Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published in English
- Edwin Atherstone, The Fall of Nineveh, enlarged (from the 1828 edition) to 30 books
- Richard Harris Barham, writing under the pen name "Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.", The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels, verse fiction; illustrated by George Cruikshank and John Leech (see also Ingoldsby Legends 1840, 1842)
- Caroline Clive, writing under the pen name "V", The Queen's Ball
- Walter Savage Landor, The Hellenics of Walter Savage Landor
- Mary Fawler Maude, "Thine for ever! God of love"
- Christina Rossetti, Verses by Christina G. Rossetti
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Mary Shelley; posthumous
- Robert Southey and Caroline Southey, Robin Hood
- Alfred Tennyson's The Princess, including "Tears, Idle Tears"
- William Ellery Channing, Poems, Second Series
- Philip Pendleton Cooke, Froissart Ballads, and Other Poems, Philadelphia: Cary and Hart
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems
- Fitz-Greene Halleck, The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck
- Charles Fenno Hoffman, Love's Calendar; Lays of the Hudson and Other Poems
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
- Epes Sargent, Songs of the Sea With Other Poems
- William Wetmore Story, Poems
Works published in other languages
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 8 – Matei Donici (died 1921), Bessarabian Romanian poet and Imperial Russian Army general
- February 10 – Nabinchandra Sen à ¦¨à ¦¬à §Âà ¦¨à ¦Âà ¦¨à §Âà ¦¦à §Âà ¦° à ¦¸à §Âà ¦¨ (died 1909), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and writer
- April 7 – Jens Peter Jacobsen (died 1885), Danish poet
- September 22 –- Alice Meynell, née Thompson (died 1922), English poet, writer, editor, critic and suffragist
- December 1 – Julia A. Moore, the "Sweet Singer of Michigan" (died 1920), American poetaster
- Date not known – Brij Raj (died 1919), Indian, Dogri-Pahadi Brajbhasha poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- July 21 – William Shepherd (born 1768), English dissenting minister, politician, poet and writer
- September 10 – Richard Henry Wilde (born 1789), Irish-born American lawyer, politician and poet
- November 20 – Henry Francis Lyte (born 1793), Scottish-born English Anglican divine and hymn-writer
- December 30 – Sima MilutinoviÃÂ Sarajlija (born 1791), Bosnian–Serbian poet, hajduk, translator, historian, philologist, diplomat and adventurer
- Date not known – Liang Desheng (born 1771), Chinese poet and writer during the Qing Dynasty
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