1857 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Commissioned with other Hungarian poets to write a poem of praise for a visit of Franz Joseph I of Austria to his country, János Arany instead produces the subversive ballad The Bards of Wales (A walesi bárdok), unpublished until 1863. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, dated this year but first published at the end of 1856 Edward Bulwer-Lytton, writing under the pen name "Owen Meredith", The Wanderer Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Smith, Elder & Co., biography Frederick Locker, London Lyrics (12 re-editions to 1893) Denis MacCarthy, Underglimpses, and Other Poems Theodore Martin, translated from Adam Oehlenschlager, Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Lamp William Allen Butler, Nothing to Wear, published posthumously (first published anonymously in Harper's Weekly); the poem sold well, despite the financial panic; when a woman declared she was the author, the resulting controversy helped sales (see Mortimer Thomson's poem describing the controversy, below) Paul Hamilton Hayne, Sonnets and Other Poems Francis Scott Key, Poems James Lawson, Poems Alexander Beaufort Meek, Songs and Poems of the South 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"), Nothing to Say: A Slight Slap at Mobocratic Snobbery, Which Has "Nothing to Do" with "Nothing to Wear" on the controversy over the authorship of William Allen Butler's poem Nothing to Wear; Thomson was offered a dollar a line for a poem on the subject, submitted an 800-line poem and was paid in full; illustrated by John McLenan; the book sold well Richard Henry Stoddard, Songs of Summer John Greenleaf Whittier: The Sycamores The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier Charles Heavysege, Saul: A Drama in Three Parts, first edition (second edition, 1869); Canada James Lionel Michael, Songs without Music, lyrics, Australia Théodore de Banville, Odes funambulesques, France Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal ("Flowers of Evil"), France Giosuè Carducci, Rime, Italy Rosalia de Castro, La Flor, Galician Spanish poet, writing in Spanish Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Kalevipoeg, Estonia, revised version begins first publication Jan Neruda, Hřbitovní kvítí ("Cemetery Flowers"), Czech Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 27 – Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux, née Robinson (died 1944), English-born poet and biographer March 17 – Benjamin Franklin King, Jr.

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1866 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Charles Baudelaire's collection Les Épaves is published in Belgium containing poems suppressed from Les Fleurs du mal (Paris, 1857) for outraging public morality. His poems also appear in the first anthology by the "Parnassians", Le Parnasse contemporain, published this year. Giuseppe Gioachino Belli's sonnets in the Romanesco dialect of Rome (Sonetti Romaneschii, mostly written in the 1830s) are first published, posthumously in an expurgated selection by his son Ciro.

1891 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1891–1893 –The Rhymers Club gathers at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street, London, including John Davidson, Ernest Dowson, W. B. Yeats, and others. c. Late June – In a meeting of decadent poets in London, Oscar Wilde is first introduced to Lord Alfred Douglas by Lionel Johnson at Wilde's Tite Street home. Approximate date – Edmund Clerihew Bentley, G. K.

1857 in poetry