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

Events

• 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.

Works published

United Kingdom

• 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]

United States

• William Ellery Channing, The Woodman^[3]
• James T. Fields, Poems, Boston: William D. Ticknor and Company^[4]
• Caroline Howard Gilman, Verses of a Life-time^[3]
• Henry Beck Hirst, The Penance of Roland^[3]
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Poems^[3]
• Richard Henry Stoddard, Foot-Prints^[3]
• Alfred Billings Street, Frontenac^[3]

Other

• Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Songes, Sweden
• Petrus Augustus de Genestet, De Sint-Nicolaasavond ("Saint Nicholas's Eve"), Netherlands
• Micah Joseph Lebensohn, Harisut Troya, translation of Virgil's Aeneid after Schiller, Lithuania, Hebrew language
• Elias Lönnrot, comp., Kalevala, new version, Finland
• Fazal Shah Sayyad, Sohni Mahiwal, India, Punjabi language
• Christian Winther, Til Een ("To Someone"), Denmark^[5]

Births

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

Deaths

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