1849 in poetry

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

Events

January - "What is Poetry? And What Is It Good For?" essay by John Neal published in Sartain's Union Magazine{{cite book | last = Sears | first = Donald A. | title = John Neal | publisher = Twayne Publishers | location = Boston, Massachusetts | year = 1978 | isbn = 080-5-7723-08 | page = 147}}
November 14 - A public festival is held in Denmark to celebrate the 70th birthday of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger
La Tribune des Peuples, a pan-European romantic nationalist periodical, is published between March and November by Adam Mickiewicz.

Cecil Frances Alexander, Moral SongsCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN|0-19-860634-6}}
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 (each series in a separate volume), 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

William Ellery Channing, The WoodmanLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
James T. Fields, Poems, Boston: William D. Ticknor and CompanyFields, James T., [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;q1=poem;q2=poetry;q3=verse;op2=or;op3=or;rgn=pages;view=image;seq=3;idno=abr6934.0001.001;didno=ABR6934.0001.001;page=root;size=s;frm=frameset; Poems, title page], Boston: William D. Ticknor and Company, retrieved via Making of America website on March 4, 2009
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

Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Songes, Sweden
Petrus Augustus de Genestet, De Sint-Nicolaasavond ("Saint Nicholas's Eve"), 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 ("To Someone"), Denmark{{cite book|author1=Preminger, Alex |author2=Brogan, T. V. F. |title=The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics|year=1993|location=New York|publisher=MJF Books/Fine Communications|display-authors=etal}}

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

July 22 - Emma Lazarus (died 1887), American
July 30 - Lettie S. Bigelow (died 1906), American
August 1 - William Larminie (died 1900), Irish poet and folklorist
August 23 - William Ernest Henley (died 1903), English poet, critic and editor
September 3 - Sarah Orne Jewett (died 1909), American regional fiction writer and poet
September 21 - Edmund Gosse (died 1928), English poet, critic and memoirist
October 7 - James Whitcomb Riley (died 1916), American dialect poet
November 18 - Libbie C. Riley Baer (died 1929), American patriotic poet
December 23 - Stine Andresen (died 1927), German

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

January 6 - Hartley Coleridge (born 1796), English poet and writer
January 26 - Thomas Lovell Beddoes (born 1803), English poet, dramatist and physician
February 8 - France Prešeren (born 1800), Slovenian Romantic poet
February 19 - Bernard Barton (born 1784), English Quaker poet
May 28 - Anne Brontë (born 1820), English novelist and poet (tuberculosis)
June 20 - James Clarence Mangan (born 1803), Irish poet (cholera)
July 7 - Goffredo Mameli (born 1827), Italian patriot and poet
July 31 - Sándor Petőfi (born 1823), Hungarian poet and revolutionary (probably killed in Battle of Segesvár)
October 7 - Edgar Allan Poe (born 1809), American short-story writer, poet and editor
December 1 - Ebenezer Elliott (born 1781), English "Corn Law rhymer"
date unknown — Cynthia Taggart (born 1801), American poet