poems
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems (see also Poems 1844, 1850, 1856)^[2]
• Caroline Clive, writing under the pen name "V", The Morlas^[2]
• Sydney Dobell, Balder^[2]
• Coventry Patmore, Tamerton Church-Tower (see also 1878)^[2]
• Alexander Smith, Poems, Scottish poet

United States

• Thomas Holley Chivers:
  • Atlanta; or, the True Blessed Island of Poesy, a Paul Epic
  • Memoralia; or, Phials of Amber Full of the Tears of Love^[3]
  • Virginalia; or, Songs of My Summer Nights^[3]
• Samuel Longfellow, Thalatta: A Book for the Sea-side, compiled with Thomas Wentworth Higginson^[3]
• Lydia Huntley Sigourney, The Faded Hope^[3]
• William Gilmore Simms, Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, in two volumes, Charleston, South Carolina: John Russell^[4]
• Sarah Helen Whitman, Hours of Life^[3]
• John Greenleaf Whittier, The Chapel of the Hermits^[3]

Other

• Peter John Allan (died 1848), Poetical Remains of Peter John Allan, Esq., Canadian poet published in London
• Charles Harpur, The Bushrangers: a Play in Five Acts, and other Poems, Australia

Works published in other languages

• Hilario Ascasubi, Aniceto el Gallo, Argentina
• Álvares de Azevedo, Lira dos Vinte Anos, Brazil (posthumous)
• Paul Heyse, Lieder aus Sorrent ("Songs of Sorrento"), Germany
• Victor Hugo, Les Châtiments, France^[5]
• Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Kalevipoeg, Estonia (suppressed due to censorship)

Births

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

• January 28 (O.S. January 16) – Vladimir Solovyov, Russian philosopher and poet (died 1900)
• February 18 – Ernest Fenollosa, American (died 1908)
• October 4 – Jane Maria Read, American poet and teacher (year of death unknown)

Deaths

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

• February 3  - August Kopisch, German poet and painter (born 1799)
• April 28  - Ludwig Tieck, German (born 1773)
• October 27  - Maria White Lowell, American (born 1821)
• December 2  - Amelia Opie, English novelist, writer and poet (born 1769)
• Dayaram, Indian, Gujarati-language poet (born 1757)^[6]

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
• Poetry

Notes and References

1. Book: Pinion, F. B.. 1853. A Tennyson Chronology. registration. Basingstoke. Macmillan. 1990. 0-333-46020-0. 66.
2. Book: Cox, Michael. The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. 2004. 0-19-860634-6. registration.
3. Book: Ludwig, Richard M. . Clifford A. Nault, Jr. . Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983. registration . 1986. New York. Oxford University Press.
4. Web site: William Gilmore Simms, 1806-1870  - Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic.... Documenting the American South. 2009-05-29.
5. Book: Rees, William. The Penguin Book of French Poetry: 1820-1950. Penguin. 1992. 978-0-14-042385-3.
6. Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996,, retrieved December 10, 2008