title: 1853 in poetry
text: # 1853 in poetry
  
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
  
  ## Events
  
  * October 27 – English poet Alfred Tennyson settles at Farringford House on the Isle of Wight.
  
  ## Works published in English
  
  ### United Kingdom
  
  * Mrs. Cecil Frances Alexander, Narratyve Hymns for Village Schools
  * Matthew Arnold, Poems: a New Edition, the first collected edition of the author's poems; known as Poems: First Series (see also 1855); including "Sobrab and Rustum" and "The Scholar Gipsy"
  * R. D. Blackmore, writing under the pen name "Melanter", Poems by Melanter
  * Martha Browne, (a.k.a. Mattie Griffith) Poems
  * Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems (see also Poems 1844, 1850, 1856)
  * Caroline Clive, writing under the pen name "V", The Morlas
  * Sydney Dobell, Balder
  * Coventry Patmore, Tamerton Church-Tower (see also 1878)
  * Alexander Smith, Poems, Scottish poet
  
  ### United States
  
  * Thomas Holley Chivers:
     * Atlanta; or, the True Blessed Island of Poesy, a Paul Epic
     * Memoralia; or, Phials of Amber Full of the Tears of Love
     * Virginalia; or, Songs of My Summer Nights
  * Samuel Longfellow, Thalatta: A Book for the Sea-side, compiled with Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  * Lydia Huntley Sigourney, The Faded Hope
  * William Gilmore Simms, Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, in two volumes, Charleston, South Carolina: John Russell
  * Sarah Helen Whitman, Hours of Life
  * John Greenleaf Whittier, The Chapel of the Hermits
  
  ### Other
  
  * Peter John Allan (died 1848), Poetical Remains of Peter John Allan, Esq., Canadian poet published in London
  * Charles Harpur, The Bushrangers: a Play in Five Acts, and other Poems, Australia
  
  ## Works published in other languages
  
  * Hilario Ascasubi, Aniceto el Gallo, Argentina
  * Álvares de Azevedo, Lira dos Vinte Anos, Brazil (posthumous)
  * Paul Heyse, Lieder aus Sorrent ("Songs of Sorrento"), Germany
  * Victor Hugo, Les Châtiments, France
  * Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Kalevipoeg, Estonia (suppressed due to censorship)
  
  ## Births
  
  Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * February 18 - Ernest Fenollosa, American (died 1908)
  * October 4 - Jane Maria Read, American poet and teacher (year of death unknown)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * February 3 – August Kopisch, German poet and painter (born 1799)
  * April 28 – Ludwig Tieck, German (born 1773)
  * October 27 – Maria White Lowell, American (born 1821)
  * December 2 – Amelia Opie, English novelist, writer and poet (born 1769)
  * Dayaram, Indian, Gujarati-language poet (born 1757)
  