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

[edit] Events

• John Clare is institutionalized as insane.
• The United States Magazine and Democratic Review established, a political and literary magazine that published Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau and others.

[edit] Works

• Richard Harris Barham's Ingoldsby Legends
• Eliza Cook's The Old Arm Chair
• Alphonse de Lamartine's Chute d'un ange
• George Moses Horton's Hope of Liberty -- Poems by a Slave (2nd edn.; first published as early as 1829)
• Thomas Love Peacock's The Paper Money Lyrics

[edit] Births

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

• March 6 - Sully Prudhomme, poet (died 1907)
• March 1 - William Dean Howells, American
• March 6 - Sully Prudhomme (died 1907), French
• April 5 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English
• September 8 - Joaquin Miller, American

Date not known:

• Julia Augusta Webster
• Forceythe Willson, American

[edit] Deaths

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

• January 29 - Aleksandr Pushkin (Russian), killed in a duel
• June 14 - Giacomo Leopardi (Italian)
• September 8 - Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (UK)

[edit] See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry