# 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
* 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.

## Works published
### United Kingdom

* Cecil Frances Alexander, Moral Songs
* 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

### United States

* William Ellery Channing, The Woodman
* James T. Fields, Poems, Boston: William D. Ticknor and Company
* 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

### Other

* 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

## Births

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

## Deaths

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