1841 in poetry

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Events

January - Elizabeth Barrett Browning is given her golden cocker spaniel "Flush" by writer Mary Russell Mitford.
July 20 - English "peasant poet" absconds from an asylum for the insane at High Beach in Essex and walks 90 miles to his home at Northborough in the east midlands. In late December he is admitted to Northampton General Lunatic Asylum where he will spend the remaining 23 years of his life.
Victor Hugo is elected to the Académie Française, on his fifth attempt.

Sarah Fuller Adams, Vivia Perpetua: A dramatic poem
Robert Browning, Pippa Passes, verse drama
W. J. Fox, Hymns and Anthems, 150 numbered hymns without music, 13 by Sarah Fuller Adams, including "Nearer, my God, to thee"; anthology
Thomas Moore, The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, in 10 volumes, published starting in 1840 and ending this year; Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Samuel Laman Blanchard Life and Literary Remains of L. E. L. including Castruccio Castracani, The Female Picture Gallery and the poetry collection Subjects for Pictures

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
* "Compensation"
* "The Sphinx", first published in The Dial this year, it was later included in Emerson's Poems 1847
William Davis Gallagher, editor, Selections from the Poetical Literature of the West, one of the earliest American regional poetry anthologies; includes poems by 38 writers in the West, including Gallagher's own very popular poem, "Miami Woods"
Charles Follen, Works, poetry and prose, published this year and in 1842
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Ballads and other Poems, including "The Wreck of the Hesperus", "The Village Blacksmith", "Elcelsior" and "The Skeleton in Armor"
James Russell Lowell, A Year's Life
Cornelius Mathews, Wakondah; The Master of Life, a narrative poem about prehistoric Native Americans
Frances Sargent Osgood, The Poetry of Flowers and the Flowers of Poetry
Adrien Rouquette, Les savanes
Lydia Howard Sigourney:
* Pocahontas, and Other Poems, New York: Harper & Brothers
* Poems, Religious and Elegiac
Seba Smith, ''Powhatan''

Thomas Moore, The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, in 10 volumes, published starting in 1840 and ending this year; Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Standish O'Grady, The Emigrant, a long narrative poem, Irish-born Canadian

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February 19 - Ulrika Widström, Swedish poet and translator
March 2 - George Dyer, English classicist and writer
May 20 - Joseph Blanco White, Spanish-born English theologian and poet
June 1 - Robert Allan, Scottish weaver poet, in New York
July 27 - Mikhail Lermontov, Russian poet, dramatist, fiction writer and painter, in duel
August 24 - Bjarni Thorarensen, Icelandic poet and official
September 16 - Thomas John Dibdin, English playwright and songwriter