1837 in poetry

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Events

July - English "peasant poet" John Clare first enters an asylum for the insane, at High Beach in Essex.
October - The United States Magazine and Democratic Review is established by John L. O'Sullivan, a political and literary magazine that publishes Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau and others.

Richard Harris Barham's Ingoldsby Legends
Lord Byron, Dramas
Eliza Cook's The Old Armchair
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters and Works, including introductory anecdotes by Lady Louisa Stuart
Thomas Love Peacock's The Paper Money Lyrics
Robert Southey, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, first two volumes published this year; second two volumes published in 1838
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing under the pen name "L.E.L." Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1838

Thomas Holley Chivers, Nacoochee
George Moses Horton's Hope of Liberty — Poems by a Slave, a second edition of Hope of Liberty, originally published in 1829; the new edition was published in Philadelphia by an antislavery group; Horton received no royalties ; contains 23 poems, including three on the author's feelings about having been a slave;
Frederick William Shelton, The Trollopiad; or, Travelling Gentlemen in America, a verse satire on British travel writer Frances Trollope, who wrote harshly about Americans in her Domestic Manners of the Americans 1832
John Greenleaf Whittier, Poems Written During the Progress of the Abolition Question in the United States, the author's first poetry book, published in an unauthorized edition by Boston abolitionists; the next year, Whittier expanded the collection and published it under the title Poems; includes poems attacking slavery, such as "Clerical Oppressors", which focuses on Southern church leaders who use Christianity to defend slavery, and "Stanzas", on the irony of America's commitments to both freedom and slavery

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January 29 - Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet, killed in a duel
June 14 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet, philosopher, essayist and philologist
March 15 - Lukijan Mušicki, Serbian poet, prose writer and polyglot
September 8 - Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, English
October 17 - George Colman the Younger, English dramatist and miscellaneous writer
October 19 - Hendrik Doeff, Dutch trader, the first westerner to write haiku in Japanese
November 11 - Thomas Green Fessenden, American