Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
May – Antoni de Bofarull and Víctor Balaguer re-establish the Barcelona Floral Games (jocs florals), contests for Catalan Renaixença poetry.
William Barnes:
Hwomely Rhymes (see also 1844, 1862, 1868)
The Song of Solomon in the Dorset Dialect
Edmund Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (revised in 1868, 1872, 1879 [with the Salaman and Absal of Jami — see 1856])
Louisa Shore and Arabella Shore, written anonymously, Gemma of the Isles
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King including "Enid," "Vivien," "Elaine," and "Guinevere" (see also The Holy Grail 1869, Idylls of the King 1870, Gareth and Lynette 1872, "Balin and Balan" in Tiresias 1885, Idylls of the King 1889)
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems, United States
William Kirby, The U.E.: A Tale of Upper Canada, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada
Victor Hugo, La Légende des siècles, first series (see other series 1877, 1883), France
Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Premières Poésies, France
Frédéric Mistral, Mireio, France
Casimiro de Abreu, As Primaveras, Brazil
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 24 – Susie Frances Riley, Canadian
February 25 – James Kenneth Stephen (died 1892), English poet and tutor to Prince Albert Victor, son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
March 26 – A. E. Housman (died 1936), English classical scholar and poet
July 17 – Ernest Rhys (died 1946), English writer, essayist, poet, novelist, playwright and short-story writer best known as founding editor of Everyman's Library series of affordable classics
August 12 – Katharine Lee Bates (died 1929), American poet best known as the author of the words to the anthem "America the Beautiful"; her poem Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride (1889) popularized "Mrs. Santa Claus"
November 4 – Perceval Gibbon (died 1926), South African poet, short-story writer, author and journalist
December 16 – Francis Thompson (died 1907) English poet
Also:
William Herbert Carruth, American
Narasinghrao, (died 1937), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and writer
Kostis Palamas (died 1943), Greek
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 23 – Bettina von Arnim (born 1785), German writer, poet, composer and novelist
January 23 – Iswarchandra Gupta (born 1811), Bengali poet and writer
February 13 – Eliza Acton (born 1799), English poet and cook who produced one of the country's first cookbooks aimed at the domestic reader rather than the professional
March 30 – James Matthews Legaré (born 1823), American poet and failed inventor
April 3 – Reginald Heber (born 1783, English Anglican bishop, poet and hymn writer
April 14 – Sydney, Lady Morgan, née Owenson (born about 1781), Irish novelist and poet
July 23 – Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (born 1786), French
August 28 – Leigh Hunt (born 1784), English critic, essayist, poet and writer
November 28 – Washington Irving (born 1783) American author, essayist, biographer, historian and poet
December 28 – Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (born 1800) English historian, Whig politician and poet
