1855 in poetry

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Events

June 12 - Gaisford Prize founded
September 27 - Alfred Tennyson reads from his new book Maud and other poems at a social gathering in the home of Robert and Elizabeth Browning in London; Dante Gabriel Rossetti makes a sketch of him doing so
Belarusian writer Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich publishes «Гапон» in the Russian Empire, the first poem written wholly in modern Belarusian.

William Allingham, The Music-Master, illustrated by Arthur Hughes, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and John Everett Millais
Matthew Arnold, Poems, Second Series including Balder Dead
Philip James Bailey, The Mystic, and Other Poems
William Cox Bennett:
* Anti-Maud, "by a poet of the people"; parody of Alfred Lord Tennyson's Maud
* War Songs
Robert Browning, Men and Women, including Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, writing under the pen name "Owen Meredith", Clytemnestra; The Earl's Return; The Artist, and Other Poems
Thomas Campbell, The Pleasures of Hope, with Other Poems, illustrated by Birket Foster, George Housman Thomas and Harrison Weir
Sydney Dobell, writing under the pen name "S. Yendeys", and Alexander Smith, Sonnets on the War
Leigh Hunt, Stories in Verse, a collection of his narrative poems, original and translated
George MacDonald, Within and Without, the author's first published book
Louisa Shore, War Lyrics
Alfred Tennyson, Maud and other poems, including The Charge of the Light Brigade, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington 1852
Catherine Winkworth, Lyra Germanica, first series, a popular translation of Versuch eines allgemeinen evangelischen Gesang- und Gebetbuchs by Christian Karl Josias, Freiherr von Busen

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Bells: A Collection of Chimes
Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne, Poetical Works, posthumously published
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha, a very popular poem, often satirized from within days of its publication through the 20th century
Bayard Taylor:
* Poems of the Orient
* Poems of Home and Travel
Lucy Terry, first known African American poet, "Bars Fight, August 28, 1746", a ballad, posthumously published
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, the first edition, self-published July 4; Whitman would make many revisions in succeeding editions

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