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

• May – Antoni de Bofarull and Víctor Balaguer re-establish the Barcelona Floral Games (jocs florals), contests for Catalan Renaixença poetry.
• The first translation of Adam Mickiewicz's Polish epic poem Pan Tadeusz (1834) into a different language, Belarusian, is made by Belarusian writer and dramatist Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich, in Vilnius^[1] but because of pressure from the authorities of the ruling Russian Empire he is able to publish only the first two chapters of the poem.

• Victor Hugo, La Légende des siècles, first series (see other series 1877, 1883), France^[5]
• Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Premières Poésies, France
• Frédéric Mistral, Mireio, France
• Casimiro de Abreu, As Primaveras, Brazil

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

• January 13 (January 8 OS) – Kostis Palamas (died 1943), Greek poet
• February 24 – Susie Frances Riley, Canadian poet^[6]
• February 25 – James Kenneth Stephen (died 1892), English poet and tutor to Prince Albert Victor, son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
• March 26 – A. E. Housman (died 1936), English classical scholar and poet
• April 5 – William Herbert Carruth (died 1924), American educator and poet
• May 6 – Willem Kloos (died 1938), Dutch poet and critic
• June 10 – Jacques Perk (died 1881), Dutch poet
• June 12 – Guido Mazzoni (died 1943), Italian poet
• July 17 – Ernest Rhys (died 1946), English writer, essayist, poet, novelist, playwright and short-story writer best known as founding editor of Everyman's Library series of affordable classics
• July 25 – Minnie Gow Walsworth (died 1947), American poet
• August 12 – Katharine Lee Bates (died 1929), American poet best known as the author of the words to the anthem "America the Beautiful"; her poem "Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride" (1889) popularizes "Mrs. Santa Claus"
• September 19 – Annie Wall Barnett (died 1942), American poet
• November 2 – Augusta Peaux (died 1944), Dutch poet
• November 4 – Perceval Gibbon (died 1926), South African poet, short-story writer, author and journalist
• December 16 – Francis Thompson (died 1907) English poet
• Also – Narasinghrao (died 1937), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and writer^[7]

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

• January 23 – Bettina von Arnim (born 1785), German writer, poet, composer and novelist
• January 23 – Iswarchandra Gupta (born 1811), Bengali poet and writer
• February 13 – Eliza Acton (born 1799), English poet and cook who produced one of the country's first cookbooks aimed at the domestic reader rather than the professional
• March 30 – James Matthews Legaré (born 1823), American poet and failed inventor
• April 3 – Reginald Heber (born 1783, English Anglican bishop, poet and hymn writer
• April 14 – Sydney, Lady Morgan, née Owenson (born about 1781), Irish novelist and poet
• July 23 – Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (born 1786), French
• August 28 – Leigh Hunt (born 1784), English critic, essayist, poet and writer
• November 28 – Washington Irving (born 1783) American author, essayist, biographer, historian and poet
• December 28 – Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (born 1800) English historian, Whig politician and poet

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