Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
June – While waiting to cross the English Channel on honeymoon, English poet Matthew Arnold probably begins to compose the poem "Dover Beach" (published 1867).
Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Poems Posthumous and CollectedEdward Henry Bickersteth, NinevehElizabeth Barrett Browning, Casa Guidi WindowsCaroline Clive, under the pen name "V", The Valley of the ReaHartley Coleridge, Poems by Hartley Coleridge, edited by Derwent Coleridge (posthumous)George Meredith, Poems, including the first version of "Love in the Valley"Thomas Holley Chivers, Eonchs of Ruby: A Gift of LoveTheodore Sedgwick Fay, Ulric; or, The VoicesHenry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Legend (republished under the title Christius 1872)William Wilberforce Lord, Christ in HadesHenry Theodore Tuckerman, PoemsFrances Fuller Victor, with Metta Victoria Victor, Poems of Sentiment and ImaginationWilliam Ross Wallace, Meditations in America, and Other PoemsHilario Ascasubi, Santos Vega o los mellizos de la Flor, Spanish-language, ArgentinaHeinrich Heine, Romanzero, GermanyMicah Joseph Lebensohn, Shire Bat Ẓiyyon, Hebrew-language, LithuaniaDath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 1 – Arthur Clement Hilton (died 1877), EnglishMay 8 – James Lister Cuthbertson (died 1910), AustralianDecember 18 – John Farrell (died 1904), AustralianDecember 20 – Thérèse Schwartze (died 1918), Dutch portrait painter and poetDate not known – Albery Allson Whitman (died 1901), African AmericanBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 1 – Mary Shelley (born 1797), English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer and poetFebruary 23 – Joanna Baillie (born 1762), Scottish poet and dramatistJuly 6 – David Macbeth Moir (born 1798), Scottish physician and writerDecember 19 – Henry Luttrell (born 1768), English politician, wit and writer of society verse
