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1841 in poetry

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The year's at the spring,
 And day's at the morn;
 Morning's at seven;
 The hill-side's dew-pearled;
 The lark's on the wing;
 The snail's on the thorn;
 God's in his Heaven -
 All's right with the world!

Contents

— Robert Browning, Pippa Passes, published this year

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

Events

  • January – Elizabeth Barrett Browning is given her golden cocker spaniel "Flush" by writer Mary Russell Mitford.
  • Victor Hugo is elected to the Académie Française, on his fifth attempt.

    • United Kingdom

  • Sarah Fuller Adams, Vivia Perpetua: A dramatic poem
  • Robert Browning, Pippa Passes, verse drama
  • W. J. Fox, Hymns and Anthems, 150 numbered hymns without music, 13 by Sarah Fuller Adams, including "Nearer, my God, to thee"; anthology
  • Thomas Moore, The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, in 10 volumes, published starting in 1840 and ending this year; Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
  • Samuel Laman Blanchard Life and Literary Remains of L. E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon) including Castruccio Castracani (a 5-act tragedy in verse), The Female Picture Gallery (prose) and the poetry collection Subjects for Pictures

    • United States

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson:
  • "Compensation"
  • "The Sphinx", first published in The Dial this year, it was later included in Emerson's Poems 1847
  • William Davis Gallagher, editor, Selections from the Poetical Literature of the West, one of the earliest American regional poetry anthologies; includes poems by 38 writers in the West, including Gallagher's own very popular poem, "Miami Woods"
  • Charles Follen, Works, poetry and prose, published this year and in 1842
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Ballads and other Poems, including "The Wreck of the Hesperus", "The Village Blacksmith", "Elcelsior" and "The Skeleton in Armor"
  • James Russell Lowell, A Year's Life
  • Cornelius Mathews, Wakondah; The Master of Life, a narrative poem about prehistoric Native Americans
  • Frances Sargent Osgood, The Poetry of Flowers and the Flowers of Poetry
  • Adrien Emmanuel Rouquette, Les savanes
  • Lydia Howard Sigourney:
  • Pocahontas, and Other Poems, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Poems, Religious and Elegiac
  • Seba Smith, Powhatan

    • Other in English

  • Thomas Moore, The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, in 10 volumes, published starting in 1840 and ending this year; Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
  • Standish O'Grady, The Emigrant, a long narrative poem, Irish-born Canadian

    • Works published in other languages

  • Mikhail Lermontov, The Demon: An Eastern Tale, Russia
  • Frederik Paludan-Müller:
  • Adam Homo, three-volume novel in verse, published starting this year to 1848, Denmark
  • Venus
  • Alexander Pushkin, The Bronze Horseman, Russia
  • Henrik Wergeland, Svalen ("The Swallow"), Norway
  • José Zorrilla, Cantos del trovador, Spain

    • Births

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

  • March 10 – Ina Donna Coolbrith (died 1928), American
  • March 21 – Mathilde Blind ("Claude Lake"), born Mathilde Cohen (died 1896 in poetry), German-born English
  • March 31 – Iosif Vulcan (died 1907), Romanian magazine editor, poet, playwright, novelist and cultural figure
  • April 6 – Ivan Surikov (died 1898), Russian
  • April 29 – Edward Rowland Sill (died 1887), American
  • May 22 – Catulle Mendès (died 1909), French
  • August 18 – Robert Williams Buchanan (died 1901), Scottish
  • December 30 – Charles E. Carryl (died 1920), American

    • Deaths

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

  • February 19 – Ulrika Widström (born 1764), Swedish poet and translator
  • March 2 – George Dyer (born 1755), English classicist and writer
  • May 20 – Joseph Blanco White (born 1775), Spanish-born English theologian and poet
  • June 1 – Robert Allan (born 1774), Scottish weaver poet, in New York
  • July 27 – Mikhail Lermontov (born 1814), Russian poet, dramatist, fiction writer and painter, in duel
  • August 24 – Bjarni Thorarensen (born 1786), Icelandic poet and official
  • September 16 – Thomas John Dibdin (born 1771), English playwright and songwriter

    • References

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