Overview of the events of 1839 in poetry
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Events
William Wordsworth Margaret Gillies ' 1839 original
Works published
Philip James Bailey , Festus , reprinted in numerous editions up to 1889 , when the 50th anniversary edition was published[ 1] [ 2] Thomas De Quincey , biographical essays on the Lake Poets in the series Recollections of the Lake Poets Tait's Edinburgh Magazine Recollections 1834 , 1835 , 1840 ):
"William Wordsworth ," January, February, and April
"William Wordsworth and Robert Southey ," July
"Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge ," August
"Recollections of Grasmere," September
"The Saracen's Head," December William Gaskell , Temperance Rhymes Henry Hart Milman , Poetical Works [ 1] Percy Bysshe Shelley , posthumous works (died 1822 ):
The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in four volumes is published from January to May, edited by Mary Shelley , with her preface and notes, and dedicated to the Shelleys' son, Percy Florence Shelley; London: Edward Moxon (reprinted in 1847 [ 1] England in 1819 The 'Pearl Poet ', Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Middle English alliterative romance first published complete, in Syr Gawayne: a collection of ancient romance-poems by Scottish and English authors relating to that celebrated knight of the Round Table edited by Frederic Madden for the Bannatyne Club [ 3] [ 4] Ralph Waldo Emerson :
"Each and All", a poem calling Nature "the perfect whole"[ 5]
"The Humble-Bee", praising the "yellow breeched philosopher"[ 5]
"The Rhodora"[ 5] Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Voices of the Night , the author's first volume of original poetry; includes "A Psalm of Life" and "Light of the Stars"[ 5] Edgar Allan Poe , The Haunted Palace , an allegory of mental states; considered one of the author's best poems, written at a time when his finances forced him to concentrate on stories rather than poetry; originally published in the Baltimore Museum and later included in "The Fall of the House of Usher"[ 5] William Gilmore Simms , Southern Passages and Pictures , lyrical, sentimental and descriptive poems; New York[ 6] Jones Very , Essays and Poems , prose and poetry[ 7]
Other
Bjarni Thorarensen , Íslands minni , Iceland Cláudio Manuel da Costa , Vila Rica , posthumous, Brazil Girolamo de Rada , Serafina Topia , Arbëresh Marceline Desbordes-Valmore , Pauvres Fleurs , France [ 8] Gooru Churun Dutt , School Hours or Poems Composed at School , Calcutta: T. B. Scott and Co.; India , Indian poetry in English [ 9]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 1 - James Ryder Randall (died 1908 ), American
February 2 - Helen Marr Hurd (died 1909 ), American
February 7 - William Little (died 1916 ), English-born Australian
February 9 - Laura Redden Searing (died 1923 ), deaf American poet and journalist
March 16 - John Butler Yeats (died 1922 ), Irish artist and poet, father of W. B. Yeats
April 18 - Henry Kendall (died 1882 ), Australian
June 21 - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (died 1909 ), Brazilian
August 3 - Helen Adelia Manville (died 1912 ), American poet and litterateur
August 4 - Walter Pater (died 1894 ), English writer on aesthetics
August 25 - Bret Harte (died 1902 ), American writer of fiction and poetry
December 30 - John Todhunter (died 1916 ), Irish poet and playwright
Date not known - Velutheri Kesavan Vaidyar (died 1897 ), Indian , Malayalam -language poet[ 10]
Deaths
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See also
Notes
^ a b c Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature ISBN 0-19-860634-6 ^ Birley, Robert (1962). "Philip James Bailey, Festus ". Sunk Without Trace: some forgotten masterpieces reconsidered 172–208 .^ Turville-Petre, Thorlac (1977). The Alliterative Revival . Woodbridge: Brewer. pp. 126– 129. ISBN 0-85991-019-9 ^ Burrow, J. A. (1971). Ricardian Poetry . London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 4– 5. ISBN 0-7100-7031-4 ^ a b c d e Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7 , retrieved via Google Books
^ Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "Simms, William Gilmore" Encyclopædia Britannica 123– 124.^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983 , 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
^ Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950 ISBN 978-0-14-042385-3
^ Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English ISBN 0-391-03286-0 , ISBN 978-0-391-03286-6 ), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
^ 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
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