- 1850 in poetry
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cp=18th century
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year=1850
ya1=1851
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dn3=1880s|Events
* Alfred, Lord Tennyson becomes
Poet Laureate Works published
*
Sir Richard Burton , translator, "The Arabian Nights "
*Henrik Ibsen , "The Burial Mound "
*Thomas Lovell Beddoes , "Death's Jest-book" (posthumous)
*Elizabeth Barrett Browning , "Sonnets from the Portuguese "
*Robert Browning , "Christmas Eve and Easter Day"
*Leigh Hunt , "Autobiography" in three volumes
*Dante Gabriel Rossetti , "The Blessed Damozel " in "The Gem "
*Alfred Tennyson , "In Memoriam A.H.H. ".
*William Wordsworth , "The Prelude " published several months after his death; though it failed to arouse great interest at the time, but later generally recognised as his masterpieceBirths
* January 15 -
Mihai Eminescu (Romanian)
* June 27 -Ivan Vazov (Bulgarian)
* July 18 -Rose Hartwick Thorpe (US)
* August 1 -William Larminie (US)
* September 2 -Eugene Field (US)
* November 5 -Ella Wheeler Wilcox (US)
* November 13 -Robert Louis Stevenson (Scot)Dates unknown:
*
Albery A. Whitmann (US)
*Isabella Valency Crawford (Canada)Deaths
* January 20 -
Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger
* January 20 -Philip Pendleton Cooke
* April 7 -William Lisle Bowles (UK)
* April 23 -William Wordsworth (UK)
* May 23 -Margaret Fuller (US)
* May 31 -Giuseppe Giusti (Tuscan)
* August 22 -Nikolaus Lenau (Austrian)Dates unknown:
*Manoah Bodman ee also
*
Poetry
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