Overview of the events of 1859 in poetry
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Works published in English [ edit ] William Barnes :Edmund Fitzgerald ,The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (revised in1868 ,1872 ,1879 [with theSalaman andAbsal of Jami — see1856 ])[ 2] Louisa Shore andArabella Shore , written anonymously,Gemma of the Isles [ 2] Alfred Lord Tennyson ,Idylls of the King including "Enid," "Vivien," "Elaine," and "Guinevere" (see alsoThe Holy Grail 1869 ,Idylls of the King 1870 ,Gareth and Lynette 1872 , "Balin and Balan" inTiresias 1885 ,Idylls of the King 1889 )[ 2] Works published in other languages [ edit ] Victor Hugo ,La Légende des siècles 1877 ,1883 ),France [ 5] Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam ,Premières Poésies ,France Frédéric Mistral ,Mirèio France (Occitan language )Casimiro de Abreu ,As Primaveras Brazil Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 13 (January 8OS ) –Kostis Palamas (died1943 ),Greek poet February 24 –Susie Frances Riley ,Canadian poet[ 6] February 25 –James Kenneth Stephen (died1892 ),English poet and tutor toPrince Albert Victor , son ofAlbert Edward, Prince of Wales March 26 –A. E. Housman (died1936 ),English classical scholar and poet April 5 –William Herbert Carruth (died1924 ),American educator and poet May 6 –Willem Kloos (died1938 ),Dutch poet and critic June 10 –Jacques Perk (died1881 ),Dutch poet June 12 –Guido Mazzoni (died1943 ),Italian poet July 17 –Ernest Rhys (died1946 ),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 (died1947 ),American poet August 12 –Katharine Lee Bates (died1929 ),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" (1889 ) popularizes"Mrs. Santa Claus" September 19 –Annie Wall Barnett (died1942 ),American poet November 2 –Augusta Peaux (died1944 ),Dutch poet November 4 –Perceval Gibbon (died1926 ),South African poet, short-story writer, author and journalist December 16 –Francis Thompson (died1907 )English poet Also –Narasinghrao (died1937 ),Indian ,Gujarati -language poet and writer[ 7] Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 23 –Bettina von Arnim (born1785 ), German writer, poet, composer and novelist January 23 –Iswarchandra Gupta (born1811 ),Bengali poet and writer February 13 –Eliza Acton (born1799 ),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 (born1823 ),American poet and failed inventor April 3 –Reginald Heber (born1783 ,English Anglican bishop, poet and hymn writer April 14 –Sydney, Lady Morgan , née Owenson (born about1781 ),Irish novelist and poet July 23 –Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (born1786 ),French August 28 –Leigh Hunt (born1784 ),English critic, essayist, poet and writer November 28 –Washington Irving (born1783 ) American author, essayist, biographer, historian and poet December 28 –Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (born1800 )English historian, Whig politician and poet ^ (in Russian) Лапидус Н. И., Малюкович С. Д. (1992). «Литература XIX века». М.: Университетское. p.147.^a b c d e Cox, Michael, ed. (2004).The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature ISBN 0-19-860634-6 ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr.,Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983 , 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi) ^ Bentley, D. M. R.,"Poetry in English" , article inThe Canadian Encyclopedia , retrieved February 8, 2009 ^ Rees, William,The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950 ISBN 978-0-14-042385-3 ^ Gustafson, Ralph,The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse , revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books ^ Mohan, Sarala Jag,Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors,Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India , Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996,ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7
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