# 1843 in poetry

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

## Events

* April 4 – William Wordsworth accepts the office of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (following the death of Robert Southey on March 21) on being assured that it is regarded as a purely honorific position.

## Works published
### United Kingdom

* R. S. Hawker, Reeds Shaken with the Wind
* Thomas Hood, "The Song of the Shirt", a poem (published in the Christmas issue of Punch)
* Richard Henry Horne, Orion: An epic poem

### United States

* William Ellery Channing (poet), Poems, published at the expense of the author's friend Samuel Gray Ward; the volume is admired by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau but condemned by Edgar Allan Poe in "Our Amateur Poets", an essay in Graham's
* Thomas Dunn English, "Ben Bolt", a popular ballad written for the New York Mirror and later set to music numerous times
* William Lloyd Garrison, Sonnets
* James Russell Lowell, Miscellaneous Poems
* Cornelius Mathews, Poems on Man in His Various Aspects under the American Republic
* William Gilmore Simms, Donna Florida, a verse tale; Charleston
* James Gates Percival, The Dream of a Day
* John Pierpont, The Anti-Slavery Poems of John Pierpont
* Elizabeth Oakes Smith, The Sinless Child and Other Poems, acclaimed by critics, including Edgar Allan Poe
* John Greenleaf Whittier, Lays of My Home and Other Poems, regional poetry, including "The Merrimack", "The Funeral Tree of the Sokokis", "The Ballad of Cassandra Southwick" and "Massachusetts to Virginia"
* Nathaniel Parker Willis:
** The Sacred Poems
** Poems of Passion
** The Lady Jane and Other Poems

### Other

* Hilario Ascasubi, El gaucho Jacinto Cielo con doce números, Argentina
* Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Bouquets et prières, France
* Christian Winther, Til Een ("To Someone"); see also revised edition 1849; Denmark
* Gonçalves Dias, "Canção do exílio", Brazil
* Mikhail Lermontov, "Valerik", Russia, posthumously in the anthology Dawn
* Betty Paoli, Nach dem Gewitter ("After the Storm"), Austria

## Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* February 24 – Violet Fane, pen name of Lady Mary Currie, née Mary Montgomerie Lamb (died 1905), English novelist, poet and essayist
* May 3 – Edward Dowden (died 1913), Irish-born poet and critic
* August 19 – Charles Montagu Doughty (died 1926), English poet, writer and traveller
* December 7 – Helena Nyblom, née Roed (died 1926), Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales
* December 21 – Thomas Bracken (died 1898), Irish-born New Zealander
* December 24 (December 12 O.S.) – Lydia Koidula, born Lydia Jannsen (died 1886), Estonian
* Undated – Dimitrios Paparrigopoulos (died 1873), Greek

## Deaths

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* January 11 – Francis Scott Key (born 1779), American lawyer, author, and amateur poet who wrote the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner"
* March 21 – Robert Southey (born 1774), English Poet Laureate
* June 6 – Friedrich Hölderlin (born 1770), German lyric poet
* July 9 – Washington Allston, 63 (born 1779), American poet and painter
* December 11 - Casimir Delavigne (born 1793), French poet and dramatist