1837 in poetry
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Events

• John Clare is institutionalized as insane.
• The United States Magazine and Democratic Review established, a political and literary magazine that published Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau and others.

Works

• Richard Harris Barham's Ingoldsby Legends
• Eliza Cook's The Old Arm Chair
• Alphonse de Lamartine's Chute d'un ange
• George Moses Horton's Hope of Liberty -- Poems by a Slave (2nd edn.; first published as early as 1829)
• Thomas Love Peacock's The Paper Money Lyrics

Births

March 6 - Sully Prudhomme, poet (+ 1907)

• March 1 - William Dean Howells (US)
• March 6 - Sully Prudhomme (France) (d. 1907)
• April 5 - Algernon Charles Swinburne (UK)
• September 8 - Joaquin Miller (US)

Date unknown:

• Julia Augusta Webster
• Forceythe Willson (US)

Deaths

• January 29 - Aleksandr Pushkin (Russian), killed in a duel
• June 14 - Giacomo Leopardi (Italian)
• September 8 - Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (UK)

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry