1839 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• William Wordsworth granted an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree by Oxford University.

Works published

United Kingdom

• Philip James Bailey, Festus, reprinted in numerous editions up to 1889, when the 50th anniversary edition was publishedCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
• Thomas De Quincey, biographical essays on the Lake Poets in the series Recollections of the Lake Poets, in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (see also Recollections 1834, 1835, 1840):
• "William Wordsworth," January, February, and April
• "William Wordsworth and Robert Southey," July
• "Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge," August
• "Recollections of Grasmere," September
• "The Saracen's Head," December
• Henry Hart Milman, Poetical Works
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, posthumous works (died 1822):
• The Poetical Works 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 (reprinted in 1847)
• England in 1819, a political sonnet composed in 1819, first published
• The 'Pearl Poet', Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a......
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