1839 in poetry
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[edit] Events
- 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
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1 - James Ryder Randall, American
- April 18 - Henry Kendall (died 1882), Australian
- June 21 - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (died 1909), Brazilian
- August 4 - Walter Pater (UK)
- August 25 - Bret Harte (d 1902)
- December 30 - John Todhunter, Irish
- date not known – William Little (Australian poet) (died 1916), Australian
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 21 - José María Heredia y Campuzano, Cuban
- July 15 - Winthrop Mackworth Praed (UK)
- Date not known:
