1839 in poetry

[edit] Events

William Wordsworth, reproduced from Margaret Gillies' 1839 original

• William Wordsworth granted an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree by Oxford University.

[edit] Works

• Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Hyperion; Voices of the Night
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poetical Words 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; posthumous)

[edit] Births

• January 1 - James Ryder Randall (US)
• April 18 - Henry Kendall, Australian (d 1882)
• June 21 - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian (d 1909)
• August 4 - Walter Pater (UK)
• August 25 - Bret Harte (d 1902)
• December 30 - John Todhunter (Irish)

[edit] Deaths

• May 21 - José María Heredia y Campuzano, Cuban poet
• July 15 - Winthrop Mackworth Praed (UK)

Date unknown:

• Thomas Haynes Bayley

[edit] See also

Poetry Portal

• Poetry