Events
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson becomes Poet Laureate after Samuel Rogers turns down the post, saying he was too old for it.
- Golden Age of Russian Poetry, begun in about 1800 ends at about this time
- Young Germany (Junges Deutschland) a loose group of German writers from about 1830, stops flourishing at about this time
Read more about this topic: 1850 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word events:
“Just as a mirror may be used to reflect images, so ancient events may be used to understand the present.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)