title: 1843 in poetry
text: # 1843 in poetry
  
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
  
  ## Events
  
  * April 4 – William Wordsworth accepts the office of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (following the death of Robert Southey on March 21) on being assured that it is regarded as a purely honorific position.
  
  ## Works published
  
  ### United Kingdom
  
  * R. S. Hawker, Reeds Shaken with the Wind
  * Thomas Hood, "The Song of the Shirt", a poem (published in the Christmas issue of Punch)
  * Richard Henry Horne, Orion: An epic poem
  
  ### United States
  
  * William Ellery Channing (poet), Poems, published at the expense of the author's friend Samuel Gray Ward; the volume is admired by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau but condemned by Edgar Allan Poe in "Our Amateur Poets", an essay in Graham's
  * Thomas Dunn English, "Ben Bolt", a popular ballad written for the New York Mirror and later set to music numerous times
  * William Lloyd Garrison, Sonnets
  * James Russell Lowell, Miscellaneous Poems
  * Cornelius Mathews, Poems on Man in His Various Aspects under the American Republic
  * William Gilmore Simms, Donna Florida, a verse tale; Charleston
  * James Gates Percival, The Dream of a Day
  * John Pierpont, The Anti-Slavery Poems of John Pierpont
  * Elizabeth Oakes Smith, The Sinless Child and Other Poems, acclaimed by critics, including Edgar Allan Poe
  * John Greenleaf Whittier, Lays of My Home and Other Poems, regional poetry, including "The Merrimack", "The Funeral Tree of the Sokokis", "The Ballad of Cassandra Southwick" and "Massachusetts to Virginia"
  * Nathaniel Parker Willis:
     * The Sacred Poems
     * Poems of Passion
     * The Lady Jane and Other Poems
  
  ### Other
  
  * Hilario Ascasubi, El gaucho Jacinto Cielo con doce números, Argentina
  * Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Bouquets et prières, France
  * Christian Winther, Til Een ("To Someone"); see also revised edition 1849; Denmark
  * Gonçalves Dias, "Canção do exílio", Brazil
  * Mikhail Lermontov, "Valerik", Russia, posthumously in the anthology Dawn
  * Betty Paoli, Nach dem Gewitter ("After the Storm"), Austria
  
  ## Births
  
  Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * February 24 – Violet Fane, pen name of Lady Mary Currie, née Mary Montgomerie Lamb (died 1905), English novelist, poet and essayist
  * May 3 – Edward Dowden (died 1913), Irish-born poet and critic
  * August 19 – Charles Montagu Doughty (died 1926), English poet, writer and traveller
  * December 7 – Helena Nyblom, née Roed (died 1926), Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales
  * December 21 – Thomas Bracken (died 1898), Irish-born New Zealander
  * December 24 (December 12 O.S.) – Lydia Koidula, born Lydia Jannsen (died 1886), Estonian
  * Undated – Dimitrios Paparrigopoulos (died 1873), Greek
  
  ## Deaths
  
  Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * January 11 – Francis Scott Key (born 1779), American lawyer, author, and amateur poet who wrote the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner"
  * March 21 – Robert Southey (born 1774), English Poet Laureate
  * June 6 – Friedrich Hölderlin (born 1770), German lyric poet
  * July 9 – Washington Allston, 63 (born 1779), American poet and painter
  * December 11 - Casimir Delavigne (born 1793), French poet and dramatist
  