Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- The first blue plaque is erected in London by the Royal Society of Arts on the birthplace (1788) of English poet Lord Byron, subsequently demolished.
Works published in English
Canada
- Charles Heavysege, "Jezebel," New Dominion Monthly (Montreal)
United Kingdom
- Matthew Arnold, New Poems, including "Dover Beach"
- Philip James Bailey, Universal Hymn (see also Festus 1839)
- Mathilde Blind, publishing under the pen name "Claude Lake", Poems
- Jean Ingelow, A Story of Doom, and Other Poems
- William Morris, The Life and Death of Jason
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, Song of Italy
- Augusta Webster, A Woman Sold, and Other Poems
United States
- George Arnold, Poems, Grave and Gay, published posthumously
- John Burroughs, Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person, biography and criticism
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, May-Day and Other Pieces
- Bret Harte, The Lost Galleon
- Josiah Gilbert Holland, Kathrina: Her Life and Mine, in a Poem
- Emma Lazarus, Poems and Translations
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Flower-de-Luce
- James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers, Second Series
- William Gilmore Simms, editor, War Poetry of the South
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Religious Poems
- Rose Hartwick Thorpe, Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight
- Henry Timrod, "Ode: Sung on the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C., 1867"
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, fourth edition (first edition 1855)
- John Greenleaf Whittier, The Tent on the Beach
Other in English
- Adam Lindsay Gordon, Australia:
- Ashtaroth, a Dramatic Lyric
- Sea Spray and Smoke Drift
Works published in other languages
France
- François Coppée, Les Intimites and Poemes modernes, published from this year to 1869
- Alfred de Vigny, Journal d’un poète ("Journal of a Poet"), posthumously published
Other
- Lydia Koidula, Emajõe Ööbik ("The Nightingale of the Mother River"), Estonia
- Jan Neruda, Knihy veršů ("Books of Verses"), Czech
- Piet Paaltjens (François Haverschmidt), Snikken en grimlachjes: poëzie uit den studententijd ("Sobs and Bitter Grins: poetry of student days"), Netherlands
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 9 â€" Natsume SÅseki å¤ç›® 漱石 (commonly referred to as "SÅseki"), pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke å¤ç›®é‡'之助 (died 1916), Japanese, Meiji Era novelist, haiku poet, composer of Chinese-style poetry, writer of fairy tales and a scholar of English literature; from 1984â€"2004, his portrait was on the 1000 yen note (surname: Natsume)
- March 15 â€" Lionel Pigot Johnson (died 1902), British
- April 10 â€" George William Russell "Æ" (died 1935), Irish
- June 5 - Paul-Jean Toulet (died 1920), French
- June 17 â€" Henry Lawson (died 1922), Australian
- August 2 â€" Ernest Christopher Dowson (died 1900), English poet, novelist and writer of short stories associated with the Decadent movement
- August 6 â€" David McKee Wright, New Zealand
- September 17 â€" Masaoka Shiki æ£å²¡ åè¦, pen-name of Masaoka Tsunenori æ£å²¡ 常è¦, who changed his name to Noboru å‡ (died 1902), Japanese author, poet, literary critic, journalist and, early in his life, a baseball player (surname: Masaoka)
- November 8 â€" Sadakichi Hartmann (died 1944), American
- November 26 â€" Roderic Quinn (died 1949), Australian
- Also:
- Eva Dobell (died 1963) English poet, nurse, and editor best known for her verses related to World War I soldiers
- Kant (poet) (died 1923), Indian, Gujarati-language writer and poet who wrote khandakavyas (narrative poems) and ghazals
- Louis Lavater (died 1953), Australian
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- August 31 â€" Charles Baudelaire (born 1821), French poet, critic, and translator
- Fitz-Greene Halleck
- John Hollin Ridge
- Alexander Smith
- Henry Timrod
- Nathaniel Parker Willis
- Forceythe Willson
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
- Poetry