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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

c. May 22 – The Brontë sisters' first published work, the collection Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, is issued in London.^[1] It sells just two copies in the first year.^[2]
September 12 – Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning marry privately in St Marylebone Parish Church, London, departing for the continent a week later.

Cover of the first edition of Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, by the Brontë sisters

William Barnes, Poems, Partly of Rural Life^[1]
Robert Bell, ed., Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England
Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë, Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell^[1]
Robert Browning, Luria: a Tragedy; a Soul's Tragedy, volume 8 of Bells and Pomegranates (see also Bells and Pomegranates 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, and 1845)^[1]
John Burgon, Petra: a poem, to which a few short poems are now added
Henry Cary, Lives of English Poets, from Johnson to Kirke White, verse first published in the London Magazine from 1821 to 1824^[1]
Thomas Hood, Poems^[1]
John Keble, Lyra Innocentium: Thoughts in verse on Christian children^[1]
Edward Lear, writing under the pen name "Derry Down Derry", A Book of Nonsense, also illustrated by Lear; expanded in 1855,^[3] 1861, 1863^[1] etc. (See also, Nonsense Songs 1870, dated 1871,^[1] More Nonsense 1872,^[3] Laughable Lyrics 1877^[1]
Carolina, Lady Nairne (died 1845), Lays from Strathern, Scottish

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

April 4 – Comte de Lautréamont, pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (died 1870), French
April 24 – Marcus Clarke (died 1881), Australian novelist and poet
May 25 – Naim Frashëri (died 1900), Albanian
August 17 – Alexander MacGregor Rose (died 1898), Scottish-born Canadian
August 28 – G. H. Gibson, "Ironbark" (died 1921), Australian
September 26 – Mary Hannay Foott (died 1918), Australian
October 9 – Holger Drachmann (died 1908), Danish^[7]
October 27 – Katherine Harris Bradley, half of "Michael Field" (died 1914), English

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 7 – John Hookham Frere (born 1769), English
February 14 (probable date) – Standish O'Grady (born before 1793), Irish-Canadian poet and priest^[8]
April 11 – Barron Field (born 1786), Anglo-Australian
May 14 – Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (born 1759), American^[9]
November 23 – George Darley (born 1795), Irish-born

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
^ Alexander, Christine; Smith, Margaret (2006). The Oxford Companion to the Brontës. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-866218-1.
^ ^a ^b Happy Birthday Edward Lear. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum. 2012. pp. 24–28. ISBN 978-1-85444-273-4.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Simms, William Gilmore" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 123–124.
^ Wagenknecht, Edward. John Greenleaf Whittier: A Portrait in Paradox. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967
^ Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Trehearne, Brian. "Preliminaries for a Life of Standish O'Grady". Archived from the original on 2016-10-26. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
^ "Bibliography". American Poetry Full-Text Database. University of Chicago Library. Retrieved 2009-03-04.