1847 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- April
- *Robert Browning settles with his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Florence
- *Young Romanian poet Vasile Alecsandri's beloved, Elena Negri, dies in his arms onboard a ship in the Mediterranean; he channels his mourning into a poem, "Steluța"
- Between July and October - Rev. Henry Francis Lyte composes the hymn "Abide with Me" a few months before his death
- September 16 - William Shakespeare's house of birth in Stratford-upon-Avon in England is bought by the United Shakespeare Company for preservation; this year also, Schiller's house in Weimar is opened to the public as a museum
Works published in English
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Edwin Atherstone, The Fall of Nineveh, enlarged to 30 books
- Richard Harris Barham, writing under the pen name "Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.", The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels, verse fiction; illustrated by George Cruikshank and John Leech
- Caroline Clive, writing under the pen name "V", The Queen's Ball
- Walter Savage Landor, The Hellenics of Walter Savage Landor
- Mary Fawler Maude, "Thine for ever! God of love"
- Christina Rossetti, Verses by Christina G. Rossetti
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Mary Shelley; posthumous
- Robert Southey and Caroline Southey, Robin Hood
- Alfred Tennyson's The Princess, including "Tears, Idle Tears"
United States">American poetry">United States
- William Ellery Channing, Poems, Second Series
- Philip Pendleton Cooke, Froissart Ballads, and Other Poems, Philadelphia: Cary and Hart
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems
- Fitz-Greene Halleck, The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck
- Charles Fenno Hoffman, Love's Calendar; Lays of the Hudson and Other Poems
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
- Epes Sargent, Songs of the Sea With Other Poems
- William Wetmore Story, ''Poems''
Works published in other languages
- Heinrich Heine, Atta Troll, German long narrative poem on political and cultural topics
- Raja Ali Haji or his sister Saleha, Syair Abdul Muluk, Malay syair
- Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Prince-Bishop of Montenegro, The Mountain Wreath, Serbian epic verse drama
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 8 - Matei Donici, Bessarabian Romanian poet and Imperial Russian Army general
- February 10 - Nabinchandra Sen নবীনচন্দ্র সেন, Indian, Gujarati-language poet and writer
- April 7 - Jens Peter Jacobsen, Danish poet
- September 22 -- Alice Meynell, née Thompson, English poet, writer, editor, critic and suffragist
- December 1 - Julia A. Moore, the "Sweet Singer of Michigan", American poetaster
- Date not known - Brij Raj, Indian, Dogri-Pahadi Brajbhasha poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- July 21 - William Shepherd, English dissenting minister, politician, poet and writer
- September 10 - Richard Henry Wilde, Irish-born American lawyer, politician and poet
- November 20 - Henry Francis Lyte, Scottish-born English Anglican divine and hymn-writer
- December 30 - Sima Milutinović Sarajlija, Bosnian-Serbian poet, hajduk, translator, historian, philologist, diplomat and adventurer
- Date not known - Liang Desheng, Chinese poet and writer during the Qing Dynasty