The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in four volumes is published from January to May, edited by
Mary Shelley, with her preface and notes, and dedicated to the Shelleys' son, Percy Florence Shelley; London: Edward Moxon (reprinted in
1847[1])
England in 1819, a political sonnet composed in 1819, first published
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Voices of the Night, the author's first volume of original poetry; includes "A Psalm of Life" and "Light of the Stars"[5]
Edgar Allan Poe, The Haunted Palace, an allegory of mental states; considered one of the author's best poems, written at a time when his finances forced him to concentrate on stories rather than poetry; originally published in the Baltimore Museum and later included in "The Fall of the House of Usher"[5]
William Gilmore Simms, Southern Passages and Pictures, lyrical, sentimental and descriptive poems; New York[6]
May 4 -
Denis Davydov (born
1784), Russian soldier-poet of the
Napoleonic Wars, inventor of a specific genre,
hussar poetry, noted for its hedonism and bravado
^Paniker, Ayyappa,
"Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009
The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in four volumes is published from January to May, edited by
Mary Shelley, with her preface and notes, and dedicated to the Shelleys' son, Percy Florence Shelley; London: Edward Moxon (reprinted in
1847[1])
England in 1819, a political sonnet composed in 1819, first published
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Voices of the Night, the author's first volume of original poetry; includes "A Psalm of Life" and "Light of the Stars"[5]
Edgar Allan Poe, The Haunted Palace, an allegory of mental states; considered one of the author's best poems, written at a time when his finances forced him to concentrate on stories rather than poetry; originally published in the Baltimore Museum and later included in "The Fall of the House of Usher"[5]
William Gilmore Simms, Southern Passages and Pictures, lyrical, sentimental and descriptive poems; New York[6]
May 4 -
Denis Davydov (born
1784), Russian soldier-poet of the
Napoleonic Wars, inventor of a specific genre,
hussar poetry, noted for its hedonism and bravado
^Paniker, Ayyappa,
"Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009