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 Collected
Edward Henry Bickersteth, Nineveh
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Casa Guidi Windows
Caroline Clive, under the pen name "V", The Valley of the Rea
Hartley 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 Love
Theodore Sedgwick Fay, Ulric; or, The Voices
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Legend (republished under the title Christius 1872)
William Wilberforce Lord, Christ in Hades
Henry Theodore Tuckerman, Poems
Frances Fuller Victor, with Metta Victoria Victor, Poems of Sentiment and Imagination
William Ross Wallace, Meditations in America, and Other Poems
Hilario Ascasubi, Santos Vega o los mellizos de la Flor, Spanish-language, Argentina
Heinrich Heine, Romanzero, Germany
Micah Joseph Lebensohn, Shire Bat Ẓiyyon, Hebrew-language, Lithuania
Dath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 1 – Arthur Clement Hilton (died 1877), English
May 8 – James Lister Cuthbertson (died 1910), Australian
December 18 – John Farrell (died 1904), Australian
December 20 – Thérèse Schwartze (died 1918), Dutch portrait painter and poet
Date not known – Albery Allson Whitman (died 1901), African American
Birth 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 poet
February 23 – Joanna Baillie (born 1762), Scottish poet and dramatist
July 6 – David Macbeth Moir (born 1798), Scottish physician and writer
December 19 – Henry Luttrell (born 1768), English politician, wit and writer of society verse
