Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published
- Edwin Atherstone, The Fall of Nineveh
- Laman Blanchard, Lyric Offerings
- William Lisle Bowles, Days Departed; or, Banwell Hill, a lay of the Severn Sea
- Mary Ann Browne, Ada, and Other Poems
- Thomas Campbell, The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge
- Felicia Hemans, Records of Women, with Other Poems
- John Gibson Lockhart, Life of Robert Burns, biography
- Robert Montgomery, The Omnipresence of the Deity
- Catherine Eliza Richardson, Poems
- Samuel Rogers, Italy: a Poem. Part the Second (Part the First published in 1822)
- Joseph Blanco White, "Night and Death"
Other
- Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, The Fakeer of Jungheera: A Metrical Tale and Other Poems, Calcutta: Samuel Smith and Co.; India, Indian poetry in English
- Adam Mickiewicz, Konrad Wallenrod, a long narrative poem set in 14th-century Lithuania; Poland
- Gérard de Nerval, translator, Faust, translation into French from the original German of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's long poem; the work earned Nerval his reputation; it was praised by Goethe, and Hector Berlioz later used sections for his legend-symphony La Damnation de Faust
- Christian Winther, Traesnitt ("Woodcuts"); Denmark
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 12 – George Meredith (died 1909), English novelist and poet
- April 1 – Roderick Flanagan (died 1862), Irish-born Australian journalist, poet and historian
- May 12 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti (died 1882), English Pre-Raphaelite painter and poet
- May 25 – James McIntyre (died 1906), Scottish-born Canadian "Poet of Cheese"
- August 19 – Arthur Munby (died 1910), English diarist, poet, portrait photographer and lawyer
- September 15 – Dolores Cabrera y Heredia (died 1899), Spanish Romantic poet and novelist, member of Hermandad LÃÂrica
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 5 – Kobayashi Issa å°ÂæÂÂä¸Âè¶ (born 1763), Japanese poet and Buddhist priest known for his haiku poems and journals; widely regarded as one of the four haiku masters in Japan, along with BashÃ
Â, Buson and Shiki
- January 26 – Lady Caroline Lamb (born 1785), English aristocrat, novelist and poet
- April 11 – Edward Coote Pinkney (born 1802), English-born American poet, lawyer, sailor, professor and editor
- June 21 – Leandro Fernández de MoratÃÂn (born 1760), Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet
- September 26 – John Gardiner Calkins Brainard (born 1795), American lawyer, editor and poet
- date not known – Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins (born 1763), English novelist and occasional poet
See also
Notes