1830 in Poetry - Births

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• January 1 - Paul Hamilton Hayne (died 1886) Southern American poet, critic, and editor
• May 5 - Thomas Edward Brown (died 1897), Manx poet, scholar and theologian
• September 8 - Frédéric Mistral, French poet who led the 19th century revival of Occitan (Provençal) language and literature, a key figure in the literary félibrige movement, and one of two winners of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature for his contributions in literature and philology.
• October 18 - Helen Hunt Jackson (died 1885) American poet and writer
• December 5 - Christina Rossetti (died 1894) English poet
• December 10 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (died 1886)
• December 23 - Charlotte Alington Barnard (died 1869) English poet and composer of ballads and hymns
• December 31 - Alexander Smith — Scottish poet labelled as one of the Spasmodic School
• date not known:
  • James M. Whitfield, American