1846 in poetry

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Events

c. May 22 – The BrontÃÂ« sisters' first published work, the collection Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, is issued in London. It sells just two copies in the first year.
September 12 – Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning marry privately in St Marylebone Parish Church, London, departing for the continent a week later.

William Barnes, Poems, Partly of Rural Life
Robert Bell, ed., Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England
Charlotte BrontÃÂ«, Emily BrontÃÂ«, and Anne BrontÃÂ«, Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell
Robert Browning, Luria: a Tragedy; a Soul's Tragedy, volume 8 of Bells and Pomegranates (see also Bells and Pomegranates 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, and 1845)
John Burgon, Petra: a poem, to which a few short poems are now added
Henry Cary, Lives of English Poets, from Johnson to Kirke White, verse first published in the London Magazine from 1821 to 1824
Thomas Hood, Poems
John Keble, Lyra Innocentium: Thoughts in verse on Christian children
Edward Lear, writing under the pen name "Derry Down Derry", A Book of Nonsense, also illustrated by Lear; expanded in 1855, 1861, 1863 etc. (See also, Nonsense Songs 1870, dated 1871, More Nonsense 1872, Laughable Lyrics 1877
Carolina, Lady Nairne (died 1845), Lays from Strathern, Scottish

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

April 24 – Marcus Clarke (died 1881), Australian novelist and poet
May 25 – Naim FrashÃÂ«ri (died 1900), Albanian
August 17 – Alexander MacGregor Rose (died 1898), Scottish-born Canadian
August 28 – G. H. Gibson, "Ironbark" (died 1921), Australian
September 26 – Mary Hannay Foott (died 1918), Australian
October 9 – Holger Drachmann (died 1908), Danish
October 27 – Katherine Harris Bradley, half of "Michael Field" (died 1914), English

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 7 – John Hookham Frere (born 1769), English
February 14 (probable date) – Standish O'Grady (born before 1793), Irish-Canadian poet and priest
April 11 – Barron Field (born 1786), Anglo-Australian
May 14 – Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (born 1759), American
November 23 – George Darley (born 1795), Irish-born