Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
June – Rev. John Henry Newman writes "The Pillar of Cloud" (Lead, Kindly Light) on a boat in the Strait of Bonifacio.
September 15 – English poet Arthur Henry Hallam, a friend of Tennyson (and fiancé of his sister Emily), dies suddenly of a brain haemorrhage in Vienna aged 22. This year in his memory Tennyson writes "Ulysses" (completed October 20; published in Poems of 1842), Tithon (an early version of "Tithonus") and "The Two Voices" (originally entitled "Thoughts of a Suicide") and begins "Morte d'Arthur" (published 1842) and "Tiresias" (published 1885). In 1850 he will publish In Memoriam A.H.H.
Elizabeth Barrett (later Elizabeth Barrett Browning), anonymously published translation from the Ancient Greek of Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
Edward Bickersteth, Christian Psalmody
Caroline Bowles (later Caroline Anne Southey), Tales of the Factories
Robert Browning, Pauline, a fragment of a confession, the author's first published poem, published anonymously, sells no copies (first reprinted in Poetical Works 1868 with minor revisions and an "apologetic preface")
Agnes Bulmer's Messiah's Kingdom was published; an epic poem running to 14,000 lines and considered the longest poem ever written by a woman.
Hartley Coleridge, Poems
Allan Cunningham, The Maid of Elvar
Ebenezer Elliott, The Splendid Village; Corn Law Rhymes, and Other Poems
Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Hymns on the Works of Nature
John Stuart Mill, Thoughts on Poetry and its Variants (criticism)
Robert Montgomery, Woman: The Angel of Life
Sir Walter Scott, The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, the final revised edition, edited by J. G. Lockhart and illustrated by J. M. W. Turner; in 12 volumes, published starting in May of this year, with Volume I, and ending in April 1834, with Volume XII
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing under the pen name "L.E.L." Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1834, including The Zenana
Maria Gowen Brooks, Zophiel, highly emotional verse, influenced by her connections with the English Lake poets; Charles Lamb asserted she could not have been the author, "as if there could have been a woman capable of anything so grand"
Richard Henry Dana, Sr., Poems and Prose Writings, a very well received book, including many of his better-known essays and poems, including "The Buccaneer" (see also the expanded edition 1850)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, translator, Coplas de Don Jorge Manrique
Penina Moise, Fancy's Sketch Book, called the first poetry book published by a Jewish American in the United States; including humorous and satirical poems on love, poverty and death as well as comments on the suffering of Jews abroad, who are encouraged to immigrate to the United States
M. J. Chapman, "Barbados" by a pro-slavery planter in Barbados
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Les Fleurs, France
Wilhelm Hey, Fünfzig Fabeln für Kinder ("Fifty Fables for Children")
Frederik Paludan-Muller, Dandserinden ("The Danseuse" or "Dancing Girl"), inspired by Lord Byron's poetry; an ironic poem in ottava rima; Denmark
France Prešeren, A Wreath of Sonnets (Slovene: Sonetni venec)
Aleksandr Pushkin, "The Bronze Horseman" (Russian, Медный всадник, literally "The Copper Horseman")
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 23 – Lewis Morris (died 1907), Anglo-Welsh poet
May 5 – Richard Watson Dixon (died 1900), English poet and clergyman
May 29 – George Gordon McCrae (died 1927), Australian
August 24 – Narmadashankar Dave, also known as "Narmad" (died 1886), Indian, Gujarati-language poet
October 8 – Edmund Clarence Stedman (died 1908), American poet, critic, essayist, banker and scientist
October 19 – Adam Lindsay Gordon, Azores-born Australian "national poet", jockey and politician
December 27 – Larin Paraske (died 1904), Finnish Izhorian oral poet and rune-singer
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 4 – John O'Keefe (born 1747), Irish poet, playwright and actor
April 14 – Joseph-Isidore Bédard (born 1806), Canadian poet, lawyer and politician
September 7 – Hannah More (born 1745), English poet, playwright, religious writer and philanthropist
September 15 – Arthur Hallam (born 1811), English poet in whose memory Alfred, Lord Tennyson later writes In Memoriam A.H.H.
October 10 – Thomas Atkinson (born 1801?), Scottish poet, bookseller and politician, dies at sea
December 30 – William Sotheby (born 1757), English poet and translator
Date not known – Bankidas Asiya (born 1771), Rajasthani poet and scholar
