Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founded by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, and John Everett Millais in England
End of the Biedermeier era of German literature, which began in 1815. The name is derived from a parody in the Munich magazine Fliegende Blätter of 1848 by Ludwig Eichrodt and Dr. Adolph Kussmaul of two poems by Joseph Victor von Scheffel, "Biedermanns Abendgemütlichkeit" ("Biedermann's Evening Comfort") and "Bummelmaiers Klage" ("Bummelmaier's Complaint")
Cecil Frances Alexander, The Baron's Little Daughter, and Other Tales in Prose and Verse
William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, Scotland
John Stanyan Bigg, The Sea-King
Arthur Hugh Clough, The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich: A Long-Vacation Pastoral
Robert Davidson, Leaves from a Peasant's Cottage Drawer, Scotland
Aubrey Thomas de Vere, English Misrule and Irish Deeds
Dora Greenwell, Poems
John Keats, Ode on Indolence first published, posthumously (the author died in 1821)
Charles Kingsley, The Saint's Tragedy
Walter Savage Landor, The Italics of Walter Savage Landor
John Quincy Adams, Poems of Religion and Society
Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Female Poets of America, anthology
Henry Beck Hirst, Endymion
James Russell Lowell:
The Biglow Papers (1848)
A Fable for Critics: A Glance at a Few of Our Literary Progenies, book-length poem published as a pamphlet
Poems: Second Series
The Vision of Sir Launfal
Fitz-Greene Halleck, The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck, Now First Collected, New York: D. Appleton & Company
James Mathewes Legare, Orta-Undis, and Other Poems, the only book of poetry published in the author's lifetime; Boston: Ticknor and Company, printed at the author's expense
Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka: A Prose Poem, United States
Adrien Emmanuel Rouquette, Wild Flowers: Sacred Poetry
William Gilmore Simms:
The Eye and the Wing, New York
Lays of the Palmetto: a Tribute to the South Carolina Regiment in the War with Mexico, Charleston
The Cassique of Accabee
Charleston and Her Satirists: A Scribblement
William Ross Wallace, Alban the Pirate
José Bonifácio, Rosas e Goivos ("Roses and Cresses"), Brazil
James Huston, editor, Le répertoire national, anthology of French Canadian poetry in four volumes, published from this year to 1850, including poetry by Joseph Mermet ("Les Boucheries: fêtes rurales du Canada"), Isidore Bédard ("Sol canadien, terre chérie"), François-Xavier Garneau, Napoléon Aubin, François-Magloire Derome and Pierre Chauveau
Andreas Munch, Digte, gamle og nye, Norway
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 17 – Louisa Lawson, née Albury (died 1920), Australian poet, writer, publisher and feminist; mother of Henry Lawson
August 13 – Romesh Chunder Dutt (died 1909), Indian poet writing in English; cousin of Toru Dutt
Undated – Gobinda Rath (died 1918), Indian, Oriya-language poet and satirist
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 19 – Isaac D'Israeli (born 1766), English scholar and man of letters
February 11 – Thomas Cole (born 1801), English-born American landscape painter and occasional poet
February 23 – John Quincy Adams (born 1767), American statesman, sixth President of the United States
May 25 – Annette von Droste-Hulshoff (born 1797), German author and poet
August 14 – Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (born 1805), English religious poet (tuberculosis)
September 24 – Branwell Brontë (born 1817), English painter, writer and poet (tuberculosis)
December 19 – Emily Brontë (born 1818), English novelist and poet (tuberculosis)
Undated – Ann Batten Cristall (born c. 1769), English
