Overview of the events of 1845 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1845 in poetry
"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil — prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that Heaven that bends above us — by that God we both adore —
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore —
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore."
- Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
- — Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
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Births
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- February 19 – Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran, also known as Kerala Varma, (died 1914), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and translator; also wrote in Malayalam, English and Sanskrit[13]
- March 22 – John Banister Tabb (died 1909), American poet, Catholic priest and professor of English
- April 24 – Carl Spitteler (died 1924), Swiss
- April 30 – Alexander Anderson (died 1909), Scots
- May 13 – Emily Manning (died 1890), Australian
- May 14 – Louisa Sarah Bevington (died 1895), English poet and anarchist[14]
- May 17 – Jacint Verdaguer (died 1902), Spanish poet writing in Catalan
- July 18 – Tristan Corbière (died 1875), French
- July 26 – Martina Swafford (died 1913), American poet.
- August 10 – Abai Qunanbaiuly (died 1904), Kazakh poet, composer, philosopher and cultural reformer
- October 14 – Olindo Guerrini (died 1916), Italian
- October 21 – Will Carleton (died 1912), American
- December 30 – Thomas Edward Spencer (died 1910), Australian
Deaths
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