1843 in poetry
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Events
- April 4 – William Wordsworth accepts the office of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom on being assured that it is regarded as a purely honorific position.
Works published
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- R. S. Hawker, Reeds Shaken with the Wind
- Thomas Hood, "The Song of the Shirt", a poem
- Richard Henry Horne, ''Orion: An epic poem''
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- William Ellery Channing (poet), Poems, published at the expense of the author's friend Samuel Gray Ward; the volume is admired by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau but condemned by Edgar Allan Poe in "Our Amateur Poets", an essay in Graham's
- Thomas Dunn English, "Ben Bolt", a popular ballad written for the New York Mirror and later set to music numerous times
- William Lloyd Garrison, Sonnets
- James Russell Lowell, Miscellaneous Poems
- Cornelius Mathews, Poems on Man in His Various Aspects under the American Republic
- William Gilmore Simms, Donna Florida, a verse tale; Charleston
- James Gates Percival, The Dream of a Day
- John Pierpont, The Anti-Slavery Poems of John Pierpont
- Elizabeth Oakes Smith, The Sinless Child and Other Poems, acclaimed by critics, including Edgar Allan Poe
- John Greenleaf Whittier, Lays of My Home and Other Poems, regional poetry, including "The Merrimack", "The Funeral Tree of the Sokokis", "The Ballad of Cassandra Southwick" and "Massachusetts to Virginia"
- Nathaniel Parker Willis:
- * The Sacred Poems
- * Poems of Passion
- * ''The Lady Jane and Other Poems''
Other
- Hilario Ascasubi, El gaucho Jacinto Cielo con doce números, Argentina
- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Bouquets et prières, France
- Christian Winther, Til Een ; see also revised edition 1849; Denmark
- Gonçalves Dias, "Canção do exílio", Brazil
- Mikhail Lermontov, "Valerik", Russia, posthumously in the anthology Dawn
- Betty Paoli, Nach dem Gewitter, Austria
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- February 24 – Violet Fane, pen name of Lady Mary Currie, née Mary Montgomerie Lamb, English novelist, poet and essayist
- May 3 – Edward Dowden, Irish-born poet and critic
- August 19 – Charles Montagu Doughty, English poet, writer and traveller
- December 7 – Helena Nyblom, née Roed, Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales
- December 21 – Thomas Bracken, Irish-born New Zealander
- December 24 – Lydia Koidula, born Lydia Jannsen, Estonian
- Undated – Dimitrios Paparrigopoulos, Greek
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 11 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and amateur poet who wrote the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner"
- March 21 – Robert Southey, English Poet Laureate
- June 6 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German lyric poet
- July 9 – Washington Allston, 63, American poet and painter
- December 11 - Casimir Delavigne, French poet and dramatist