1857 in poetry

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Commissioned with other Hungarian poets to write a poem of praise for a visit of Franz Joseph I of Austria to his country, János Arany instead produces the subversive ballad The Bards of Wales (A walesi bárdok), unpublished until 1863.

United Kingdom

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, dated this year but first published at the end of 1856

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, writing under the pen name "Owen Meredith", The Wanderer

Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Smith, Elder & Co., biography

Frederick Locker Lampson, London Lyrics (12 re-editions to 1893)

Denis MacCarthy, Underglimpses, and Other Poems

Theodore Martin, translated from Adam Oehlenschlager, Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Lamp

United States

William Allen Butler, Nothing to Wear, published posthumously (first published anonymously in Harper's Weekly); the poem sold well, despite the financial panic; when a woman declared she was the author, the resulting controversy helped sales (see Mortimer Thomson's poem describing the controversy, below)

Paul Hamilton Hayne, Sonnets and Other Poems

Francis Scott Key, Poems

James Lawson, Poems

Alexander Beaufort Meek, Songs and Poems of the South

Mortimer Thomson, writing under the pen name "Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B." (Without the pen name's abbreviations: "Queer Kritter Philander Doesticks, Perfect Brick"), Nothing to Say: A Slight Slap at Mobocratic Snobbery, Which Has "Nothing to Do" with "Nothing to Wear" on the controversy over the authorship of William Allen Butler's poem Nothing to Wear; Thomson was offered a dollar a line for a poem on the subject, submitted an 800-line poem and was paid in full; illustrated by John McLenan; the book sold well

Richard Henry Stoddard, Songs of Summer

John Greenleaf Whittier:

The Sycamores

The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Other in English

Charles Heavysege, Saul: A Drama in Three Parts, first edition (second edition, 1869); Canada

James Lionel Michael, Songs without Music, lyrics, Australia

Works published in other languages

Théodore de Banville, Odes funambulesques, France

Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal ("Flowers of Evil"), France

Giosuè Carducci, Rime, Italy

Rosalia de Castro, La Flor, Galician Spanish poet, writing in Spanish

Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Kalevipoeg, Estonia, revised version begins first publication

Jan Neruda, Hřbitovní kvítí ("Cemetery Flowers"), Czech

Births

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

March 17 – Benjamin Franklin King, Jr. (died 1894), American poet

April 11 – John Davidson (died 1909), Scottish poet and playwright

April 17 – Jane Barlow (died 1917), Irish poet and novelist

June 13 – Hubert Newman Wigmore Church (died 1932), Australian

September 22 – James Hebblethwaite (died 1921), Australian

Undated – Kaikobad (কায়কোবাদ) (also spelt "Kaykobad" and also known as Mohakobi Kaikobad ("Kaikobad the great poet"), pen name of Kazem Al Quereshi (died 1951), Bengali poet

Deaths

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February 9 – Dionysios Solomos Διονύσιος Σολωμός (born 1798), Greek poet best known for the Hymn to Liberty, the first two stanzas of which became the Greek national anthem

March 11 – Manuel José Quintana (born 1772), Spanish

April 11 – John Davidson (died 1909), Scottish poet and playwright

May 2 – Alfred de Musset (born 1810), French poet and novelist

June 25 – Isabella Kelly (born 1759), Scottish-born novelist and poet

October 14 – Alexander Laing (born 1787), Scottish poet

November 26 – Joseph von Eichendorff (born 1788), German poet and novelist

December 13 – Richard Furness, "The Poet of Eyam" (born 1791), English

Undated – Anna Ehrenström (born 1786), Swedish poet

References

1857 in poetry Wikipedia

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