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Works published

United Kingdom

• Edward Bulwer-Lytton, writing under the pen name "Owen Meredith", The Wanderer
• Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Smith, Elder & Co., biography
• Frederick Locker Lampson, London Lyrics (12 re-editions to 1893)
• Denis MacCarthy, Underglimpses, and Other Poems
• Theodore Martin, translated from Adam Oehlenschlager, Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Lamp

United States

• William Allen Butler, Nothing to Wear, published posthumously (first published anonymously in Harper's Weekly); the poem sold well, despite the financial panic; when a woman declared she was the author, the resulting controversy helped sales (see Mortimer Thomson's poem describing the controversy, below)
• Paul Hamilton Hayne, Sonnets and Other Poems
• Francis Scott Key, Poems
• James Lawson, Poems
• Alexander Beaufort Meek, Songs and Poems of the South
• Mortimer Thomson, writing under the pen name "Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B." (Without the pen name's abbreviations: "Queer Kritter Philander Doesticks, Perfect Brick"), Nothing to Say: A Slight Slap at Mobocratic Snobbery, Which Has "Nothing to Do" with "Nothing to Wear" on the controversy over the authorship of William Allen Butler's poem Nothing to Wear; Thomson was offered a dollar a line for a poem on the subject, submitted an 800-line poem and was paid in full; illustrated by John McLenan; the book sold well
• Richard Henry Stoddard, Songs of Summer
• John Greenleaf Whittier:
  • The Sycamores
  • The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Other

The first edition of Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire, with author's notes.

• Théodore de Banville, Odes funambulesques, France
• Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil), France
• Rosalia de Castro, La Flor, Galician Spanish poet, writing in Spanish
• James Lionel Michael, Songs without Music, lyrics, Australia

Births

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

• April 11, – John Davidson (died 1909), Scottish poet and playwright
• June 13 – Hubert Newman Wigmore Church (died 1932), Australian
• September 22 – James Hebblethwaite (died 1921), Australian

• Also:
  • Jane Barlow (died 1917), Irish poet and novelist
  • Benjamin Franklin King, American poet
  • Moyinkutty Vaidyar (died 1891), Indian, Malayalam-language poet

Deaths

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

• February 9 – Dionysios Solomos Διονύσιος Σολωμός (born 1798), Greek poet best known for the Hymn to Liberty, the first two stanzas of which became the Greek national anthem
• March 11 – Manuel José Quintana (born 1772), Spanish
• April 11 – John Davidson (died 1909), Scottish poet and playwright
• May 2 – Alfred de Musset (born 1810), French poet and novelist
• November 26 – Joseph von Eichendorff (born 1788), German poet and novelist
• June 25 – Isabella Kelly (born 1759), novelist and poet
• December 13 – Richard Furness (born 1791), British

• Also:
  • Kaykobad কায়কোবাদ) (also spelt "Kaikobad" and also known as Mohakobi Kaykobad ("Kaykobad the great poet") was the pen name of Kazem Ali Quereshi (died 1951), Bengali poet

See also

• 19th century in poetry
• 19th century in literature
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• Victorian literature
• French literature of the 19th century
• Poetry