1841 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January – Elizabeth Barrett Browning is given her golden cocker spaniel "Flush" by writer Mary Russell Mitford. July 20 – English "peasant poet" absconds from an asylum for the insane at High Beach in Essex and walks 90 miles (140 km) to his home at Northborough in the east midlands. In late December he is admitted to Northampton General Lunatic Asylum where he will spend the remaining 23 years of his life. Victor Hugo is elected to the Académie Française, on his fifth attempt. 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.

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1846 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). c. May 22 – The Brontë sisters' first published work, the collection Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, is issued in London. It sells just two copies in the first year. September 12 – Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning marry privately in St Marylebone Parish Church, London, departing for the continent a week later. William Barnes, Poems, Partly of Rural Life Robert Bell, ed.

1840 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). The Percy Society is established in Britain to publish scholarly editions of early ballads, poems and other works in English. Thomas Aird, Orthuriel, and Other Poems Matthew Arnold, Alaric at Rome Robert Browning, Sordello Caroline Clive, under the pen name "V", IX Poems by 'V''' Thomas De Quincey, Recollections of the Lake Poets, final two essays on the Lake Poets published in Tait's E

1845 in poetry

— Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 10—Robert Browning, 32, and Elizabeth Barrett, 38, begin their correspondence when she receives a note declaring "I love you" from Browning, a little-known poet whose verses she had praised in her poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship"; on May 20 they meet for the first time. She begins writing her Sonnets from the Portuguese. April - Nathaniel Hawthorne first publishes "P.