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

Events

April – Charles Baudelaire leaves Paris for Belgium in the hope of resolving his financial difficulties.

Charles Heavysege:
- The Owl (Montreal)
- The Dark Huntsman (a dream) (Montreal)

William Allingham:
- Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland^[1]
- Editor, The Ballad Book, anthology^[1]
Robert Browning, Dramatis Personae,^[1] including "Rabbi Ben Ezra" and "Caliban upon Setebos"
Edward Hartley Dewart, Selections from Canadian Poets, the first anthology of Canadian poetry in English^[2]
Robert Lowry, "Beautiful River"
George MacDonald, Adela Cathcart, fairy tales, parables and poems^[1]
Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Poems, including a memoir by Derwent Coleridge, posthumously published^[1]
William Brighty Rands, anonymously published, Lilliput Levee, for children^[1]
Joseph Skipsey, The Collier Lad and other Lyrics
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Enoch Arden^[1]

George Henry Baker, Poems of the War^[3]
William Cullen Bryant:
- Thirty Poems
- Hymns^[3]
Laura Redden Searing, Idyls of Battle and Poems of the Rebellion
Edmund Clarence Stedman, Alice of Monmouth: An Idyll of the Great War and Other Poems^[3]
John Greenleaf Whittier, In War Time, United States^[3]

Aleardo Aleardi, I fuochi sull'Appennibo, Italy
Alfred de Vigny, Les Destinées, philosophical poems on discipline and social order; posthumously published (died 1863), France

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

April 8 – Orelia Key Bell (died 1959), American
May 4 – Richard Hovey (died 1900), American
February 17 – Andrew "Banjo" Paterson (died 1941), Australian writer and poet
April 30 (April 18 O.S.) – Juhan Liiv (died 1913), Estonian
September 18 – Itō Sachio 伊藤佐千夫, pen name of Itō Kojirō (died 1913), Japanese, Meiji period tanka poet and novelist (surname: Itō)
September 29 – Miguel de Unamuno (died 1936), Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher
November 26 – Herman Gorter (died 1927), Dutch poet and socialist
November 30 – Sydney Jephcott (died 1951), Australian

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

January 13 – Stephen Foster (born 1826), American songwriter
January 29 – Lucy Aikin (born 1781), English writer
February 2 – Adelaide Anne Procter (born 1825), English poet, a daughter of poet Bryan Procter
April 18 – Juris Alunāns (born 1832), Latvian philologist and poet
May 20 – John Clare (born 1793), English "peasant poet"
July 4 – Nathaniel Hawthorne (born 1804), American writer
July 6 – George Pope Morris (born 1802), American editor, poet and songwriter
September 17 – Walter Savage Landor (born 1775), English writer and poet
November 3 – Gonçalves Dias (born 1823), Brazilian (shipwreck)

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
^ Bentley, D. M. R., "Pre-Confederation Poetry" article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)