— From Cantos 27 and 56, In Memoriam A.H.H., by Alfred Tennyson, published this year
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
May (late) – Alfred Tennyson's poem In Memoriam A.H.H., written to commemorate the death of his friend and fellow poet Arthur Hallam in 1833, is published by Edward Moxon in London; on June 1 the writer's anonymity is broken by The Publishers' Circular
June 13 – Alfred Tennyson marries his childhood friend Emily Sellwood at Shiplake
July – William Wordsworth's The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem, on which he has worked since 1798, is first published about 3 months after his death by Edward Moxon in London in 14 books, with the title supplied by the poet's widow, Mary; originally intended to form the introduction to The Recluse, for which The Excursion (1814) formed the second part; though The Prelude failed to arouse great interest at this time, it is later generally recognised as his masterpiece (second edition 1851; see also "Events" for 1798, 1799, 1806, 1820, The Recluse 1888)
November – A new edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poems is published by Chapman & Hall in London, including (in vol. 2) her Sonnets from the Portuguese (written during her courtship by Robert Browning c.1845–46) of which the most famous will be no. 43 ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.") (Sonnets first printed separately in Boston 1866; see also Poems 1844, 1853, 1856)
November 19 – Alfred Tennyson succeeds Wordsworth as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom after Samuel Rogers turns down the post, saying he is too old for it and Tennyson is assured that birthday odes will not be required of him
Golden Age of Russian Poetry, begun in about 1800 ends at about this time
Young Germany (Junges Deutschland) a loose group of German writers from about 1830, stops flourishing at about this time
William Allingham, Poems
Philip James Bailey, The Angel World, and Other Poems
Thomas Lovell Beddoes, published anonymously, Death's Jest-Book; or, The Fool's Tragedy (posthumous)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems including Sonnets from the Portuguese
Robert Browning, Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day
Sydney Dobell, writing under the pen name "Sydney Yendys", The Roman
Elin Evans, writing under the pen name "Elen Egryn", Telyn Egryn ("Egryn's Harp", Welsh)
Dora Greenwell, Stories That Might Be True, with Other Poems
Leigh Hunt, The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt in three volumes
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel in The Gem
John Ruskin, Poems
Robert Southey, Southey's Common-place Book: Third/Fourth Series, poems and prose, edited by John Wood Warner (see also first and second series 1849)
Alfred Tennyson:
In Memoriam A.H.H.
"Ring Out, Wild Bells"
William Wordsworth, posthumously, The Prelude
Washington Allston, Lectures on Art and Poems, (scholarship)
George Copway, The Ojibway Conquest (the author also published this year the nonfiction work, Traditional History of the Ojibway Nation)
Richard Henry Dana, Sr., Poems and Prose Writings, in two volumes, Volume 1 contains poems, both new and previously published in 1827, New York: Baker and Scribner
Sylvester Judd, Philo, An Evangeliad
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Seaside and the Fireside
Edgar Allan Poe, The Works of the Late Edgar Alan Poe: With a Memoir by Rufus Wilmot Griswold and Notices of His Life and Genius by N. P. Willis and J. R. Lowell, published in four volumes from this year to 1854 including "The Poetic Principle", an essay; criticism (published posthumously; died 1849)
John Godfrey Saxe, Humorous and Satirical Poems
William Gilmore Simms, The City of the Silent
John Greenleaf Whittier:
Poems, Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co.
Songs of Labor and Other Poems
James Huston, editor, Le répertoire national, anthology of French Canadian poetry in four volumes, published from 1848 to this year; 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
Brian Mac Giolla Meidhre (d. 1805), Cúirt An Mheán Oíche, Irish
Andreas Munch, Nye Digte, Norwegian
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 15 – Mihai Eminescu (died 1889), Romanian
February 20 – Nérée Beauchemin (died 1931), Canadian poet and physician
June 27 – Ivan Vazov (died 1921), Bulgarian
July 18 – Rose Hartwick Thorpe (died 1939), American
September 2 – Eugene Field (died 1895), American
November 5 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox (died 1919), American
November 13 – Robert Louis Stevenson (died 1894), Scots novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer
December 13 – William Chapman (died 1917), Canadian poet, journalist and bureaucrat
December 25 – Isabella Valancy Crawford (died 1887), Irish-born Canadian poet
Also:
Saul Adadi (died 1918), Libyan Sephardi Jewish hakham, rosh yeshiva and writer of piyyutim
Hortensia Antommarchi (died 1915), Colombian poet
Vitthal Bhagwani Lembhe (died 1920), Indian, Marathi-language poet
Savitagauri Pandya (died 1925), Indian, Gujarati-language woman poet
Vishvanatha Dev Varma, (died 1920), Indian, Sanskrit-language poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 20 – Adam Oehlenschlager (born 1779), Danish
January 20 – Philip Pendleton Cooke (born 1816), American lawyer and poet
April 7 – William Lisle Bowles (born 1762), English
April 23 – William Wordsworth (born 1770), English
May 23 – Margaret Fuller (born 1810), American
May 31 – Giuseppe Giusti (born 1809), Italian (Tuscan)
August 22 – Nikolaus Lenau (born 1802), Austrian
Also:
Manoah Bodman (born 1765), American
