1849 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.Events
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Cecil Frances Alexander, Moral Songs
- Matthew Arnold, writing under the pen name "A", The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems
- William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, and Other Poems
- Robert Browning, Poems, his first collected edition
- Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, King Arthur, first published in three parts, 1848-1849
- Edward Caswall, Lyra Catholica
- A. H. Clough, Ambarvalia
- Robert Southey, all posthumously published:
- * Southey's Common-place Book: First Series, and Second Series, edited by John Wood Warter, poetry and prose
- * The Life and Correspondence of the Late Robert Southey, edited by Cuthbert Southey, biography
- Isaac Williams, The Christian Scholar
United States">American poetry">United States
- William Ellery Channing, The Woodman
- James T. Fields, Poems, Boston: William D. Ticknor and Company
- Caroline Howard Gilman, Verses of a Life-time
- Henry Beck Hirst, The Penance of Roland
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Poems
- Richard Henry Stoddard, Foot-Prints
- Alfred Billings Street, Frontenac
Other
- Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Songes, Sweden
- Petrus Augustus de Genestet, De Sint-Nicolaasavond, Netherlands
- Micah Joseph Lebensohn, Harisut Troya, translation of Virgil's Aeneid after Schiller, Lithuania, Hebrew language
- Elias Lönnrot, comp., Kalevala, new version, Finland
- Fazal Shah Sayyad, Sohni Mahiwal, India, Punjabi language
- Christian Winther, Til Een, Denmark
Births
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- January 6 - Hartley Coleridge, English poet and writer
- January 26 - Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet, dramatist and physician
- February 8 - France Prešeren, Slovenian Romantic poet
- February 19 - Bernard Barton, English Quaker poet
- May 28 - Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet
- June 20 - James Clarence Mangan, Irish poet
- July 7 - Goffredo Mameli, Italian patriot and poet
- July 31 - Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet and revolutionary
- October 7 - Edgar Allan Poe, American short-story writer, poet and editor
- December 1 - Ebenezer Elliott, English "Corn Law rhymer"
