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

Events

July – English "peasant poet" John Clare first enters an asylum for the insane, at High Beach in Essex.
October – The United States Magazine and Democratic Review is established by John L. O'Sullivan, a political and literary magazine that publishes Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau and others.^[1]

Richard Harris Barham's Ingoldsby Legends
Lord Byron, Dramas (poetry, despite the title)^[2]
Eliza Cook's The Old Armchair
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters and Works, including introductory anecdotes by Lady Louisa Stuart (See also Works 1803)^[2]
Thomas Love Peacock's The Paper Money Lyrics
Robert Southey, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, first two volumes published this year; second two volumes published in 1838^[2]
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing under the pen name "L.E.L." Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1838

Thomas Holley Chivers, Nacoochee^[3]
George Moses Horton's Hope of Liberty — Poems by a Slave, a second edition of Hope of Liberty, originally published in 1829; the new edition was published in Philadelphia by an antislavery group; Horton received no royalties (although the North Carolina slave was trying to earn money for his freedom), and likely didn't even know that this and another edition had been published in Boston in 1838);^[3] contains 23 poems, including three on the author's feelings about having been a slave;^[4]
Frederick William Shelton, The Trollopiad; or, Travelling Gentlemen in America, a verse satire on British travel writer Frances Trollope, who wrote harshly about Americans in her Domestic Manners of the Americans 1832^[4]
John Greenleaf Whittier, Poems Written During the Progress of the Abolition Question in the United States, the author's first poetry book, published in an unauthorized edition by Boston abolitionists; the next year, Whittier expanded the collection and published it under the title Poems; includes poems attacking slavery, such as "Clerical Oppressors", which focuses on Southern church leaders who use Christianity to defend slavery, and "Stanzas", on the irony of America's commitments to both freedom and slavery^[4]

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

January 30 – Augusta Webster, born Julia Augusta Davies (died 1894), English
February 24 – Rosalía de Castro (died 1885), Spanish Galician poet and writer
March 1 – William Dean Howells (died 1920), American writer, editor and critic
March 18 – Eliza A. Pittsinger (died 1908), American, "The California Poetess"
April 1 – Jorge Isaacs, born Jorge Isaacs Ferrer (died 1895), Colombian writer, politician and explorer
April 5 – Algernon Charles Swinburne (died 1909), English
April 10 – Forceythe Willson, born Byron Forceythe Willson (died 1867), American
July 14 – Estella Hijmans-Hertzveld (died 1881), Dutch
September 8 – Joaquin Miller, born Cincinnatus Heine Miller (died 1913), American "Poet of the Sierras"
Undated – Ram Sharma (died 1918), Indian, English-language poet and journalist

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

January 29 – Alexander Pushkin (born 1799), Russian poet, killed in a duel
June 14 – Giacomo Leopardi (born 1798), Italian poet, philosopher, essayist and philologist
March 15 – Lukijan Mušicki (born 1777), Serbian poet, prose writer and polyglot
September 8 – Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (born 1762), English
October 17 – George Colman the Younger (born 1762), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer
October 19 – Hendrik Doeff (born 1764), Dutch trader, the first westerner to write haiku in Japanese
November 11 – Thomas Green Fessenden (born 1771), American^[6]

^ "Making of America". Cornell University Library. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
^ ^a ^b ^c Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ ^a ^b Rubin, Louis D., Jr., The Literary South, John Wiley & Sons, 1979, ISBN 0-471-04659-0
^ ^a ^b ^c Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
^ ^a ^b Rees, William (1992). The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-042385-3.
^ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009.