1856 in poetry

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Events

Henry Wallis exhibits his romantic painting of The Death of Chatterton in London with the young poet and novelist George Meredith posing as his 18th-century predecessor Thomas Chatterton.

George Henry Boker, Plays and Poems
Thomas Holley Chivers, Birth–Day Song of Liberty
William Wilberforce Lord, Andre
Mortimer Thomson, writing under the pen name "Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B.", Plu-ri-bus-tah, A Song That's by No Author, a satire of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Hiawatha
Francois Dominique Rouquette, Fleurs d'Amerique
Charles Sangster, The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay and Other Poems , Canadian poet published in New York
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, second edition
John Greenleaf Whittier, ''The Panorama and Other Poems''

Charles Sangster, The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay and Other Poems , Canadian poet published in New York by subscription

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January 9 – Lizette Woodworth Reese, American
January 22 – A. D. Godley, Irish-born English classical scholar and writer of light verse
March 4 – Toru Dutt, Indian, writing in Sanskrit, French and English
April 7 – Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, poet and emir of Diiriye Guure
August 20 – Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian poet, writer, playwright and translator
Date not known – Kattakkayathil Cherian Mappila, Indian, Malayalam-language poet

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