1843 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). April 4 – William Wordsworth accepts the office of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (following the death of Robert Southey on March 21) on being assured that it is regarded as a purely honorific position. R. S. Hawker, Reeds Shaken with the Wind Thomas Hood, "The Song of the Shirt", a poem (published in the Christmas issue of Punch) Richard Henry Horne, Orion: An epic poem William Ellery Channing (poet), Poems, published at the expense of the author's friend Samuel Gray Ward; the volume is admired by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau but condemned by Edgar Allan Poe in "Our Amateur Poets", an essay in Graham's Thomas Dunn English, "Ben Bolt", a popular ballad written for the New York Mirror and later set to music numerous times William Lloyd Garrison, Sonnets James Russell Lowell, Miscellaneous Poems Cornelius Mathews, Poems on Man in His Various Aspects under the American Republic William Gilmore Simms, Donna Florida, a verse tale; Charleston James Gates Percival, The Dream of a Day John Pierpont, The Anti-Slavery Poems of John Pierpont Elizabeth Oakes Smith, The Sinless Child and Other Poems, acclaimed by critics, including Edgar Allan Poe John Greenleaf Whittier, Lays of My Home and Other Poems, regional poetry, including "The Merrimack", "The Funeral Tree of the Sokokis", "The Ballad of Cassandra Southwick" and "Massachusetts to Virginia" Nathaniel Parker Willis: The Sacred Poems Poems of Passion The Lady Jane and Other Poems Hilario Ascasubi, El gaucho Jacinto Cielo con doce números, Argentina Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Bouquets et prières, France Christian Winther, Til Een ("To Someone"); see also revised edition 1849; Denmark Gonçalves Dias, "Canção do exílio", Brazil Mikhail Lermontov, "Valerik", Russia, posthumously in the anthology Dawn Betty Paoli, Nach dem Gewitter ("After the Storm"), Austria Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 24 – Violet Fane, pen name of Lady Mary Currie, née Mary Montgomerie Lamb (died 1905), English novelist, poet and essayist May 3 – Edward Dowden (died 1913), Irish-born poet and critic August 19 – Charles Montagu Doughty (died 1926), English poet, writer and traveller December 7 – Helena Nyblom, née Roed (died 1926), Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales December 21 – Thomas Bracken (died 1898), Irish-born New Zealander December 24 (December 12 O.