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Concept
1855 in poetry
Summary
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June 12 – Gaisford Prize founded
September 27 – Alfred Tennyson reads from his new book Maud and other poems at a social gathering in the home of Robert and Elizabeth Browning in London; Dante Gabriel Rossetti makes a sketch of him doing so
Belarusian writer Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich publishes «Гапон» (Hapon) in the Russian Empire, the first poem written wholly in modern Belarusian.
Charles Heavysege:
The Revolt of Tartarus, a poem in six parts (Montreal)
Sonnets (Montreal: H. & G.M. Rose)
William Allingham, The Music-Master, illustrated by Arthur Hughes, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and John Everett Millais
Matthew Arnold, Poems, Second Series (see also Poems 1853) including Balder Dead
Philip James Bailey, The Mystic, and Other Poems (see also Festus 1839)
William Cox Bennett:
Anti-Maud, "by a poet of the people"; parody of Alfred Lord Tennyson's Maud (see below)
War Songs
Robert Browning, Men and Women, including Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, writing under the pen name "Owen Meredith", Clytemnestra; The Earl's Return; The Artist, and Other Poems
Thomas Campbell, The Pleasures of Hope, with Other Poems (first published 1799), illustrated by Birket Foster, George Housman Thomas and Harrison Weir
Sydney Dobell, writing under the pen name "S.
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