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

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

• March 18 – David Mills (died 1903), Canadian poet, politician, author and jurist
• June 13 – James Clerk Maxwell (died 1879), Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist whose poetry was published by a friend in 1881, two years after his death
• July 7 – Jane Elizabeth Conklin (died 1914), American poet and religious writer
• September 12 – Álvares de Azevedo (died 1852), Brazilian
• October 17 – Isa Craig (died 1903), Scots
• November 8 – Robert Bulwer-Lytton (died 1891), English novelist and poet
• December 22 – Charles Stuart Calverley, English poet, wit and literary father of what has been called "the university school of humour"
• Date not known – Charles R. Thatcher (thought to have died in 1882), Australian

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

• January 14 – Henry Mackenzie (born 1745), Scottish novelist, writer, critic and poet
• January 21 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim (born 1781), German poet and novelist
• March 8 - Laurence Hynes Halloran, 64, Irish-Australian pioneer schoolteacher and journalist; publishes poetry before being shipped to Australia as a convict
• May 11 – John Trumbull, 81 (born 1750), American^[4]
• June 30 - William Roscoe (born 1753), English poet
• December 23 - Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, 22 (born 1809), Indian poet writing in English and academic of Eurasian and Portuguese descent^[5]
• Also - Ryōkan 良寛 (born 1758), Japanese waka poet and calligrapher, Buddhist monk, often a hermit

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• 19th century in poetry
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• Golden Age of Russian Poetry (1800–1850)
• Weimar Classicism period in Germany, commonly considered to have begun in 1788 and to have ended either in 1805, with the death of Friedrich Schiller, or 1832, with the death of Goethe
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