1851 in poetry

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

Events

June – While waiting to cross the English Channel on honeymoon, English poet Matthew Arnold probably begins to compose the poem "Dover Beach" (published 1867).

Works published in English

United Kingdom

• Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Poems Posthumous and Collected
• Edward Henry Bickersteth, Nineveh
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Casa Guidi Windows
• Caroline Clive, under the pen name "V", The Valley of the Rea
• Hartley Coleridge, Poems by Hartley Coleridge, edited by Derwent Coleridge (posthumous)
• George Meredith, Poems, including the first version of "Love in the Valley"

United States

• Thomas Holley Chivers, Eonchs of Ruby: A Gift of Love
• Theodore Sedgwick Fay, Ulric; or, The Voices
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Legend (republished under the title Christius 1872)
• William Wilberforce Lord, Christ in Hades
• Henry Theodore Tuckerman, Poems
• Frances Fuller Victor, with Metta Victoria Victor, Poems of Sentiment and Imagination
• William Ross Wallace, Meditations in America, and Other Poems

Works published in other languages

• Hilario Ascasubi, Santos Vega o los mellizos de la Flor, Spanish-language, Argentina
• Heinrich Heine, Romanzero, Germany
• Micah Joseph Lebensohn, Shire Bat Ẓiyyon, Hebrew-language, Lithuania

Births

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

• March 1 – Arthur Clement Hilton (died 1877), English
• May 8 – James Lister Cuthbertson (died 1910), Australian
• December 18 – John Farrell (died 1904), Australian
• December 20 – Thérèse Schwartze (died 1918), Dutch portrait painter and poet
• Date not known – Albery Allson Whitman (died 1901), African American

Deaths

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

• February 1 – Mary Shelley (born 1797), English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer and poet
• February 23 – Joanna Baillie (born 1762), Scottish poet and dramatist
• July 6 – David Macbeth Moir (born 1798), Scottish physician and writer
• October 31 (October 19 O.S.) – Petar II Petrović-NjegoÅ¡ (born 1813), Serbian poet and Prince-Bishop of Montenegro
• December 19 – Henry Luttrell (born 1768), English politician, wit and writer of society verse

See also

• 19th century in poetry
• 19th century in literature
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• Victorian literature
• French literature of the 19th century
• Poetry

Notes