1857 in poetry
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Events
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I of Austria to his country, János Arany instead produces the subversive ballad The Bards of Wales (A walesi bárdok), unpublished until 1863.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
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 Lampson, London Lyrics (12 re-editions to 1893)
Denis MacCarthy, Underglimpses, and Other Poems
Theodore Martin, translated from Adam Oehlenschlager, Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Lamp
William Allen Butler, Nothing to Wear, published posthumously (first published anonymously in Harper's Weekly); 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)
