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1839 in poetry

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Events

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Works published

=[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]=

  • Philip James Bailey, Festus, reprinted in numerous editions up to 1889, when the 50th anniversary edition was published{{cite book|editor=Cox, Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}{{cite book|first=Robert|last=Birley|authorlink=Robert Birley|title=Sunk Without Trace: some forgotten masterpieces reconsidered|url=https://archive.org/details/sunkwithouttrace0000birl|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Rupert Hart-Davis|year=1962|chapter=Philip James Bailey, Festus|pages=[https://archive.org/details/sunkwithouttrace0000birl/page/172 172–208]}}
  • Thomas De Quincey, biographical essays on the Lake Poets in the series Recollections of the Lake Poets, in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (see also Recollections 1834, 1835, 1840):
  • "William Wordsworth," January, February, and April
  • "William Wordsworth and Robert Southey," July
  • "Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge," August
  • "Recollections of Grasmere," September
  • "The Saracen's Head," December
  • William Gaskell, Temperance Rhymes
  • Henry Hart Milman, Poetical Works
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, posthumous works (died 1822):
  • 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)
  • England in 1819, a political sonnet composed in 1819, first published
  • The 'Pearl Poet', Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance first published complete, in Syr Gawayne: a collection of ancient romance-poems by Scottish and English authors relating to that celebrated knight of the Round Table edited by Frederic Madden for the Bannatyne Club{{cite book|last=Turville-Petre|first=Thorlac|title=The Alliterative Revival|location=Woodbridge|publisher=Brewer|year=1977|pages=126–129|isbn=0-85991-019-9}}{{cite book|last=Burrow|first=J. A.|title=Ricardian Poetry|location=London|publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul|year=1971|isbn=0-7100-7031-4|pages=4–5}}

=[[American poetry|United States]]=

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson:
  • "Each and All", a poem calling Nature "the perfect whole"Burt, Daniel S., [https://books.google.com/books?id=VQ0fgo5v6e0C The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times], Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, {{ISBN|978-0-618-16821-7}}, retrieved via Google Books
  • "The Humble-Bee", praising the "yellow breeched philosopher"
  • "The Rhodora"
  • 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"
  • 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"
  • William Gilmore Simms, Southern Passages and Pictures, lyrical, sentimental and descriptive poems; New York{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Simms, William Gilmore |volume=25 |pages=123–124}}
  • Jones Very, Essays and Poems, prose and poetryLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press

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See also

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