# 1826 in poetry

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

## Events

* June 2 – The Irvine Burns Club is formed at the Milne's Inn under the presidency of Dr. John MacKenzie, who had known the Scottish poet Robert Burns.

## Works published
### United Kingdom

* Eliza Acton, Poems, Ipswich: R. Deck
* Thomas Aird, Murtzoufle: a tragedy
* Anna Laetitia Barbauld, A Legacy for Young Ladies, poetry and prose, edited by Lucy Aikin, posthumous
* George Borrow, Romantic Ballads
* Elizabeth Barrett (later Browning), published anonymously, An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems
* James Hogg, Queen Hynde
* Thomas Hood, Whims and Oddities, poetry and prose (see also, Whims and Oddities 1827)
* Henry Hart Milman, Anne Boleyn
* Amelia Opie, The Black Man's Lament; or, How to Make Sugar
* Robert Millhouse, The Song of the Patriot: sonnets and songs.
* Ann Radcliffe, Gaston de Blondeville; Keeping Festival in Ardenne; St. Alban's Abbey, poetry and prose, with a memoir by Thomas Noon Talfourd; posthumously published
* Percy Bysshe Shelley, Miscellaneous and Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, unauthorized; parts reissued the same year as Miscellaneous Poems

### United States

* William Cullen Bryant, "I Cannot Forget with What Fervid Devotion", poem, first published this year, revised in 1832, possibly written as early as 1815
* Samuel Woodworth, Melodies, Duets, Songs, and Ballads, including "The Bucket" (first published in 1817 and first published in a collection in 1818); the poem was set to music and became popular as "The Old Oaken Bucket"); another poem in the collection is "The Hunters of Kentucky", a ballad praising those who helped General Andrew Jackson win the Battle of New Orleans, United States

### Other

* Ivan Gundulić (died 1638), Osman, an epic, first published (incomplete; oldest existing copy is from 1651), describes the 1621 Polish victory over the Turks at Chocim (Khotin, Ukraine), Croatia
* Wilhelm Hauff, editor, contributor, Kriegs- und Volks-Lieder ("War and Folk Songs"), anthology of poetry, including two of his own folk songs, "Reiters Morgengesang" ("Morning Song of the Rider") and "Soldatenliebe" ("Soldier's Love"), Germany
* Heinrich Heine, Germany
** Die Heimkehr ("The Homecoming")
** Die Nordsee ("The North Sea", first cycle)
* Friedrich Hölderlin, Gedichte, the author's first collected edition, Germany
* Victor Hugo, Odes et Ballades, France
* Adam Mickiewicz, Crimean Sonnets, inspired by a trip to Odessa during his exile in Russia, Poland
* Amable Tastu, Poésies, France
* Charles Tompson, Wild Notes from the Lyre of a Native Minstrel, the first volume of poetry written by a native-born Australian
* Alfred de Vigny, Poèmes antiques et modernes (expanded edition, 1829), France

## Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* February 27 – Cynthia Roberts Gorton, American poet and author (died 1894)
* March 12 – Robert Lowry, American hymnodist (died 1899)
* April 20 – Dinah Craik (born "Dinah Maria Mulock", also often credited as "Miss Mulock"), English novelist and poet (died 1887)
* July 4 – Stephen Foster, American songwriter (died 1864)

## Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* April 3 – Reginald Heber (born 1783), Church of England bishop, remembered chiefly as a hymn-writer
* June 23 – John Taylor (born 1750), English businessman, poet and hymn-writer
* June 27 – Mary Leadbeater (born 1758), Irish poet and writer
* July 25 (July 13 O.S.) – Kondraty Ryleyev (born 1795), Russian poet and revolutionary, hanged
* October 3 – Jens Baggesen (born 1764), Danish
* December 26 – Schack von Staffeldt (born 1769), Danish poet and Amtmann
* December 31 – William Gifford (born 1756), English satiric poet and literary editor
* William Glen (born 1789), Scottish