Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France).
Events
The
Weimar Classicism period in
Germany is commonly considered to have begun in
1788) and to have ended either in
1805, with the death of Schiller, or this year, with the death of
Goethe
Thomas Jefferson Hogg, a friend of
Percy Bysshe Shelley, contributed to
Bulwer-Lytton's New Monthly Magazine his "Reminiscences of Shelley", which was highly regarded. As a result, Hogg will later write a biography of Shelley.
Alfred Tennyson, Poems, including "
The Lady of Shalott", "Mariana in the South", "Oenone", "The Palace of Art", "A Dream of Fair Women" and "The Lotos-Eaters"; published in December of this year, although the book states "1833" (see also Poems1842)[1]
William Cullen Bryant, Poems, has most of the author's significant work since 1818, with five previously unpublished poems, including "To a Fringed Gentian" and "The Song of Marion's Men"; described as "the best volume of American verse that has ever appeared" by a writer in The North American Review[2]
Thomas Holley Chivers, The Path of Sorrow; or, The Lament of Youth; the author's first book of poetry, written while he was studying medicine[2]
Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, The Last Night of Pompeii, a narrative poem about the conflicts between the Christian and pagan faiths; written in three cantos of blank verse[2]
William Gilmore Simms, Atalantis: A Story of the Sea, a poem about a sea-fairy saved from a demon by a Spanish knight, who is then led by her into the caves of the ocean[2]
Théophile Gautier, Albertus, 62 poems in a wide variety of verse forms, often imitating other, more established Romantic poets such as
Sainte-Beuve,
Alphonse de Lamartine, and
Victor Hugo; an expanded version of Poésies1830, which contained 40 pieces composed when the author was 18 years old (since that work was published during the
July Revolution, no copies were sold and it was eventually withdrawn; see also the revised edition,
1845), includes "Albertus", written in 1831, a long narrative poem of 122
alexandrine stanzas parodying macabre and supernatural Romantic tales;
France