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Concept
1856 in poetry
Summary
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Henry Wallis exhibits his romantic painting of The Death of Chatterton in London with the young poet and novelist George Meredith posing as his 18th-century predecessor Thomas Chatterton.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
Aurora Leigh (first published November 15, dated 1857)
Poems (see also Poems 1844, 1850, 1853)
Sydney Dobell, England in Time of War
Edward Fitzgerald, written anonymously, Salaman and Absal
Walter Savage Landor, Antony and Octavius
Coventry Patmore, The Espousals (The Angel in the House, Volume 2; see also The Betrothal 1854, Faithful for Ever 1860, The Victories of Love 1863)
Wesley family, The Bards of Epworth, anthology
George Henry Boker, Plays and Poems
Thomas Holley Chivers, Birth–Day Song of Liberty
William Wilberforce Lord, Andre
Mortimer Thomson, writing under the pen name "Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B." (Without the pen name's abbreviations: "Queer Kritter Philander Doesticks, Perfect Brick"), Plu-ri-bus-tah, A Song That's by No Author, a satire of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Hiawatha
Francois Dominique Rouquette, Fleurs d'Amerique
Charles Sangster, The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay and Other Poems , Canadian poet published in New York
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, second edition
John Greenleaf Whittier, The Panorama and Other Poems
Charles Sangster, The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay and Other Poems , Canadian poet published in New York by subscription
Aleardo Aleardi, Il Monte Circello ("Mount Circello"), Italy
Juris Alunāns, Songs, Latvia
Victor Hugo, Les Contemplations, France
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 9 – Lizette Woodworth Reese (died 1935), American
January 22 – A. D. Godley (died 1925), Irish-born English classical scholar and writer of light verse
March 4 – Toru Dutt (died 1877), Indian, writing in Sanskrit, French and English
April 7 – Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (died 1920), poet and emir of Diiriye Guure
August
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