Poet's Corner
Poetry Timeline 1800 - 1849
700-1699 | 1700-1799 | 1800-1849 | 1850-1899 | 1900-1924 | 1925-1949 | 1950-1974| 1975+
1800 (-1899)
The Gaelic Revival, a renewal of interest in Irish literature and language, takes place throughout much of the 19th century.
1802
William Wordsworth's
1803
- The anonymous ballad "Lord Randal" is published in the collection Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, edited by Walter Scott.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson is born.
1804
William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" is written in this year, and later published in his collection Poems in Two Volumes, 1807.
1806
Elizabeth Barrett Browning is born.
1807
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is born.
1809
- Oliver Wendell Holmes is born.
- Edgar Allan Poe is born.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson is born.
1809—1865
The Knickerbocker School, a group of American writers, flourishes between 1809 and 1865.
1812
Robert Browning is born.
1813
Robert Southey is named Poet Laureate of England.
1815
Lord Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib" and "She Walks in Beauty" are published in his collection Hebrew Melodies.
1817
- John Keats's "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" is published in his collection Poems.
- William Cullen Bryant's "Thanatopsis" is published in the September issue of the North American Review; later included in his collection Poems, 1821.
1818
John Keats's "When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be" is written in this year, but not published until 1848, in Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats, edited by Richard Moncton Milnes.
1819
- John Keats's "Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art" is written in this year, but not published until the September 27, 1838 issue of the Plymouth and Davenport Weekly Journal; then in Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats, edited by Richard Moncton Milnes.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" is published in his collection Rosalind and Helen: A Modern Eclogue, with Other Poems.
1819
Walt Whitman is born.
1820
- John Keats's "La Belle Dame sans Merci" is published in the May 10 issue of the Indicator; later included in Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats, edited by Richard Moncton Milnes.
- John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode to a Nightingale" and "To Autumn" are published in his collection Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" and "To a Skylark" are published in his Prometheus Unbound. A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems.
1821
- Lord Byron's "Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa" is written in this year, but not published until 1830, in his collection Letters and Journals.
- William Cullen Bryant's "To A Waterfowl" is published in his collection Poems.
- John Keats dies.
1822
- Percy Bysshe Shelley's "A Dirge" is written in this year and first published in Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1824.
- Matthew Arnold is born.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley dies.
1824
George Gordon, Lord Byron dies.
early to mid-19th century
The anonymous spiritual "Swing Low Sweet Chariot " is composed around this time.
1827
William Blake dies.
1828
Dante Gabriel Rossetti is born.
1830
- Oliver Wendell Holmes's "Old Ironsides" is published in the Boston Daily Advertiser; then in his collection Earlier Poems, 1836.
- Emily Dickinson is born.
- Christina Rossetti is born.
1830s-1860s
The flowering of American literature known as the American Renaissance begins in the 1830s and continues through the Civil War period.
1830-1855
Transcendentalism, an American philosophical and literary movement, is at its height during this period.
1832
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" is published in his collection Poems; it is later revised for his collection The Lady of Shallot and Other Poems, 1842.
- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) is born.
1833
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses" is written in this year, but not published until 1842, in his collection Poems.
1834
Samuel Taylor Coleridge dies.
1837 (-1901)
The Victorian Age begins with the coronation of Victoria as Queen of England, and continues until her death in 1901.
1839
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life" is published in his collection Voices of the Night.
1840
Thomas Hardy is born.
1842
- Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" is published in his collection Dramatic Lyrics.
- Sidney Lanier is born.
1843
William Wordsworth is named Poet Laureate of England.
1844
Gerard Manly Hopkins is born.
1845
- Robert Browning's "Home-Thoughts from Abroad" is published in his collection Bells and Pomegranates, No. VII: Dramatic Romances and Lyrics.
- Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" is published in his collection The Raven and Other Poems.
1847
- Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn" and "The Rhodora" are published in his collection Poems.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Tears, Idle Tears" is published as part of the long poem The Princess: A Medley.
1848
Edgar Allan Poe's "To Helen" is published in the November issue of Union Magazine; later included in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Rufus W. Griswold, 1850.
1848 – 1858
The Pre-Raphaelites, an influential group of English painters, forms in 1858 and remains together for about ten years.
1849
Edgar Allan Poe dies. "Eldorado" is published in the April 21 issue of The Flag of Our Union;"Annabel Lee" is published in the October 9 edition of the New York Tribune; "The Bells" is published in the November issue of Sartain's Union Magazine; all were later included in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Rufus W. Griswold, 1850.
Source: Exploring Poetry, Gale, 1997.