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1835 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * November/December – The Federal Convention in Germany prohibits circulation of work by members of the " Young Germany" group of writers and the exiled poet Heinrich Heine. Works United Kingdom * Robert Browning, ''Paracelsus'' (reprinted in ''Poems'' 1849)Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * John Clare, ''The Rural Muse'' * William Cowper, ''The Works of William Cowper'', edited by Robert Southey, 15 volumes published this year through 1837; posthumously published * George Darley, ''Nepenthe'' * Thomas De Quincey, two essays in the series '' Recollections of the Lake Poets'', in '' Tait's Edinburgh Magazine'' on the Lake Poets, a fourth installment on Samuel Taylor Coleridge in January (first installments, which inaugurated the series, in September through November 183 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1820 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or French). Events *January 16 - ''Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery'' by "Northamptonshire peasant poet" John Clare is published in England by John Taylor * April 22 - Walter Scott is created 1st Baronet of Abbotsford in the County of Roxburgh in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. * The Cambridge Apostles, an intellectual discussion group, is established at the University of Cambridge in England. * John Keats begins showing worse signs of tuberculosis. On the suggestion of his doctors, he leaves London for Italy with his friend Joseph Severn and moves into a house on the Spanish Steps in Rome, where his health rapidly deteriorates. He will die in 1821 in poetry, 1821. * William Wordsworth completes another major revision of ''The Prelude''. This revision was begun in 1819 in poetry, 1819. His first version, in two parts, was done in 1798 in poetry, 1798 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Rodman Drake
Joseph Rodman Drake (August 7, 1795 – September 21, 1820) was an early American poet. Biography Born in New York City, he was orphaned when young and entered a mercantile house. While still a child, he showed a talent for writing poems. He was educated at Columbia College. In 1813 he began studying in a physician's office. In 1816 he began to practice medicine and in the same year married Sarah, daughter of Henry Eckford, a naval architect. In 1819, together with his friend and fellow poet Fitz-Greene Halleck, he wrote a series of satirical verses for the ''New York Evening Post'', which were published under the penname "The Croakers." Drake died of consumption a year later at the age of twenty-five. As a writer, Drake is considered part of the "Knickerbocker group", which also included Halleck, Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, James Kirke Paulding, Gulian Crommelin Verplanck, Robert Charles Sands, Lydia M. Child, and Nathaniel Parker Willis. A collection of poem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1818 In Poetry
:::::::— John Keats, ''Endymion (poem), Endymion'' Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish poetry, Irish or French poetry, France). Events John Keats * June–August – John Keats, Keats with his friend Charles Armitage Brown makes a walking tour of Scotland, Ireland and the English Lake District. On July 11 while in Scotland he visits Burns Cottage, the birthplace of Robert Burns (1759 in poetry, 1759–1796 in poetry, 1796). Before Keats arrives, he writes to a friend that "one of the pleasantest means of annulling self is approaching such a shrine as the cottage of Burns — we need not think of his misery — that is all gone — bad luck to it — I shall look upon it all with unmixed pleasure." but his encounter with the cottage's alcoholic custodian returns him to thoughts of misery. On August 2 he climbs to the summit of Ben Nevis, on which he writes a sonnet. * September–Novembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852), was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist who was widely regarded as Ireland's "National poet, national bard" during the late Georgian era. The acclaim rested primarily on the popularity of his ''Irish Melodies'' (with the first of ten volumes appearing in 1808). In these, Moore set to old Irish tunes verses that spoke to a nationalist narrative of Irish dispossession and loss. With his romantic work ''Lalla Rookh'' (1817), in which these same themes are explored in an elaborate Orientalism, orientalist allegory, Moore achieved wider critical recognition. Translated into several languages, and adapted and arranged for musical performance by, among others, Robert Schumann, the Chivalric romance, chivalric verse-narrative established Moore as one of the leading exemplars of European romanticism. In England, Moore moved in aristocratic Whigs (British political party), Whig circles where, in addition to a Salon (gathering), salon perfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pen Name
A pen name or nom-de-plume is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to merge multiple persons into a single identifiable author, or for any of several reasons related to the marketing or aesthetic presentation of the work. The author's real identity may be known only to the publisher or may become common knowledge. In some cases, such as those of Elena Ferrante and Torsten Krol, a pen name may preserve an author's long-term anonymity. Etymology ''Pen name'' is formed by joining pen with name. Its earliest use in English is in the 1860s, in the writings of Bayard Taylor. The French-language phrase is used as a synonym for "pen name" ( means 'pen') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838) was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L. Landon's writings are emblematic of the transition from Romanticism to Victorian literature. Her first major breakthrough came with ''The Improvisatrice'' and thence she developed the metrical romance towards the Victorian ideal of the Victorian monologue, influencing fellow English writers such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson and Christina Rossetti.Sypher Her influence can also be found in the United States, where she was very popular. Edgar Allan Poe regarded her genius as self-evident. In spite of these wide influences, due to the perceived immorality of Landon's lifestyle, her works were largely ignored or misrepresented after her death. Early life Letitia Elizabeth Landon was born on 14 August 1802 in Chelsea, London to John Landon and Catherine Jane, ''née'' Bishop. A precocious child, Landon learned to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Henry Leigh Hunt
James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 178428 August 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet. Hunt co-founded ''The Examiner (1808–86), The Examiner'', a leading intellectual journal expounding radical principles. He was the centre of the Hampstead-based group that included William Hazlitt and Charles Lamb, known as the "Hunt circle". Hunt also introduced John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson to the public. He may be best remembered for being sentenced to prison for two years on charges of libel against the Prince Regent (1813-1815). Hunt's presence at Shelley's funeral on the beach near Viareggio was immortalised in the painting by Louis Édouard Fournier. Hunt inspired aspects of the Harold Skimpole character in Charles Dickens' novel ''Bleak House''. Early life James Henry Leigh Hunt was born on 19 October 1784, at Southgate, London, where his parents had settled after leaving the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1840 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * The Percy Society is established in Britain to publish scholarly editions of early ballads, poems and other works in English. Works published in English United Kingdom * Thomas Aird, ''Orthuriel, and Other Poems'' * Matthew Arnold, ''Alaric at Rome'' * Robert Browning, '' Sordello'' * Caroline Clive, under the pen name "V", ''IX Poems by 'V * Thomas De Quincey, '' Recollections of the Lake Poets'', final two essays on the Lake Poets published in '' Tait's Edinburgh Magazine'' (first essay published in 1836; see also ''Recollections'' 1835, 1839): ** "Westmoreland and the Dalesmen," January ** "Society of the Lakes, I, II, and III," January, March, and June * Frederick William Faber, ''The Cherwell Water-Lily, and Other Poems'' * Monckton Milnes, ''Poetry for the People'' * Thomas Moore, ''The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore'', in 10 volumes, publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1839 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * William Wordsworth granted an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree by Oxford University. Works published United Kingdom * Philip James Bailey, ''Festus'', reprinted in numerous editions up to 1889, when the 50th anniversary edition was published * Thomas De Quincey, biographical essays on the Lake Poets in the series '' Recollections of the Lake Poets'', in '' Tait's Edinburgh Magazine'' (see also ''Recollections'' 1834, 1835, 1840): ** "William Wordsworth," January, February, and April ** "William Wordsworth and Robert Southey," July ** "Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge," August ** "Recollections of Grasmere," September ** "The Saracen's Head," December * William Gaskell, ''Temperance Rhymes'' * Henry Hart Milman, ''Poetical Works'' * Percy Bysshe Shelley, posthumous works (died 1822): ** ''The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley'' in four vol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (7 April 177023 April 1850) was an English Romantic poetry, Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romanticism, Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication ''Lyrical Ballads'' (1798). Wordsworth's ''masterpiece, magnum opus'' is generally considered to be ''The Prelude'', a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published by his wife in the year of his death, before which it was generally known as "The Poem to Coleridge". Wordsworth was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850. He remains one of the most recognizable names in English poetry and was a key figure of the Romantic poets. Early life Family and education The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in what is now named Word ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
