1841 in poetry

''The year's at the spring, ''And day's at the morn; ''Morning's at seven; ''The hill-side's dew-pearled; ''The lark's on the wing; ''The snail's on the thorn; ''God's in his Heaven - ''All's right with the world!

&mdash; Robert Browning, Pippa Passes, published this year

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

Events

 * Victor Hugo is elected to the Académie Française, in his fifth attempt.

United Kingdom

 * Sarah Fuller Adams, Viva Prpetua: A dramatic poem
 * Robert Browning, Pippa Passes, verse drama
 * W. J. Fox, Hymns and Anthems, 150 numbered hymns without music, 13 by Sarah Fuller Adams, including "Nearer, my God, to thee"; anthology
 * Thomas Moore, The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, in 10 volumes, published starting in 1840 and ending this year; Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

United States

 * Ralph Waldo Emerson:
 * "Compensation"
 * "The Sphinx", first published in the Dial this year, it was later included in Emerson's Poems 1847
 * William Davis Gallagher, editor, Selections from the Poetical Literature of the West, one of the earliest American regional poetry anthologies; includes poems by 38 writers in the West, including Gallagher's own very popular poem, "Miami Woods"
 * Charles Follen, Works, poetry and prose, published this year and in 1842
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Ballads and other Poems, including "The Wreck of the Hesperus", "The Village Blacksmith", "Elcelsior" and "The Skeleton in Armor"
 * James Russell Lowell, A Year's Life
 * Cornelius Mathews, Wakondah; The Master of Life, a narrative poem about prehistoric Native Americans
 * Frances Sargent Osgood, The Poetry of Flowers and the Flowers of Poetry
 * Adrien Emmanuel Rouquette, Les savanes
 * Lydia Howard Sigourney:
 * Pocahontas, and Other Poems, New York: Harper & Brothers
 * Poems, Religious and Elegiac
 * Seba Smith, Powhatan

Other in English

 * Thomas Moore, The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, in 10 volumes, published starting in 1840 and ending this year; Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
 * Standish O'Grady, The Emigrant, a long narrative poem, Irish-born Canadian

Works published in other languages

 * Mikhail Lermontov, The Demon: An Eastern Tale, Russia
 * Frederik Paludan-Müller:
 * Adam Homo, three-volume novel in verse, published starting this year to 1848, Denmark
 * Venus
 * Alexander Pushkin, The Bronze Horseman, Russia

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * March 10 – Ina Donna Coolbrith (died 1928), American
 * March 21 – Mathilde Blind (died 1896 in poetry), English
 * May 22 – Catulle Mendès, French
 * August 18 – Robert Williams Buchanan, Scots
 * November 10 – Joaquin Miller, American


 * Date not known:
 * (Born March, 21 1841 in Mannheim, Germany - 1896)
 * Charles Edward Carryl (died 1909)
 * April 29 – Edward Rowland Sill (died 1887), American

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February 19 – Ulrika Widström, (born 1764), Swedish poet and translator
 * May 20 – Joseph Blanco White, English
 * July 27 – Mikhail Lermontov, (born 1814), Russian, duel
 * September 16 – Thomas John Dibdin, English

Also:
 * George Dyer, English
 * Standish O'Grady about this year (born 1793), Irish-Canadian poet and priest