Overview of the events of 1859 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1859 in poetry
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Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 13 (January 8 OS) – Kostis Palamas (died 1943), Greek poet
- February 24 – Susie Frances Riley, Canadian poet[6]
- February 25 – James Kenneth Stephen (died 1892), English poet and tutor to Prince Albert Victor, son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
- March 26 – A. E. Housman (died 1936), English classical scholar and poet
- April 5 – William Herbert Carruth (died 1924), American educator and poet
- May 6 – Willem Kloos (died 1938), Dutch poet and critic
- June 10 – Jacques Perk (died 1881), Dutch poet
- June 12 – Guido Mazzoni (died 1943), Italian poet
- July 17 – Ernest Rhys (died 1946), English writer, essayist, poet, novelist, playwright and short-story writer best known as founding editor of Everyman's Library series of affordable classics
- July 25 – Minnie Gow Walsworth (died 1947), American poet
- August 12 – Katharine Lee Bates (died 1929), American poet best known as the author of the words to the anthem "America the Beautiful"; her poem "Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride" (1889) popularizes "Mrs. Santa Claus"
- September 19 – Annie Wall Barnett (died 1942), American poet
- November 2 – Augusta Peaux (died 1944), Dutch poet
- November 4 – Perceval Gibbon (died 1926), South African poet, short-story writer, author and journalist
- December 16 – Francis Thompson (died 1907) English poet
- Also – Narasinghrao (died 1937), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and writer[7]
Deaths
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- January 23 – Bettina von Arnim (born 1785), German writer, poet, composer and novelist
- January 23 – Iswarchandra Gupta (born 1811), Bengali poet and writer
- February 13 – Eliza Acton (born 1799), English poet and cook who produced one of the country's first cookbooks aimed at the domestic reader rather than the professional
- March 30 – James Matthews Legaré (born 1823), American poet and failed inventor
- April 3 – Reginald Heber (born 1783, English Anglican bishop, poet and hymn writer
- April 14 – Sydney, Lady Morgan, née Owenson (born about 1781), Irish novelist and poet
- July 23 – Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (born 1786), French
- August 28 – Leigh Hunt (born 1784), English critic, essayist, poet and writer
- November 28 – Washington Irving (born 1783) American author, essayist, biographer, historian and poet
- December 28 – Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (born 1800) English historian, Whig politician and poet