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

Events edit

January - "What is Poetry? And What Is It Good For?" essay by John Neal published in Sartain's Union Magazine^[1]
November 14 - A public festival is held in Denmark to celebrate the 70th birthday of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger
La Tribune des Peuples, a pan-European romantic nationalist periodical, is published between March and November by Adam Mickiewicz.

Cecil Frances Alexander, Moral Songs^[2]
Matthew Arnold, writing under the pen name "A", The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems^[2]
William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, and Other Poems^[2]
Robert Browning, Poems, his first collected edition^[2]
Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, King Arthur, first published in three parts, 1848–1849^[2]
Edward Caswall, Lyra Catholica^[2]
A. H. Clough, Ambarvalia^[2]
Robert Southey, all posthumously published:
- Southey's Common-place Book: First Series, and Second Series (each series in a separate volume), edited by John Wood Warter, poetry and prose^[2]
- The Life and Correspondence of the Late Robert Southey, edited by Cuthbert Southey, biography^[2]
Isaac Williams, The Christian Scholar^[2]

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

July 22 - Emma Lazarus (died 1887), American
July 30 - Lettie S. Bigelow (died 1906), American
August 1 - William Larminie (died 1900), Irish poet and folklorist
August 23 - William Ernest Henley (died 1903), English poet, critic and editor
September 3 - Sarah Orne Jewett (died 1909), American regional fiction writer and poet
September 21 - Edmund Gosse (died 1928), English poet, critic and memoirist
October 7 - James Whitcomb Riley (died 1916), American dialect poet
November 18 - Libbie C. Riley Baer (died 1929), American patriotic poet
December 23 - Stine Andresen (died 1927), German

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

January 6 - Hartley Coleridge (born 1796), English poet and writer
January 26 - Thomas Lovell Beddoes (born 1803), English poet, dramatist and physician
February 8 - France Prešeren (born 1800), Slovenian Romantic poet
February 19 - Bernard Barton (born 1784), English Quaker poet
May 28 - Anne Brontë (born 1820), English novelist and poet (tuberculosis)
June 20 - James Clarence Mangan (born 1803), Irish poet (cholera)
July 7 - Goffredo Mameli (born 1827), Italian patriot and poet
July 31 - Sándor Petőfi (born 1823), Hungarian poet and revolutionary (probably killed in Battle of Segesvár)
October 7 - Edgar Allan Poe (born 1809), American short-story writer, poet and editor
December 1 - Ebenezer Elliott (born 1781), English "Corn Law rhymer"
date unknown — Cynthia Taggart (born 1801), American poet

^ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 147. ISBN 080-5-7723-08.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
^ Fields, James T., Poems, title page, Boston: William D. Ticknor and Company, retrieved via Making of America website on March 4, 2009
^ Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.