1840 in poetry

1840 in poetry

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Events

Works published

* Robert Browning's "Sordello"
* Mikhail Lermontov's "The Novice"
* Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Defence of Poetry", posthumously published

Births

* January 18 Henry Austin Dobson (UK)
* March 1 - Constance Fenimore Woolson (US)
* March 18 - William Cosmo Monkhouse (UK)
* June 2 - Thomas Hardy (UK)
* August 17 Wilfred Scawen Blunt (UK)
* October 5 - John Addington Symonds (UK)

Deaths

ee also

*Poetry


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