1850 in poetry

— From Cantos 27 and 56, In Memoriam A.H.H., by Alfred Tennyson, published this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). May (late) – Alfred Tennyson's poem In Memoriam A.H.H., written to commemorate the death of his friend and fellow poet Arthur Hallam in 1833, is published by Edward Moxon in London; on June 1 the writer's anonymity is broken by The Publishers' Circular June 13 – Alfred Tennyson marries his childhood friend Emily Sellwood at Shiplake July – William Wordsworth's The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem, on which he has worked since 1798, is first published about 3 months after his death by Edward Moxon in London in 14 books, with the title supplied by the poet's widow, Mary; originally intended to form the introduction to The Recluse, for which The Excursion (1814) formed the second part; though The Prelude failed to arouse great interest at this time, it is later generally recognised as his masterpiece (second edition 1851; see also "Events" for 1798, 1799, 1806, 1820, The Recluse 1888) November – A new edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poems is published by Chapman & Hall in London, including (in vol. 2) her Sonnets from the Portuguese (written during her courtship by Robert Browning c.1845–46) of which the most famous will be no. 43 ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

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1805 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January–September – Samuel Taylor Coleridge serves as Acting Public Secretary in Malta. William Wordsworth begins his first revision of The Prelude: or, Growth of a Poet's Mind in 13 Books, a version completed in 1806 and further revised later in his life. His work this year and next revised the original 1798-1799 version. The book was not published in any form until shortly after his death in 1850.

1799 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). August 1 – British Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson's defeat of the French fleet in the Battle of the Nile is the subject of separate poems this year by English poets William Lisle Bowles and William Sotheby. December 20 – William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy first take up residence at Dove Cottage, Grasmere. William Wordsworth completes the first version of The Prelude, begun in 1798.

1833 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June – Rev. John Henry Newman writes "The Pillar of Cloud" (Lead, Kindly Light) on a boat in the Strait of Bonifacio. 15 September – English poet Arthur Henry Hallam, a friend of Tennyson (and fiancé of his sister Emily), dies suddenly of a brain haemorrhage in Vienna aged 22.