Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published in English
United Kingdom
Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems
Alfred Tennyson, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington
United States
Thomas Holley Chivers, The Death of the Devil, A Serio-Ludicro, Tragico-Comico, Nigero-Whiteman Extravaganza Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes Richard Realf, Guesses at the Beautiful Richard Henry Stoddard, Poems
Works published in other languages
France
Théophile Gautier's Emaux et camées
Leconte de Lisle, Poèmes antiques
Gérard de Nerval, et Les illuminés
Other
Andreas Munch, Sorg og Trøst, Norwegian
Theodor Storm, Gedichte ("Poems"), Germany
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 24 – George Moore (died 1933) Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist March 15 – Lady Gregory (died 1932), Irish dramatist, folklorist and poet March 22 – Francis William Bourdillon (died 1921), English poet and translator April 23 – Edwin Markham (died 1940), American poet June 17 – M. A. Bayfield (died 1922), English classical scholar and writer on poetry October 31 – Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (died 1930), American novelist and poet November 10 – Henry van Dyke (died 1933), American author, poet, educator and clergyman Also: Ganesh Janardan Agasha (died 1919), Indian, Marathi-language poet and literary critic Emma Maria Caillard Moyinkutty Vaidyar (died 1891), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 17 – Micah Joseph Lebensohn (born 1828), Lithuanian Jewish, Hebrew language poet (tuberculosis) February 25 – Thomas Moore (born 1779), Irish-born poet and songwriter April 10 – John Howard Payne (born 1791), American actor, playwright, author and consul in Tunis (1842–1852); most remembered as creator of "Home! Sweet Home!" April 25 – Álvares de Azevedo (born 1831), Brazilian Ultra-Romantic poet and writer (tuberculosis) May 3 – Sara Coleridge (born 1802), English writer November 15 – John Hamilton Reynolds (born 1794), English poet, satirist, critic and playwright