— From "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson, first published this year
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
William Allingham, Day and Night Songs
W. E. Aytoun, writing under the pen name "T. Percy Jones", Firmilian; or, The Student of Badajoz, subtitle: "A Spasmodic tragedy"
Thomas De Quincey, Selections Grave and Gay, including biographical essays (originally published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine in 1834, 1835, 1839 and 1840) on some of the Lake Poets (see also Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets 1860, in which all of the Recollections essays were published)
Eliza Craven Green, "Ellan Vannin" (later set to music)
John Keats, The Poetical Works of John Keats, edited by Richard Monckton Milnes; posthumously published
Coventry Patmore, "The Angel in the House", Part I, also known as The Betrothal (see also The Espousals 1856, Faithful for Ever 1860, The Victories of Love 1863)
Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Charge of the Light Brigade" published in The Examiner on December 9
Benjamin Paul Blood, The Bride of the Iconoclast
William Cullen Bryant, Poems
Phoebe Cary, Poems and Parodies
William J. Grayson, The Hireling and the Slave
William H. C. Hosmer, Poetical Works
Julia Ward Howe, Passion Flowers
Louise Colet:
Ce qu'on rêve en aimant
L'Acropole d'Athènes
Gérard de Nerval, Les Chimères, poems appended to the author's book of short stories, Les Filles du feu
Tiouttchev, Poésies
Heinrich Heine, Gedichte. 1853 und 1854 ("Poems. 1853 and 1854"), German poet and author living in France
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 9 – Govind Vasudev Kanitkar (died 1918), Indian, Marathi-language poet and translator
April 13 – William Henry Drummond (died 1907), Canadian
September 24 – George Frederick Cameron (died 1885), Canadian
October 16 – Oscar Wilde (died 1900), Irish-born playwright and poet
October 20 – Arthur Rimbaud (died 1891), French
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 29 – Charlotte Caroline Richardson (born 1796), English
April 3 – John Wilson (born 1785), Scots
April 16 – Julia Nyberg (born 1784), Swedish poet and songwriter
April 24 – Gabriele Rossetti (born 1783), English
April 30 – James Montgomery (born 1771), Scots
December 9 – Almeida Garrett (born 1799), Portuguese
