1847 in poetry

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Events

• Henry Francis Lyte composes Abide with Me

Works published in English

United Kingdom

• Edwin Atherstone, The Fall of Nineveh, enlarged (from the 1828 edition) to 30 booksCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
• Richard Harris Barham, writing under the pen name "Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.", The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels, verse fiction; illustrated by George Cruickshank and John Leech (see also Ingoldsby Legends 1840, 1842)
• Caroline Clive, writing under the pen name "V", The Queen's Ball
• Walter Savage Landor, The Hellenics of Walter Savage Landor
• Christina Rossetti, Verses by Christina G. Rossetti
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Mary Shelley; posthumous
• Robert Southey and Caroline Southey, Robin Hood
• Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Princess, including "Tears, Idle Tears"

United States

• William Ellery Channing, Poems, Second SeriesLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University......
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