1829 in poetry

Events

• The American Monthly Magazine is started in Boston by Nathaniel Parker Willis as a humorous and satirical magazine with essays, fiction, criticism, poetry and humor, largely written by the editor. Other contributors include John Lothrop Motley, Richard Hildreth, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, and Albert Pike. The publication was later absorbed by the New York Mirror
• After the New Harmony utopian community dissolved in 1828, Francis Wright renames the New-Harmony Gazette to the Free Enquirer and broadens its focus to present more socialist and agnostic views
• John Neal, The Yankee and Boston Literary Gazette magazine new series volume 1, the first substantial published criticism of poetry by Edgar Allan Poe

Works published in English

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• George Crabbe, The Poetical Works of George Crabbe, the first single volume of the author's collected works
• Thomas Doubleday, Dioclesian
• Ebenezer Elliott, The Village Patriarch
• Thomas Hood, The Epping Hunt, illustrated by George Cruikshank
• Caroline Norton, published anonymously
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• * I Do Not Love Thee
• * The Cold ChangeProlusiones Academicae, including "Timbuctoo" by Alfred Tennyson, and poems by C. R. Kennedy and C. Merivale
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing under the pen name "L.E.L.", The Venetian Bracelet, The Lost Pleiad, A History of the Lyre and Other Poems

United States">American poetry">United States

• Lucretia Maria Davidson, Amir Khan, and Other Poems, published posthumously and edited by her mother
• George Moses Horton, The Hope of Liberty, the first book by an African American poet in more than 50 years and the first by an African American from the South; contains 23 poems, including three on the author's feelings about having been a slave; he had hoped to make enough money from this and later poetry books to buy his freedom, but was unsuccessful; published in Raleigh, North Carolina
• Samuel Kettell, Specimens of American Poetry, with Critical and Biographical Notices, the first comprehensive anthology of American poetry; including 189 poets, a historical introduction and chronological listing of American poetry; the publisher, Samuel Goodrich, lost $1,500 on the publication and was annoyed to learn it had been nicknamed "Goodrich's Kettle of Poetry"
• Edgar Allan Poe, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Other Poems, including "Al Aaraaf" a shortened version of "Tamerlane", and "Fairyland"
• William Gilmore Simms, ''The Vision of Cortes, Cain, and other Poems''

Works published in other languages

France">French poetry">France

• Victor Hugo:
• * Les Orientales France
• * La Légende des siècles, second series
• Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Vie, poesie et pensees de Joseph Delorme, France
• Alfred de Vigny, ''Poemes antiques et modernes''

Other languages

• Alexander Pushkin. Poltava
• Henrik Wergeland, Digte, første Ring; and Creation, Man and the Messiah, epic poem by the Norwegian poet; the sheer scale of the poem invited to criticism; in 1845, on his deathbed, Wergeland will revise the poem and publish it under the title Man.

Births

• January 12 - Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, Canadian poet
• July 25 - Elizabeth Siddal, English artists' model, poet, painter and muse
• September 18 - Edna Dean Proctor, American poet
• December 8 - Henry Timrod, American "poet laureate of the Confederacy"
• December 31 - Alexander Smith, Scottish poet of the Spasmodic school
• Black Bart, English-born American gentleman stagecoach robber and versifier

Deaths

• January 11 - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet and critic
• February 9 - William Crowe, English poet
• May 29 - Sir Humphry Davy, English chemist, inventor and poet