1853 in poetry

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

United Kingdom

 * Cecil Frances Alexander, Narratyve Hymns for Village Schools
 * Matthew Arnold, Poems: a New Edition, the first collected edition of the author's poems; known as Poems: First Series (see also 1855); including "Sobrab and Rustum" and "The Scholar Gipsy"
 * R.D. Blackmore, writing under the pen name "Melanter", Poems by Melanter
 * Martha Browne, (a.k.a. Mattie Griffith) Poems
 * Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems (see also Poems 1844, 1850, 1856)
 * Caroline Clive, writing under the pen name "V", The Morlas
 * Sydney Dobell, Balder
 * Coventry Patmore, Tamerton Church-Tower (see also 1878)

United States

 * Thomas Holley Chivers:
 * Atlanta; or, the True Blessed Island of Poesy, a Paul Epic
 * Memoralia; or, Phials of Amber Full of the Tears of Love
 * Virginalia; or, Songs of My Summer Nights
 * Samuel Longfellow, Thalatta: A Book for the Sea-side, compiled with Thomas Wentworth Higginson
 * Lydia Huntley Sigourney, The Faded Hope
 * William Gilmore Simms, Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, in two volumes, Charleston, South Carolina: John Russell
 * Sarah Helen Whitman, Hours of Life
 * John Greenleaf Whittier, The Chapel of the Hermits

Other

 * Charles Harpur, The Bushrangers: a Play in Five Acts, and other Poems, Australia

Works published in other languages

 * Hilario Ascasubi, Aniceto el Gallo
 * Manuel António Álvares de Azevedo, Lira dos Vinte Anos (posthumous)
 * Victor Hugo, Les Châtiments, France

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February 18 - Ernest Fenollosa, American

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 3 – János Majláth, Hungarian
 * February 3 – August Kopisch, German
 * April 28 – Ludwig Tieck, German
 * December 2 – Amelia Opie (born 1769), English novelist, writer and poet
 * October 27 – Maria White Lowell, American