1857 in poetry

• Commissioned with other Hungarian poets to write a poem of praise for a visit of Franz Joseph I of Austria to his country, János Arany instead produces the subversive ballad The Bards of Wales (A walesi bárdok), unpublished until 1863. ==Works published in English==

===United Kingdom=== • Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, dated this year but first published at the end of 1856 • Edward Bulwer-Lytton, writing under the pen name "Owen Meredith", The Wanderer • Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Smith, Elder & Co., biography • Frederick Locker, London Lyrics (12 re-editions to 1893) • Denis MacCarthy, Underglimpses, and Other Poems the poem sold well, despite the financial panic; when a woman declared she was the author, the resulting controversy helped sales (see Mortimer Thomson's poem describing the controversy, below) • Paul Hamilton Hayne, Sonnets and Other Poems Nothing to Say: A Slight Slap at Mobocratic Snobbery, Which Has "Nothing to Do" with "Nothing to Wear" • James Lionel Michael, Songs without Music, lyrics, Australia ==Works published in other languages==

, with author's notes. • Théodore de Banville, , France • Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal ("Flowers of Evil"), France • Giosuè Carducci, , Italy • Rosalia de Castro, , Galician Spanish poet, writing in Spanish • Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Kalevipoeg, Estonia, revised version begins first publication • Jan Neruda, ("Cemetery Flowers"), Czech • Georgi Sava Rakovski – „Горски пътник“ (Gorski Patnik, A Traveller in the Woods or Forest Wanderer), Bulgarian poet published in Austria ==Births==

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • February 27 – Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux, née Robinson (died 1944), English-born poet and biographer • March 17 – Benjamin Franklin King, Jr. (died 1894), American poet • March 18 – Harriet Converse Moody (died 1932), American patron of the arts • April 11 – John Davidson (suicide 1909), Scottish poet and playwright • April 17 – Jane Barlow (died 1917), Irish poet and novelist • May 1 – T. W. Rolleston (died 1920), Irish-born writer, poet and translator • June 13 – Hubert Church (died 1932), Australian poet • September 22 – James Hebblethwaite (died 1921), Australian poet and clergyman • Undated – Kaikobad (কায়কোবাদ) (also spelt "Kaykobad" and also known as Mohakobi Kaikobad ("Kaikobad the great poet"), pen name of Kazem Al Quereshi (died 1951), Bengali poet ==Deaths==

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • February 9 – Dionysios Solomos Διονύσιος Σολωμός (born 1798), Greek poet best known for the Hymn to Liberty, the first two stanzas of which became the Greek national anthem • March 11 – Manuel José Quintana (born 1772), Spanish • April 11 – John Davidson (died 1909), Scottish poet and playwright • May 2 – Alfred de Musset (born 1810), French poet and novelist • June 25 – Isabella Kelly (born 1759), Scottish-born novelist and poet • October 14 – Alexander Laing (born 1787), Scottish poet • November 26 – Joseph von Eichendorff (born 1788), German poet and novelist • December 13 – Richard Furness, "The Poet of Eyam" (born 1791), English • Undated – Anna Ehrenström (born 1786), Swedish poet ==See also==