1831 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). John Banim and Michael Banim, The Chaunt of the Cholera Henry Glassford Bell, Summer and Winter Hours Thomas Campbell, Poland: A Poem. Lines on the View from St. Leonard's James Hogg, Songs, by the Ettrick Shepherd Thomas Hood, The Dream of Eugene Aram, the Murderer Charles Lamb, anonymously published, Satan in Search of a Wife Walter Savage Landor, Gebir, Count Julian and Other Poems (Geber originally published 1798; Count Julian originally published 1812) Winthrop Mackworth Praed, The Ascent of Elijah Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing under the pen name "L.E.L." Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1832 William Cullen Bryant, "Song of Marion's Men", lyric poem, about Francis Marion, an American military figure in the American Revolution Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., "The Last Leaf", about an aging participant in the Boston Tea Party Lowell Mason, Church Psalmody Edgar Allan Poe, Poems by Edgar Allan Poe, Second Edition, including early, unrevised versions of some of the author's most significant verses, including "To Helen", "Israfel" and "The Doomed City"; the preface, "Letter to B", discusses Poe's critical theories, much of which was borrowed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Francis Smith, "America", five stanzas; one of the most popular patriotic hymns in the United States, written at Lowell Mason's request; composed in 30 minutes; set to the music of the British anthem "God Save the King" and first sung at an Independence Day gathering in Boston; known for its opening line "My country 'tis of thee", published by Mason in The Choir 1832 William Joseph Snelling, Truth: A New Year's Gift for Scribblers, a verse satire on contemporary poets, calling many of them inferior, especially those portraying American Indians with stereotypes John Greenleaf Whittier, Legends of New-England in Prose and Verse, the author's first book; uncomfortable with the gothic style of the volume, Whittier suppressed it later Emma Hart Willard, The Fulfillment of a Promise, includes "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep", about the poet's trip home from Europe, which became a very popular poem set to music by Joseph P.