Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Andreas Munch becomes the first person to be granted a poet's pension by the Parliament of Norway. Works published in English Canada Charles Heavysege, Count Filippo Charles Sangster, Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics United Kingdom Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems Before Congress Samuel Lover, Metrical Tales, and Other Poems, illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne, Kenney Meadows and others Coventry Patmore, Faithful for Ever (The Angel in the House, Volume 3; see also The Betrothal 1854, The Espousals 1856, The Victories of Love 1863) John Leicester Warren, writing under the pen name "George F. Preston", Ballads and Metrical Sketches United States William Turner Coggeshall, editor, Poets and Poetry of the West, anthology Paul Hamilton Hayne, Avolio: A Legend of the Island of Cos Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Professor at the Breakfast-Table, fiction, nonfiction and verse William Dean Howells and John James Piatt, Poems of Two Friends Adrien Rouquette, L'Antoniade, ou la solitude avec Dieu Edmund Clarence Stedman, Poems, Lyrical and Idyllic Henry Timrod, Poems Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, third edition John Greenleaf Whittier, Home Ballads, Poems, and Lyrics Other C. J. Carleton, South Australian Lyrics, Australia John Anthony Moore, Tasmanian Rhymings, Australia Works published in other languages Charles Baudelaire, Les paradis artificiels ("Artificial Paradise"), France Gul Bakhsh, Kukikatar Puthi (কুকি কাটার পুঁথি), Bengali Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Poésies inédites (posthumous) Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Tilottama Sambhab Kabya (তিলোত্তমাসম্ভব কাব্য, "Birth of Tilottama"), Bengali Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 10 – Charles G. D. Roberts (died 1943), Canadian poet and writer known as the "Father of Canadian Poetry" because he serves as an inspiration for other writers of his time; also known as one of the "Confederation poets" (together with his cousin Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott) June 1 – Wilfred Campbell (died 1918), Canadian August 5 – John Philip Bourke (died 1914), Australian September 6 – Lorentzos Mavilis (died 1912), Greek September 14 – Hamlin Garland, (died 1940), American novelist, poet, essayist and short story writer September 18 – Clinton Scollard (died 1932), American October 6 – Rosamund Marriott Watson, born Rosamund Ball and writing as Graham R. Tomson (died 1911), English December 8 – Amanda McKittrick Ros, born Anna McKittrick (died 1939), Irish novelist and poet noted for her purple style December 12