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

Events

Works published in English

United Kingdom

• Isabella Banks, Ivy Leaves, including "Neglected Wife"
• William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect^[1]
• Frances Browne, The Star of Atteghei; The Vision of Schwartz, and Other Poems^[1]
• Elizabeth Barrett (later Elizabeth Barrett Browning), Poems, including "A Drama of Exile" and ballads^[1]
• Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, The Two Destinies^[1]
• Frederick William Faber, Sir Lancelot^[1]
• Leigh Hunt, What is Poetry?, critical essay^[2]
• Monckton Milnes, Palm Leaves
• Coventry Patmore, Poems^[1]

United States

• Lydia Maria Child – "Over the River and Through the Wood"^[3]
• James Freeman Clarke, Hymn Book for the Church of the Disciples (expanded edition, 1852)^[4]
• Christopher Pearse Cranch, Poems^[4]
• Samuel Henry Dickson, Poems, including his popular "I Sigh for the Land of the Cypress and Pine"^[5]
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet an essay of literary criticism in Essays, Second Series
• Rufus Wilmot Griswold, The Poets and Poetry of England in the Nineteenth Century, anthology
• Charles Fenno Hoffman, The Echo^[4]
• William H. C. Hosmer, Yonnonidio, or Warriors of the Genesee^[4]
• Sarah Anna Lewis, Records of the Heart^[4]
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, editor, Poets and Poetry of Europe, anthology^[6]
• James Russell Lowell, Poems^[4]
• Epes Sargent, The Light of the Lighthouse and Other Poems
• Lydia Maria Child, Flowers for Children, Volume 2, including "Over the River and Through the Woods", which was later set to music
• Bayard Taylor, Ximena; or, The Battle of the Sierra Morena and Other Poems^[4]

Works published in other languages

• Aleardo Aleardi, l' Arnalda di Roca ("Rock of Arnalda"), Italy
• Heinrich Heine, German poet and author living in France:
  • Neue Gedichte ("New Poems")^[7]
  • Deutschland Ein Wintermarchen, long narrative poem on political and topics^[7]
• Frederik Paludan-Müller, Denmark:
  • Dryadens bryllup ("The Dryad's Wedding")
  • Tithon ("Tithonus")
  • Abels Død ("The Death of Abel")
• Henrik Wergeland, Norway:
  • Den Engelske Lods ("The English Pilot")
  • Jødinden ("The Jewess")

Births

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

• February 8 – Richard Watson Gilder (died 1909), American poet and editor
• March 14 – Arthur O'Shaughnessy (died 1881), English poet and herpetologist
• March 30 – Paul Verlaine (died 1896), French Symbolistt poet
• March 31 – Andrew Lang (died 1912), Scottish writer
• June 28 – John Boyle O'Reilly (died 1890), Irish-born American poet, journalist and fiction writer
• July 21 – Matilda Maranda Crawford (died 1920), American-Canadian poet, writer, correspondent
• July 28 – Gerard Manley Hopkins (died 1889), English poet and Jesuit priest
• October 12 – George Washington Cable (died 1925), American novelist
• October 13 – Ernest Myers (died 1921), English poet and classicist
• October 23
  • Robert Bridges (died 1939), English Poet Laureate
  • Laura Rosamond White (died 1922), American poet, author, and editor
• November 12 – Ismail Merathi (died 1917), Indian poet from Mughal and British era^[8]
• November 21 – Ada Cambridge (died 1926), English writer and poet living in Australia after 1870
• Date not known:
  • Caroline Lindsay (died 1921), English
  • Venmani Mahan Namboodiri (died 1893), Indian, Malayalam-language poet associated with the Venmani School of poetry^[9]
  • Arabella Eugenia Smith (died 1916), American

Deaths

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

• March 6 – Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, (born 1803), American poet and teacher^[10]
• June 15 – Thomas Campbell (born 1777), Scottish poet especially of sentimental poetry dealing with human affairs
• November 21 – Ivan Krylov (1769), Russian fabulist
• Date not known – Margaret Miller Davidson, senior (born 1787), American novelist, mother of poets Lucretia Maria Davidson, Margaret Miller Davidson and Levi P. Davidson