1847 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). April – Robert Browning settles with his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Florence Between July and October – Rev. Henry Francis Lyte composes the hymn "Abide with Me" a few months before his death September 16 – William Shakespeare's house of birth in Stratford-upon-Avon in England is bought by the United Shakespeare Company for preservation; this year also, Schiller's house in Weimar is opened to the public as a museum Edwin Atherstone, The Fall of Nineveh, enlarged (from the 1828 edition) to 30 books Richard Harris Barham, writing under the pen name "Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.", The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels, verse fiction; illustrated by George Cruikshank and John Leech (see also Ingoldsby Legends 1840, 1842) Caroline Clive, writing under the pen name "V", The Queen's Ball Walter Savage Landor, The Hellenics of Walter Savage Landor Christina Rossetti, Verses by Christina G. Rossetti Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Mary Shelley; posthumous Robert Southey and Caroline Southey, Robin Hood Alfred Tennyson's The Princess, including "Tears, Idle Tears" William Ellery Channing, Poems, Second Series Philip Pendleton Cooke, Froissart Ballads, and Other Poems, Philadelphia: Cary and Hart Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems Fitz-Greene Halleck, The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck Charles Fenno Hoffman, Love's Calendar; Lays of the Hudson and Other Poems Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie Epes Sargent, Songs of the Sea With Other Poems William Wetmore Story, Poems Heinrich Heine, Atta Troll, German long narrative poem on political and cultural topics Raja Ali Haji or his sister Saleha, Syair Abdul Muluk, Malay syair Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Prince-Bishop of Montenegro, The Mountain Wreath (Горски вијенац, Gorski vijenac), Serbian epic verse drama Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 10 – Nabinchandra Sen নবীনচন্দ্র সেন (died 1909), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and writer April 7 – Jens Peter Jacobsen (died 1885), Danish poet September 22 –- Alice Meynell, née Thompson (died 1922), English poet, writer, editor, critic and suffragist December 1 – Julia A.