Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published in English
- Cecil Frances Alexander, The Baron's Little Daughter, and Other Tales in Prose and Verse
- William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, Scotland
- John Stanyan Bigg, The Sea-King
- Arthur Hugh Clough, The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich: A Long-Vacation Pastoral
- Robert Davidson, Leaves from a Peasant's Cottage Drawer, Scotland
- Aubrey Thomas de Vere, English Misrule and Irish Deeds
- Dora Greenwell, Poems
- John Keats, Ode on Indolence first published, posthumously (the author died in 1821)
- Charles Kingsley, The Saint's Tragedy
- Walter Savage Landor, The Italics of Walter Savage Landor
- Monckton Milnes, Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats
- John Quincy Adams, Poems of Religion and Society
- Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Female Poets of America, anthology
- Henry Beck Hirst, Endymion
- James Russell Lowell:
- The Biglow Papers (1848)
- A Fable for Critics: A Glance at a Few of Our Literary Progenies, book-length poem published as a pamphlet
- Poems: Second Series
- The Vision of Sir Launfal
- Fitz-Greene Halleck, The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck, Now First Collected, New York: D. Appleton & Company
- James Mathewes Legare, Orta-Undis, and Other Poems, the only book of poetry published in the author's lifetime; Boston: Ticknor and Company, printed at the author's expense
- Edgar Allan Poe, ', United States
- Adrien Rouquette, Wild Flowers: Sacred Poetry
- William Gilmore Simms:
- The Eye and the Wing, New York
- Lays of the Palmetto: a Tribute to the South Carolina Regiment in the War with Mexico, Charleston
- The Cassique of Accabee
- Charleston and Her Satirists: A Scribblement
- William Ross Wallace, Alban the Pirate
Works published in other languages
- José Bonifácio, Rosas e Goivos ("Roses and Cresses"), Brazil
- James Huston, editor, Le répertoire national, anthology of French Canadian poetry in four volumes, published from this year to 1850, including poetry by Joseph Mermet ("Les Boucheries: fêtes rurales du Canada"), Isidore Bédard ("Sol canadien, terre chérie"), François-Xavier Garneau, Napoléon Aubin, François-Magloire Derome and Pierre Chauveau
- Andreas Munch, Digte, gamle og nye, Norway
- Johan Ludvig Runeberg, The Tales of Ensign StÃÂ¥l (Swedish original title: , ), first part, Finland
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 19 – Isaac D'Israeli (born 1766), English scholar and man of letters
- February 11 – Thomas Cole (born 1801), English-born American landscape painter and occasional poet
- February 23 – John Quincy Adams (born 1767), American statesman, sixth President of the United States
- May 25 – Annette von Droste-Hulshoff (born 1797), German author and poet
- August 14 – Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (born 1805), English religious poet (tuberculosis)
- September 24 – Branwell Brontë (born 1817), English painter, writer and poet (tuberculosis)
- December 19 – Emily Brontë (born 1818), English novelist and poet (tuberculosis)
- Undated – Ann Batten Cristall (born c. 1769), English
- Undated – Leyla Khanim, Turkish woman poet
See also
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