Overview of the events of 1847 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1847 in poetry
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Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 8 – Matei Donici (died 1921), Bessarabian Romanian poet and Imperial Russian Army general
- February 10 – Nabinchandra Sen নবীনচন্দ্র সেন (died 1909), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and writer
- April 7 – Jens Peter Jacobsen (died 1885), Danish poet[7]
- September 22 –- Alice Meynell, née Thompson (died 1922), English poet, writer, editor, critic and suffragist
- December 1 – Julia A. Moore, the "Sweet Singer of Michigan" (died 1920), American poetaster
- Date not known – Brij Raj (died 1919), Indian, Dogri-Pahadi Brajbhasha poet[8]
Deaths
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- July 21 – William Shepherd (born 1768), English dissenting minister, politician, poet and writer
- September 10 – Richard Henry Wilde (born 1789), Irish-born American lawyer, politician and poet
- November 20 – Henry Francis Lyte (born 1793), Scottish-born English Anglican divine and hymn-writer
- December 30 – Sima Milutinović Sarajlija (born 1791), Bosnian–Serbian poet, hajduk, translator, historian, philologist, diplomat and adventurer
- Date not known – Liang Desheng (born 1771), Chinese poet and writer during the Qing Dynasty