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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

April 4 – William Wordsworth accepts the office of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (following the death of Robert Southey on March 21) on being assured that it is regarded as a purely honorific position.^[1]

R. S. Hawker, Reeds Shaken with the Wind^[2]
Thomas Hood, "The Song of the Shirt", a poem (published in the Christmas issue of Punch)^[2]
Richard Henry Horne, Orion: An epic poem^[2]

William Ellery Channing (poet), Poems, published at the expense of the author's friend Samuel Gray Ward; the volume is admired by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau but condemned by Edgar Allan Poe in "Our Amateur Poets", an essay in Graham's^[3]
Thomas Dunn English, "Ben Bolt", a popular ballad written for the New York Mirror and later set to music numerous times^[3]
William Lloyd Garrison, Sonnets^[4]
James Russell Lowell, Miscellaneous Poems
Cornelius Mathews, Poems on Man in His Various Aspects under the American Republic^[4]
William Gilmore Simms, Donna Florida, a verse tale; Charleston^[5]
James Gates Percival, The Dream of a Day^[4]
John Pierpont, The Anti-Slavery Poems of John Pierpont^[4]
Elizabeth Oakes Smith, The Sinless Child and Other Poems, acclaimed by critics, including Edgar Allan Poe^[3]
John Greenleaf Whittier, Lays of My Home and Other Poems, regional poetry, including "The Merrimack", "The Funeral Tree of the Sokokis", "The Ballad of Cassandra Southwick" and "Massachusetts to Virginia"^[3]
Nathaniel Parker Willis:
- The Sacred Poems^[4]
- Poems of Passion^[4]
- The Lady Jane and Other Poems^[4]

Hilario Ascasubi, El gaucho Jacinto Cielo con doce números, Argentina
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Bouquets et prières, France^[6]
Christian Winther, Til Een ("To Someone"); see also revised edition 1849; Denmark^[7]
Gonçalves Dias, "Canção do exílio", Brazil
Mikhail Lermontov, "Valerik", Russia, posthumously in the anthology Dawn
Betty Paoli, Nach dem Gewitter ("After the Storm"), Austria

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

February 24 – Violet Fane, pen name of Lady Mary Currie, née Mary Montgomerie Lamb (died 1905), English novelist, poet and essayist
May 3 – Edward Dowden (died 1913), Irish-born poet and critic
August 19 – Charles Montagu Doughty (died 1926), English poet, writer and traveller
December 7 – Helena Nyblom, née Roed (died 1926), Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales
December 21 – Thomas Bracken (died 1898), Irish-born New Zealander
December 24 (December 12 O.S.) – Lydia Koidula, born Lydia Jannsen (died 1886), Estonian
Undated – Dimitrios Paparrigopoulos (died 1873), Greek

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 11 – Francis Scott Key (born 1779), American lawyer, author, and amateur poet who wrote the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner"
March 21 – Robert Southey (born 1774), English Poet Laureate
June 6 – Friedrich Hölderlin (born 1770), German lyric poet
July 9 – Washington Allston, 63 (born 1779), American poet and painter^[8]
December 11 - Casimir Delavigne (born 1793), French poet and dramatist

^ Pinion, F. B. (1988). A Wordsworth Chronology. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press. p. 201. ISBN 0-333-38860-7.
^ ^a ^b ^c Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Simms, William Gilmore" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 123.
^ Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950, Penguin, 1992, ISBN 978-0-14-042385-3
^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
^ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009