1855 in poetry

1855 in poetry

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Events

*12 June - Gaisford Prize founded

Works published

* Matthew Arnold's "Poems, Second Series"
* Robert Browning's "Men and Women", including "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
* Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"
* Leigh Hunt, "Stories in Verse", a collection of his narrative poems, original and translated
* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Hiawatha"
* Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Maud and Other Poems"
* Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"

Births

* May 1 - Marie Corelli (Mary Mackay) (UK) (d 1924)
* May 21 - Emile Verhaeren (Belgian/French) (d 1916)
* August 3 - Henry Cuyler Bunner (US)
* September 12 - William Sharp (Scot) (d 1905)
* December 15 - Maurice Bouchor (French) (d. 1929)
* December 28 - Juan Zorrilla de San Martín (Uruguay) Dates unknown:
* Alexander Young (Scotland)

Deaths

* January 10 - Mary Russell Mitford (UK)
* January 25 - Dorothy Wordsworth (UK)
* January 26 - Gérard de Nerval (French)
* March 31 - Charlotte Brontë (UK)
* June 29 - Delphine de Girardin (French)
* November 26 - Adam Mickiewicz (Poland)
* December 18 - Samuel Rogers (UK)

Dates unknown:
* Robert Montgomery

ee also

*Poetry


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