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Overview of the events of 1834 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France ).
Works published
Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Poetical Works , including "
On Quitting School " (last edition proofread by the author, who died this year)
Sara Coleridge , Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children
[1]
George Crabbe , The Poetical Works of George Crabbe (includes letters, journals and a biography by Crabbe's son; published in eight volumes from February through September)
[1]
Thomas De Quincey ,
Recollections of the Lake Poets , beginning this year, a series of essays published in
Tait's Edinburgh Magazine on the
Lake Poets , including
William Wordsworth and
Robert Southey ; this year, essays on
Samuel Taylor Coleridge were published from September through November, with another in January
1835 (see also Recollections
1839 ; last essay in the series was published in
1840 )
Charlotte Elliott , editor, The Invalid's Hymn Book (anthology)
[1]
A. H. Hallam , Remains in Verse and Prose , posthumously published, including a memoir by
Henry Hallam
[1]
R. S. Hawker , Records of the Western Shore
[1]
Felicia Dorothea Hemans :
National Lyrics, and Songs for Music
[1]
Scenes and Hymns of Life
[1]
Mary Howitt , The Seven Temptations
[1]
Richard Monckton Milnes , Memorials of a Tour in Some Parts of Greece, Chiefly Poetical
[1]
Thomas Moore , Irish Melodies
Amelia Opie , Lays for the Dead
[1]
Thomas Pringle , African Sketches
Catherine Eliza Richardson Poems: Second Series
[2]
Samuel Rogers , Poems
Percy Bysshe Shelley , The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, with the Life , unauthorized; parts were reissued this year as Posthumous Poems
[1]
Henry Taylor , Philip van Artevelde
[1]
Alfred Tennyson , "Morte d'Arthur", completed by October but not published until
Poems
1842
Letitia Elizabeth Landon , writing under the pen name "L.E.L." Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835, including the Fairy of the Fountains
Other
Thomas Holley Chivers , Conrad and Eudora; or, the Death of Alonzo ,
United States
Frederik Paludan-Muller , Amor og Psyche ("Cupid and Psyche"), a verse drama,
Denmark
Adam Mickiewicz ,
Pan Tadeusz, czyli ostatni zajazd na Litwie. Historia szlachecka z roku 1811 i 1812 we dwunastu księgach wierszem pisana ("Mister Thaddeus, or the Last Foray in Lithuania: a History of the Nobility in the Years 1811 and 1812 in Twelve Books of Verse"), also known simply as "Pan Tadeusz", an epic poem in
Polish , published in June in Paris
France Prešeren , Sonnets of Unhappiness (
Slovene : Sonetje nesreče )
Cynthia Taggart , Poems ,
United States
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
7 February –
Estanislao del Campo (died
1880 ),
Argentine poet
24 March –
William Morris (died
1896 ),
English poet and designer
27 March –
Melissa Elizabeth Riddle Banta (died
1907 ),
American poet
5 May –
Emily Rebecca Page (died
1862 ),
American poet and editor
[3]
24 June –
George Arnold (died
1865 ),
American author and poet
9 July –
Jan Neruda (died
1891 ),
Czech writer
27 August –
Roden Noel (died
1894 ),
English poet
1 October –
Mary Mackellar , née Cameron (died
1890 ),
Scottish
Gaelic poet and translator
[4]
2 November –
Harriet McEwen Kimball (died
1917 ),
American poet, hymnwriter, philanthropist
10 November –
José Hernández (died
1886 ),
Argentine poet
23 November –
James Thomson (died
1882 ),
Scottish poet publishing under the
pen name "Bysshe Vanolis"
Deaths
Charles and
Mary Lamb 's grave
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
17 February –
John Thelwall (born
1764 ), radical
English orator, writer, elocutionist and poet
23 February –
Karl Ludwig von Knebel (born
1744 ),
German poet and translator
25 July –
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ,
English Romantic poet, critic and writer
5 December –
Thomas Pringle (born
1789 ),
Scottish writer, poet and abolitionist
27 December –
Charles Lamb ,
English , poet, playwright, critic and essayist
See also
Notes
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l Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature , Oxford University Press, 2004,
ISBN
0-19-860634-6
^ Jackson, J. R. de J. "Richardson [née Scott], Catherine Eliza (1777–1853), poet and novelist".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/23545 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^ Herringshaw, Thomas William (1904).
Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century: Accurate and Succinct Biographies of Famous Men and Women in All Walks of Life who are Or Have Been the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States Since Its Formation ... (Public domain ed.). American Publishers' Association. pp. 712–.
^ Hadden, James Cuthbert (1893).
"Mackellar, Mary" . In
Lee, Sidney (ed.).
Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 35. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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