1855 in poetry

• June 12 – Gaisford Prize founded
• September 27 – Alfred Tennyson reads from his new book Maud and other poems at a social gathering in the home of Robert and Elizabeth Browning in London; Dante Gabriel Rossetti makes a sketch of him doing so{{cite web|title=Tennyson Reading 'Maud'|url=http://www.preraphaelites.org/the-collection/1904p495/tennyson-reading-maud/|work=Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource|publisher=Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery|accessdate=2013-05-09}}
• Belarusian writer Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich publishes «Гапон» (Hapon) in the Russian Empire, the first poem written wholly in modern Belarusian.

• Charles Heavysege:
• The Revolt of Tartarus, a poem in six parts (Montreal)
• Sonnets (Montreal: H. & G.M. Rose) {{cite encyclopedia|last=Bentley|first=D. M. R|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/poetry-in-english/|title=Poetry in English|encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia|accessdate=2009-02-08}}

• William Allingham, The Music-Master, illustrated by Arthur Hughes, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and John Everett Millais{{cite book|editor=Cox, Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}
• Matthew Arnold, Poems, Second Series (see also Poems 1853) including Balder Dead
• Philip James Bailey, The Mystic, and Other Poems (see also Festus 1839)
• William Cox Bennett:
• Anti-Maud, "by a poet of the people"; parody of Alfred Lord Tennyson's Maud (see below)
• War Songs
• Robert Browning, Men and Women, including Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton, writing under the pen name "Owen Meredith", Clytemnestra; The Earl's Return; The Artist, and Other Poems
• Thomas Campbell, The Pleasures of Hope, with Other Poems (first published 1799), illustrated by Birket Foster, George Housman Thomas and Harrison Weir
• Sydney Dobell, writing under the pen name "S. Yendeys", and Alexander Smith, Sonnets on the War
• Leigh Hunt, Stories in Verse, a collection of his narrative poems, original and translated
• George MacDonald, Within and Without, the author's first published book
• Louisa Shore, War Lyrics
• Alfred Tennyson, Maud and other poems, including The Charge of the Light Brigade (first published in a periodical in 1854), Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington 1852 (see also William Cox Bennett's Anti-Maud parody, above)
• Catherine Winkworth, Lyra Germanica, first series, a popular translation of Versuch eines allgemeinen evangelischen Gesang- und Gebetbuchs by Christian Karl Josias, Freiherr von Busen (second series published in 1858)

• Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Bells: A Collection of Chimes{{cite book|last1=Ludwig|first1=Richard M.|first2=Clifford A.|last2=Nault, Jr.|title=Annals of American Literature 1602-1983|url=https://archive.org/details/annalsofamerican00ludw|url-access=registration|year=1986|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|quote=If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year — Preface.|page=vi}}
• Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne, Poetical Works, posthumously published
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha, a very popular poem, often satirized from within days of its publication through the 20th century
• Bayard Taylor:
• Poems of the Orient
• Poems of Home and Travel
• Lucy Terry, first known African American poet, "Bars Fight, August 28, 1746", a ballad, posthumously published {{cite book|last1=Davis|first1=Cynthia|first2=Kathryn|last2=West|url=https://archive.org/details/womenwritersinun0000davi|url-access=registration|quote=Timeline poetry.|title=Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1996|isbn=978-0-19-509053-6|accessdate=2009-02-07}}
• Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, the first edition, self-published July 4; Whitman would make many revisions in succeeding editions

• Ricardo Palma, Poesías ("Poems"); Peru
• Christian Winther, Hjortens Flugt ("The Flight of the Hart"); 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:

• May 1 – Marie Corelli (Mary Mackay) (died 1924), English novelist
• May 21 – Emile Verhaeren (died 1916), Belgian French
• August 3 – Henry Cuyler Bunner (died 1896), American
• September 12 – William Sharp (died 1905), Scottish poet writing as "Fiona Macleod"
• December 15 – Maurice Bouchor (died 1929), French
• December 28 – Juan Zorrilla de San Martín (died 1931), Uruguayan
• Date not known:
• Devendranath Sen (died 1920), Indian, Bengali-language poet{{cite encyclopedia|last=Das|first=Sisir Kumar|title=A Chronology of Literary Events 1911-1956|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC|editor=Das, Sisir Kumar|encyclopedia=History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy|volume=2|year=1995|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-7201-798-9|accessdate=2008-12-23|display-editors=etal}}
• Govardhanram N. Tripathi (died 1907), Indian, Gujarati-language novelist and poet{{cite book|last=Mohan|first=Sarala Jag|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&q=Urdu+poets&pg=PA100|chapter=Chapter 4: Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature|editor1=Natarajan, Nalini |editor2=Nelson, Emanuel Sampath|title=Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India|location=Westport, Connecticut|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=1996|isbn=978-0-313-28778-7|accessdate=2008-12-10}}
• Alexander Young, Scottish

File:İstanbul 6137.jpg poet Adam Mickiewicz in a crypt under his apartment, now Adam Mickiewicz Museum, Istanbul (another museum dedicated to the poet is in Paris)]]

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

• January 3 – János Majláth (born 1786), Hungarian
• January 10 – Mary Russell Mitford (born 1787), English writer
• January 25 – Dorothy Wordsworth (born 1771), English diarist and companion to her poet brother William
• January 26 – Gérard de Nerval (born 1808), French
• March 31 – Charlotte Brontë (born 1816), English novelist and poet
• April 6 – Robert Davidson (born 1778), Scottish peasant poet
• June 29 – Delphine de Girardin (born 1804), French writer
• July 6 – Andrew Crosse (born 1784), English 'gentleman scientist' and poet
• November 26 – Adam Mickiewicz (born 1798), Polish Romantic, dies in Istanbul while organizing Polish and Jewish volunteers to fight against Russia in the Crimean War
• December 3 – Robert Montgomery (born 1807), English
• December 18 – Samuel Rogers (born 1763), English
• Date not known
• Mahmud Gami (born 1765), Indian, Kashmiri
• Sunthorn Phu (born 1786), Thai

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