Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- April – Charles Baudelaire leaves Paris for Belgium in the hope of resolving his financial difficulties.
Works published
- William Allingham:
- Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland
- Editor, The Ballad Book, anthology
- Robert Browning, Dramatis Personae, including "Rabbi Ben Ezra" and "Caliban upon Setebos"
- Edward Hartley Dewart, Selections from Canadian Poets, the first anthology of Canadian poetry in English
- Samuel Ferguson, Lays of the Western Gael
- Robert Lowry, "Beautiful River"
- George MacDonald, Adela Cathcart, fairy tales, parables and poems
- Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Poems, including a memoir by Derwent Coleridge, posthumously published
- William Brighty Rands, anonymously published, Lilliput Levee, for children
- Joseph Skipsey, The Collier Lad and other Lyrics
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, Enoch Arden
Other
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 8 – Orelia Key Bell (died 1959), American
- May 4 – Richard Hovey (died 1900), American
- February 17 – Andrew "Banjo" Paterson (died 1941), Australian writer and poet
- April 30 (April 18 O.S.) – Juhan Liiv (died 1913), Estonian
- September 18 – ItÃ
 Sachio ä¼Âè¤ä½ÂÃ¥ÂÂ夫, pen name of ItÃ
 KojirÃ
 (died 1913), Japanese, Meiji period tanka poet and novelist (surname: ItÃ
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- September 29 – Miguel de Unamuno (died 1936), Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher
- November 26 – Herman Gorter (died 1927), Dutch poet and socialist
- November 30 – Sydney Jephcott (died 1951), Australian
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 13 – Stephen Foster (born 1826), American songwriter
- January 29 – Lucy Aikin (born 1781), English writer
- February 2 – Adelaide Anne Procter (born 1825), English poet, a daughter of poet Bryan Procter
- April 18 – Juris AlunÃÂns (born 1832), Latvian philologist and poet
- May 20 – John Clare (born 1793), English "peasant poet"
- July 4 – Nathaniel Hawthorne (born 1804), American writer
- July 6 – George Pope Morris (born 1802), American editor, poet and songwriter
- September 17 – Walter Savage Landor (born 1775), English writer and poet
- November 3 РGon̤alves Dias (born 1823), Brazilian (shipwreck)
See also
Notes