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

Events

Works published in English

United Kingdom

Isabella Banks, Ivy Leaves, including "Neglected Wife"
William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect^[1]
Frances Browne, The Star of Atteghei; The Vision of Schwartz, and Other Poems^[1]
Elizabeth Barrett (later Elizabeth Barrett Browning), Poems, including "A Drama of Exile" and ballads^[1]
Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, The Two Destinies^[1]
Frederick William Faber, Sir Lancelot^[1]
Leigh Hunt, What is Poetry?, critical essay^[2]
Monckton Milnes, Palm Leaves
Coventry Patmore, Poems^[1]

United States

Lydia Maria Child – "Over the River and Through the Wood"^[3]
James Freeman Clarke, Hymn Book for the Church of the Disciples (expanded edition, 1852)^[4]
Christopher Pearse Cranch, Poems^[4]
Samuel Henry Dickson, Poems, including his popular "I Sigh for the Land of the Cypress and Pine"^[5]
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet an essay of literary criticism in Essays, Second Series
Rufus Wilmot Griswold, The Poets and Poetry of England in the Nineteenth Century, anthology
Charles Fenno Hoffman, The Echo^[4]
William H. C. Hosmer, Yonnonidio, or Warriors of the Genesee^[4]
Sarah Anna Lewis, Records of the Heart^[4]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, editor, Poets and Poetry of Europe, anthology^[6]
James Russell Lowell, Poems^[4]
Epes Sargent, The Light of the Lighthouse and Other Poems
Lydia Maria Child, Flowers for Children, Volume 2, including "Over the River and Through the Woods", which was later set to music
Bayard Taylor, Ximena; or, The Battle of the Sierra Morena and Other Poems^[4]

Works published in other languages

Aleardo Aleardi, l' Arnalda di Roca ("Rock of Arnalda"), Italy
Heinrich Heine, German poet and author living in France:
- Neue Gedichte ("New Poems")^[7]
- Deutschland Ein Wintermarchen, long narrative poem on political and topics^[7]
Frederik Paludan-Müller, Denmark:
- Dryadens bryllup ("The Dryad's Wedding")
- Tithon ("Tithonus")
- Abels Død ("The Death of Abel")
Henrik Wergeland, Norway:
- Den Engelske Lods ("The English Pilot")
- Jødinden ("The Jewess")

Births

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

February 8 – Richard Watson Gilder (died 1909), American poet and editor
March 14 – Arthur O'Shaughnessy (died 1881), English poet and herpetologist
March 30 – Paul Verlaine (died 1896), French Symbolistt poet
March 31 – Andrew Lang (died 1912), Scottish writer
June 28 – John Boyle O'Reilly (died 1890), Irish-born American poet, journalist and fiction writer
July 21 – Matilda Maranda Crawford (died 1920), American-Canadian poet, writer, correspondent
July 28 – Gerard Manley Hopkins (died 1889), English poet and Jesuit priest
October 12 – George Washington Cable (died 1925), American novelist
October 13 – Ernest Myers (died 1921), English poet and classicist
October 23
- Robert Bridges (died 1939), English Poet Laureate
- Laura Rosamond White (died 1922), American poet, author, and editor
November 12 – Ismail Merathi (died 1917), Indian poet from Mughal and British era^[8]
November 21 – Ada Cambridge (died 1926), English writer and poet living in Australia after 1870
Date not known:
- Caroline Lindsay (died 1921), English
- Venmani Mahan Namboodiri (died 1893), Indian, Malayalam-language poet associated with the Venmani School of poetry^[9]
- Arabella Eugenia Smith (died 1916), American

Deaths

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

March 6 – Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, (born 1803), American poet and teacher^[10]
June 15 – Thomas Campbell (born 1777), Scottish poet especially of sentimental poetry dealing with human affairs
November 21 – Ivan Krylov (1769), Russian fabulist
Date not known – Margaret Miller Davidson, senior (born 1787), American novelist, mother of poets Lucretia Maria Davidson, Margaret Miller Davidson and Levi P. Davidson

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
^ Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce, Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830), p 98, Franklin, Burt, 1971, ISBN 978-0-8337-4046-5, retrieved via Google Books on February 13, 2010
^ "Lydia Maria Child". Wayland Historical Society. Archived from the original on September 30, 2015. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
^ ^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
^ Watson, Charles S., "Samuel Henry Dickson" article in Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary,, edited by Robert Bain, Joseph M. Flora and Louis D. Rubin, Jr., p 6, Louisiana State University Press, 1979, retrieved from Google Books on September 4, 2011
^ Calhoun, Charles C. Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8070-7026-2
^ ^a ^b Cook, Roger F., A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine, "Introduction", Boydell & Brewer, 2002, ISBN 978-1-57113-207-9, retrieved via Google Books on April 2, 2009
^ Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
^ Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009
^ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009