# 1844 in poetry

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

## Works published in English
### United Kingdom

* Isabella Banks, Ivy Leaves, including "Neglected Wife"
* William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
* Frances Browne, The Star of Atteghei; The Vision of Schwartz, and Other Poems
* Elizabeth Barrett (later Elizabeth Barrett Browning), Poems, including "A Drama of Exile" and ballads
* Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, The Two Destinies
* Frederick William Faber, Sir Lancelot
* Leigh Hunt, What is Poetry?, critical essay
* Monckton Milnes, Palm Leaves
* Coventry Patmore, Poems

### United States

* Lydia Maria Child – "Over the River and Through the Wood"
* James Freeman Clarke, Hymn Book for the Church of the Disciples (expanded edition, 1852)
* Christopher Pearse Cranch, Poems
* Samuel Henry Dickson, Poems, including his popular "I Sigh for the Land of the Cypress and Pine"
* Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet an essay of literary criticism in Essays, Second Series
* Rufus Wilmot Griswold, The Poets and Poetry of England in the Nineteenth Century, anthology
* Charles Fenno Hoffman, The Echo
* William H. C. Hosmer, Yonnonidio, or Warriors of the Genesee
* Sarah Anna Lewis, Records of the Heart
* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, editor, Poets and Poetry of Europe, anthology
* James Russell Lowell, Poems
* Epes Sargent, The Light of the Lighthouse and Other Poems
* Lydia Maria Child, Flowers for Children, Volume 2, including "Over the River and Through the Woods", which was later set to music
* Bayard Taylor, Ximena; or, The Battle of the Sierra Morena and Other Poems

## Works published in other languages

* Aleardo Aleardi, l' Arnalda di Roca ("Rock of Arnalda"), Italy
* Heinrich Heine, German poet and author living in France:
** Neue Gedichte ("New Poems")
** Deutschland Ein Wintermarchen, long narrative poem on political and topics
* Frederik Paludan-Müller, Denmark:
** Dryadens bryllup ("The Dryad's Wedding")
** Tithon ("Tithonus")
** Abels Død ("The Death of Abel")
* Henrik Wergeland, Norway:
** Den Engelske Lods ("The English Pilot")
** Jødinden ("The Jewess")

## Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* February 8 – Richard Watson Gilder (died 1909), American poet and editor
* March 14 – Arthur O'Shaughnessy (died 1881), English poet and herpetologist
* March 30 – Paul Verlaine (died 1896), French Symbolistt poet
* March 31 – Andrew Lang (died 1912), Scottish writer
* June 28 – John Boyle O'Reilly (died 1890), Irish-born American poet, journalist and fiction writer
* July 21 – Matilda Maranda Crawford (died 1920), American-Canadian poet, writer, correspondent
* July 28 – Gerard Manley Hopkins (died 1889), English poet and Jesuit priest
* October 12 – George Washington Cable (died 1925), American novelist
* October 13 – Ernest Myers (died 1921), English poet and classicist
* October 23
** Robert Bridges (died 1939), English Poet Laureate
** Laura Rosamond White (died 1922), American poet, author, and editor
* November 12 – Ismail Merathi (died 1917), Indian poet from Mughal and British era
* November 21 – Ada Cambridge (died 1926), English writer and poet living in Australia after 1870
* Date not known:
** Caroline Lindsay (died 1921), English
** Venmani Mahan Namboodiri (died 1893), Indian, Malayalam-language poet associated with the Venmani School of poetry
** Arabella Eugenia Smith (died 1916), American

## Deaths

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* March 6 – Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, (born 1803), American poet and teacher
* June 15 – Thomas Campbell (born 1777), Scottish poet especially of sentimental poetry dealing with human affairs
* November 21 – Ivan Krylov (1769), Russian fabulist
* Date not known – Margaret Miller Davidson, senior (born 1787), American novelist, mother of poets Lucretia Maria Davidson, Margaret Miller Davidson and Levi P. Davidson