Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Isabella Banks, Ivy Leaves, including "Neglected Wife"
William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
Frances Browne, The Star of Atteghei; The Vision of Schwartz, and Other Poems
Elizabeth Barrett (later Elizabeth Barrett Browning), Poems, including "A Drama of Exile" and ballads
Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, The Two Destinies
Frederick William Faber, Sir Lancelot
Leigh Hunt, What is Poetry?, critical essay
Coventry Patmore, Poems
James Freeman Clarke, Hymn Book for the Church of the Disciples (expanded edition, 1852)
Christopher Pearse Cranch, Poems
Samuel Henry Dickson, Poems, including his popular "I Sigh for the Land of the Cypress and Pine"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet an essay of literary criticism in Essays, Second Series
Rufus Wilmot Griswold, The Poets and Poetry of England in the Nineteenth Century, anthology
Charles Fenno Hoffman, The Echo
William H. C. Hosmer, Yonnonidio, or Wariors of the Genessee
Sarah Anna Lewis, Records of the Heart
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, editor, Poets and Poetry of Europe, anthology
James Russell Lowell, Poems
Epes Sargent, The Light of the Lighthouse and Other Poems
Lydia Maria Child, Flowers for Children, Volume 2, including "Over the River and Through the Woods", which was later set to music
Bayard Taylor, Ximena; or, The Battle of the Sierra Morena and Other Poems
Aleardo Aleardi, l' Arnalda di Roca ("Rock of Arnalda"), Italy
Heinrich Heine, German poet and author living in France:
Neue Gedichte ("New Poems")
Deutschland Ein Wintermarchen, long narrative poem on political and topics
Frederik Paludan-Müller, Denmark:
Dryadens bryllup ("The Dryad's Wedding")
Tithon ("Tithonus")
Abels Død ("The Death of Abel")
Henrik Wergeland, Norway:
Den Engelske Lods ("The English Pilot")
Jødinden ("The Jewess")
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 8 – Richard Watson Gilder (died 1909), American poet and editor
March 14 – Arthur O'Shaughnessy (died 1881), English poet and herpetologist
March 30 – Paul Verlaine (died 1896), French Symbolistt poet
March 31 – Andrew Lang (died 1912), Scottish writer
June 28 – John Boyle O'Reilly (died 1890), Irish-born American poet, journalist and fiction writer
July 28 – Gerard Manley Hopkins (died 1889), English poet and Jesuit priest
October 12 – George Washington Cable (died 1925), American novelist
October 13 – Ernest Myers (died 1921), English poet and classicist
October 23 – Robert Bridges (died 1939), English Poet Laureate
November 21 – Ada Cambridge (died 1926), English writer and poet living in Australia after 1870
Date not known:
Caroline Lindsay (died 1921), English
Ismail Merathi (died 1917), Indian
Venmani Mahan Namboodiri (died 1893), Indian, Malayalam-language poet associated with the Venmani School of poetry
Arabella Eugenia Smith (died 1916), American
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 6 – Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, (born 1803), American poet and teacher
June 15 – Thomas Campbell (born 1777), Scottish poet especially of sentimental poetry dealing with human affairs
November 21 – Ivan Krylov (1769), Russian fabulist
Date not known – Margaret Miller Davidson, senior (born 1787), American novelist, mother of poets Lucretia Maria Davidson, Margaret Miller Davidson and Levi P. Davidson
