1846 in poetry
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Events
- c. May 22 - The Brontë sisters' first published work, the collection Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, is issued in London. It sells just two copies in the first year.
- September 12 - Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning marry privately in St Marylebone Parish Church, London, departing for the continent a week later.
Works published in English
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- William Barnes, Poems, Partly of Rural Life
- Robert Bell, ed., Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England
- Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë, Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell
- Robert Browning, Luria: a Tragedy; a Soul's Tragedy, volume 8 of Bells and Pomegranates
- John Burgon, Petra: a poem, to which a few short poems are now added
- Henry Cary, Lives of English Poets, from Johnson to Kirke White, verse first published in the London Magazine from 1821 to 1824
- Thomas Hood, Poems
- John Keble, Lyra Innocentium: Thoughts in verse on Christian children
- Edward Lear, writing under the pen name "Derry Down Derry", A Book of Nonsense, also illustrated by Lear; expanded in 1855, 1861, 1863 etc., Lays from Strathern, Scottish
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- Oliver Wendell Holmes:
- * Urania: A Rhymed Lesson
- * Poems
- Elijah Kellogg, Spartacus to the Gladiators
- Henry Morford, The Rest of Don Juan
- John Godfrey Saxe, Progress: A Satirical Poem
- William Gilmore Simms, Areytos, or Songs of the South
- John Greenleaf Whittier, ''Voices of Freedom''
Works published in other languages
- Aleardo Aleardi, Lettere a Maria, Italy
- Gottfried Keller, ''Gedichte''
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- April 4 - Comte de Lautréamont, pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, French
- April 24 - Marcus Clarke, Australian novelist and poet
- May 25 - Naim Frashëri, Albanian
- August 17 - Alexander MacGregor Rose, Scottish-born Canadian
- August 28 - G. H. Gibson, "Ironbark", Australian
- September 26 - Mary Hannay Foott, Australian
- October 9 - Holger Drachmann, Danish
- October 27 - Katherine Harris Bradley, half of "Michael Field", English
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 7 - John Hookham Frere, English
- February 14 - Standish O'Grady, Irish-Canadian poet and priest
- April 11 - Barron Field, Anglo-Australian
- May 14 - Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton, American
- November 23 - George Darley, Irish-born