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

Events

• Henry Francis Lyte composes Abide with Me

Works published in English

United Kingdom

• Edwin Atherstone, The Fall of Nineveh, enlarged (from the 1828 edition) to 30 booksCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6

• Richard Harris Barham, writing under the pen name "Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.", The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels, verse fiction; illustrated by George Cruickshank and John Leech (see also Ingoldsby Legends 1840, 1842)

• Caroline Clive, writing under the pen name "V", The Queen's Ball

• Walter Savage Landor, The Hellenics of Walter Savage Landor

• Christina Rossetti, Verses by Christina G. Rossetti

• Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Mary Shelley; posthumous

• Robert Southey and Caroline Southey, Robin Hood

• Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Princess, including "Tears, Idle Tears"

United States

• William Ellery Channing, Poems, Second SeriesLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press

• Philip Pendleton Cooke, Froissart Ballads, and Other Poems, Philadelphia: Cary and HartRubin, Louis D., Jr., The Literary South, John Wiley & Sons, 1979, ISBN 0471046590

• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems

• Fitz-Greene Halleck, The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck

• Charles Fenno Hoffman, Love's Calendar; Lays of the Hudson and Other Poems

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

• Epes Sargent, Songs of the Sea With Other Poems

• William Wetmore Story, Poems

Works published in other languages

• Heinrich Heine, Atta Troll, long narrative poem on political and cultural topics

Births

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

• April 7 – Jens Peter Jacobsen (died 1885), DanishPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications

• September 22 –- Alice Meynell, née Thompson (died 1922), English poet, writer, editor, critic and suffragist

• December 1 – Julia A. Moore, American poet, famed for her notoriously bad poetry

• Also:

• * Brij Raj (died 1919), Indian, Dogri-Pahadi Brajbhasha poetDas, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, , 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008

• * Nabinchandra Sen নবীনচন্দ্র সেন (died 1909), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and writer

Deaths

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

• September 10 – Richard Henry Wilde (born 1789), Irish-born American lawyer, politician and poet

• November 20 – Henry Francis Lyte (born 1793), Anglican divine and hymn-writer born in Scotland

• Date not known:

• * Liang Desheng (born 1771), Chinese poet and writer during the Qing Dynasty

• * William Shepherd

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

• Biedermeier era of German literature

• Golden Age of Russian Poetry (1800–1850)

• Young Germany (Junges Deutschland) a loose group of German writers from about 1830 to 1850

• List of poets

• Poetry

• List of poetry awards