1855 in poetry

• June 12 – Gaisford Prize founded • September 27 – Alfred Tennyson reads from his new book Maud and other poems at a social gathering in the home of Robert and Elizabeth Browning in London; Dante Gabriel Rossetti makes a sketch of him doing so • Belarusian writer Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich publishes «Гапон» (Hapon) in the Russian Empire, the first poem written wholly in modern Belarusian. ==Works published==

===Canada=== • Charles Heavysege: • The Revolt of Tartarus, a poem in six parts (Montreal) • Sonnets (Montreal: H. & G.M. Rose) ===United Kingdom=== • William Allingham, The Music-Master, illustrated by Arthur Hughes, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and John Everett Millais • Matthew Arnold, Poems, Second Series (see also Poems 1853) • Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne, Poetical Works, posthumously published • Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, ==Births==

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • May 1 – Marie Corelli (Mary Mackay) (died 1924), English novelist • May 21 – Emile Verhaeren (died 1916), Belgian French • August 3 – Henry Cuyler Bunner (died 1896), American • September 12 – William Sharp (died 1905), Scottish poet writing as "Fiona Macleod" • December 15 – Maurice Bouchor (died 1929), French • December 28 – Juan Zorrilla de San Martín (died 1931), Uruguayan • Date not known: • Devendranath Sen (died 1920), Indian, Bengali-language poet • Govardhanram N. Tripathi (died 1907), Indian, Gujarati-language novelist and poet • Alexander Young, Scottish ==Deaths==

poet Adam Mickiewicz in a crypt under his apartment, now Adam Mickiewicz Museum, Istanbul (another museum dedicated to the poet is in Paris) Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • January 3 – János Majláth (born 1786), Hungarian • January 10 – Mary Russell Mitford (born 1787), English writer • January 25 – Dorothy Wordsworth (born 1771), English diarist and companion to her poet brother William • January 26 – Gérard de Nerval (born 1808), French • March 31 – Charlotte Brontë (born 1816), English novelist and poet • April 6 – Robert Davidson (born 1778), Scottish peasant poet • June 29 – Delphine de Girardin (born 1804), French writer • July 6 – Andrew Crosse (born 1784), English 'gentleman scientist' and poet • November 26 – Adam Mickiewicz (born 1798), Polish Romantic, dies in Istanbul while organizing Polish and Jewish volunteers to fight against Russia in the Crimean War • December 3 – Robert Montgomery (born 1807), English • December 18 – Samuel Rogers (born 1763), English • Date not known • Mahmud Gami (born 1765), Indian, Kashmiri • Sunthorn Phu (born 1786), Thai ==See also==