1853 in poetry
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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
- 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
- Thomas Holley Chivers:
- 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
- ^ Pinion, F. B. (1990). "1853". A Tennyson Chronology. Basingstoke: Macmillan. p. 66. ISBN 0-333-46020-0.
- ^ a b c d e f g Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ a b c d e f Ludwig, Richard M.; Clifford A. Nault, Jr. (1986). Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983. New York: Oxford University Press.
- ^ "William Gilmore Simms, 1806-1870 – Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic..." Documenting the American South. Retrieved 2009-05-29.
- ^ Rees, William (1992). The Penguin Book of French Poetry: 1820-1950. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-042385-3.
- ^ 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, ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008