Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
October 27 – English poet Alfred Tennyson settles at Farringford House on the Isle of Wight.
Works published in English
United Kingdom
Mrs. Cecil Frances Alexander, Narratyve Hymns for Village Schools
Matthew Arnold, Poems: a New Edition, the first collected edition of the author's poems; known as Poems: First Series (see also 1855); including "Sobrab and Rustum" and "The Scholar Gipsy" R. D. Blackmore, writing under the pen name "Melanter", Poems by Melanter Martha Browne, (a.k.a. Mattie Griffith) Poems Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems (see also Poems 1844, 1850, 1856) Caroline Clive, writing under the pen name "V", The Morlas Sydney Dobell, Balder Coventry Patmore, Tamerton Church-Tower (see also 1878) Alexander Smith, Poems, Scottish poet
United States
Thomas Holley Chivers: Atlanta; or, the True Blessed Island of Poesy, a Paul Epic Memoralia; or, Phials of Amber Full of the Tears of Love Virginalia; or, Songs of My Summer Nights Samuel Longfellow, Thalatta: A Book for the Sea-side, compiled with Thomas Wentworth Higginson Lydia Huntley Sigourney, The Faded Hope William Gilmore Simms, Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, in two volumes, Charleston, South Carolina: John Russell Sarah Helen Whitman, Hours of Life John Greenleaf Whittier, The Chapel of the Hermits
Other
Peter John Allan (died 1848), Poetical Remains of Peter John Allan, Esq., Canadian poet published in London Charles Harpur, The Bushrangers: a Play in Five Acts, and other Poems, Australia
Works published in other languages
Hilario Ascasubi, Aniceto el Gallo, Argentina
Álvares de Azevedo, Lira dos Vinte Anos, Brazil (posthumous) Paul Heyse, Lieder aus Sorrent ("Songs of Sorrento"), Germany Victor Hugo, Les Châtiments, France Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Kalevipoeg, Estonia (suppressed due to censorship)
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 18 - Ernest Fenollosa, American (died 1908) October 4 - Jane Maria Read, American poet and teacher (year of death unknown)
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 3 – August Kopisch, German poet and painter (born 1799) April 28 – Ludwig Tieck, German (born 1773) October 27 – Maria White Lowell, American (born 1821) December 2 – Amelia Opie, English novelist, writer and poet (born 1769) Dayaram, Indian, Gujarati-language poet (born 1757)