1847 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

 * April
 * Robert Browning settles with his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Florence
 * Young Romanian poet Vasile Alecsandri's beloved, Elena Negri, dies in his arms onboard a ship in the Mediterranean; he channels his mourning into a poem, "Steluța" ('Little Star')
 * Between July and October – Rev. Henry Francis Lyte composes the hymn "Abide with Me" a few months before his death
 * September 16 – William Shakespeare's house of birth in Stratford-upon-Avon in England is bought by the United Shakespeare Company for preservation; this year also, Schiller's house in Weimar is opened to the public as a museum

United Kingdom

 * Edwin Atherstone, The Fall of Nineveh, enlarged (from the 1828 edition) to 30 books
 * Richard Harris Barham, writing under the pen name "Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.", The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels, verse fiction; illustrated by George Cruikshank 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
 * Mary Fawler Maude, "Thine for ever! God of love"
 * 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 Tennyson's The Princess, including "Tears, Idle Tears"

United States

 * William Ellery Channing, Poems, Second Series
 * Philip Pendleton Cooke, Froissart Ballads, and Other Poems, Philadelphia: Cary and Hart
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems
 * Fitz-Greene Halleck, The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck
 * Charles Fenno Hoffman, Love's Calendar; Lays of the Hudson and Other Poems
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
 * Epes Sargent, Songs of the Sea With Other Poems
 * William Wetmore Story, Poems

Works published in other languages

 * Heinrich Heine, Atta Troll, German long narrative poem on political and cultural topics
 * Raja Ali Haji or his sister Saleha, Syair Abdul Muluk, Malay syair
 * Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Prince-Bishop of Montenegro, The Mountain Wreath (Горски вијенац, Gorski vijenac), Serbian epic verse drama

Births
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 * 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
 * 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

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