1859 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Events

May - Antoni de Bofarull and Víctor Balaguer re-establish the Barcelona Floral Games, contests for Catalan Renaixença poetry.
The first translation of Adam Mickiewicz's Polish epic poem Pan Tadeusz into a different language, Belarusian, is made by Belarusian writer and dramatist Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich, in Vilnius but because of pressure from the authorities of the ruling Russian Empire he is able to publish only the first two chapters of the poem.

William Barnes:
* Hwomely Rhymes
* The Song of Solomon in the Dorset Dialect
Edmund Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Louisa Shore and Arabella Shore, written anonymously, Gemma of the Isles
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King including "Enid," "Vivien," "Elaine," and "Guinevere"

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems, United States
William Kirby, The U.E.: A Tale of Upper Canada, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

January 13 - Kostis Palamas, Greek poet
February 24 - Susie Frances Riley, Canadian poet
February 25 - James Kenneth Stephen, English poet and tutor to Prince Albert Victor, son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
March 26 - A. E. Housman, English classical scholar and poet
April 5 - William Herbert Carruth, American educator and poet
May 6 - Willem Kloos, Dutch poet and critic
June 10 - Jacques Perk, Dutch poet
June 12 - Guido Mazzoni, Italian poet
July 17 - Ernest Rhys, English writer, essayist, poet, novelist, playwright and short-story writer best known as founding editor of Everyman's Library series of affordable classics
July 25 - Minnie Gow Walsworth, American poet
August 12 - Katharine Lee Bates, American poet best known as the author of the words to the anthem "America the Beautiful"; her poem "Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride" popularizes "Mrs. Santa Claus"
September 19 - Annie Wall Barnett, American poet
November 2 - Augusta Peaux, Dutch poet
November 4 - Perceval Gibbon, South African poet, short-story writer, author and journalist
December 16 - Francis Thompson English poet
Also - Narasinghrao, Indian, Gujarati-language poet and writer

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

January 23 - Bettina von Arnim, German writer, poet, composer and novelist
January 23 - Iswarchandra Gupta, Bengali poet and writer
February 13 - Eliza Acton, English poet and cook who produced one of the country's first cookbooks aimed at the domestic reader rather than the professional
March 30 - James Matthews Legaré, American poet and failed inventor
April 3 - Reginald Heber, Irish novelist and poet
July 23 - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, French
August 28 - Leigh Hunt, English critic, essayist, poet and writer
November 28 - Washington Irving American author, essayist, biographer, historian and poet
December 28 - Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay English historian, Whig politician and poet