Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
June 2 – The Irvine Burns Club is formed at the Milne's Inn under the presidency of Dr. John MacKenzie, who had known the Scottish poet Robert Burns.
Eliza Acton, Poems, Ipswich: R. Deck
Thomas Aird, Murtzoufle: a tragedy
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, A Legacy for Young Ladies, poetry and prose, edited by Lucy Aikin, posthumous
George Borrow, Romantic Ballads
Elizabeth Barrett (later Browning), published anonymously, An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems
James Hogg, Queen Hynde
Thomas Hood, Whims and Oddities, poetry and prose (see also, Whims and Oddities 1827)
Henry Hart Milman, Anne Boleyn
Amelia Opie, The Black Man's Lament; or, How to Make Sugar
Robert Millhouse, The Song of the Patriot: sonnets and songs.
Ann Radcliffe, Gaston de Blondeville; Keeping Festival in Ardenne; St. Alban's Abbey, poetry and prose, with a memoir by Thomas Noon Talfourd; posthumously published
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Miscellaneous and Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, unauthorized; parts reissued the same year as Miscellaneous Poems
William Cullen Bryant, "I Cannot Forget with What Fervid Devotion", poem, first published this year, revised in 1832, possibly written as early as 1815
Samuel Woodworth, Melodies, Duets, Songs, and Ballads, including "The Bucket" (first published in 1817 and first published in a collection in 1818); the poem was set to music and became popular as "The Old Oaken Bucket"); another poem in the collection is "The Hunters of Kentucky", a ballad praising those who helped General Andrew Jackson win the Battle of New Orleans, United States
Ivan Gundulić, Osman, an epic, first published (oldest existing copy is from 1651), describes the 1621 Polish victory over the Turks at Chocim (Khotin, Ukraine), posthumous, Croatia
Wilhelm Hauff, editor, contributor, Kriegs- und Volks-Lieder ("War and Folk Songs"), anthology of poetry, including two of his own folk songs, "Reiters Morgengesang" ("Morning Song of the Rider") and "Soldatenliebe" ("Soldier's Love"), Germany
Heinrich Heine, Germany
Die Heimkehr ("The Homecoming")
Die Nordsee ("The North Sea", first cycle)
Friedrich Hölderlin, Gedichte, the author's first collected edition, Germany
Victor Hugo, Odes et Ballades, France
Adam Mickiewicz, Crimean Sonnets, inspired by a trip to Odessa during his exile in Russia, Poland
Charles Tompson, Wild Notes from the Lyre of a Native Minstrel, the first volume of poetry written by a native-born Australian
Alfred de Vigny, Poèmes antiques et modernes (expanded edition, 1829), France
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
April 12 – Dinah Craik (born "Dinah Maria Mulock", also often credited as "Miss Mulock"), English (died 1887)
March 12 – Robert Lowry, American hymnodist (died 1899)
July 4 – Stephen Foster, American songwriter (died 1864)
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
April 3 – Reginald Heber (born 1783), Church of England bishop, remembered chiefly as a hymn-writer
June 23 – John Taylor (born 1750), English businessman, poet and hymn-writer
June 27 – Mary Leadbeater (born 1758), Irish poet and writer
July 25 (July 13 O.S.) – Kondraty Ryleyev (born 1795), Russian poet and revolutionary, hanged
October 3 – Jens Baggesen (born 1764), Danish
William Glen (born 1789), Scottish
