1840 in poetry

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Events

Works published in English

United Kingdom

• Thomas Aird, Orthuriel, and Other PoemsCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
• Matthew Arnold, Alaric at Rome
• Robert Browning, Sordello
• Caroline Clive, under the pen name "V", IX Poems by 'V'
• Thomas De Quincey, Recollections of the Lake Poets, final two essays on the Lake Poets published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (first essay published in 1836; see also Recollections 1835, 1839):
• "Westmoreland and the Dalesmen," January
• "Society of the Lakes, I, II, and III," January, March, and June
• Frederick William Faber, The Cherwell Water-Lily, and Other Poems
• Thomas Moore, The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, in 10 volumes, published starting this year and ending in 1841; Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• Robert Owen, The Social Bible
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Mary Shelley, Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments, including the essay "Defence of Poetry", posthumously published
• William Wordsworth, The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, six volumes (see also reprint......
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