1830 in poetry

[edit] Events

[edit] Works

• Ebenezer Elliott, Corn Law Rhymes
• Sarah Josepha Hale, Poems for our Children, including "Mary's Lamb"
• Alphonse de Lamartine, Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
• Alfred de Musset, Comtes d'Espagne et d'Italie
• Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Les Consolations
• Alfred Tennyson, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, including "The Kraken", "Mariana"

[edit] Births

• January 1 — Paul Hamilton Hayne (died 1886) Southern American poet, critic, and editor
• May 5 — Thomas Edward Brown (died 1897), Manx poet, scholar and theologian
• September 8 — Frédéric Mistral, French poet who led the 19th century revival of Occitan (Provençal) language and literature, a key figure in the literary félibrige movement, and one of two winners of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature for his contributions in literature and philology.
• October 18 — Helen Hunt Jackson (died 1885) American poet and writer
• December 5 — Christina Rossetti (died 1894) English poet
• December 10 — Emily Dickinson, American poet (died 1886)
• December 31 — Alexander Smith — Scottish poet labelled as one of the Spasmodic School
• date not known:
  • Charlotte Alington Barnard
  • James M. Whitfield (US)

[edit] Deaths

• William Hazlitt

[edit] See also

Poetry Portal

• Poetry