1849 in poetry

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

Events

 * 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.

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

 * Christian Winther, Til Een ("To Someone"), Denmark

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * July 22 - Emma Lazarus, American
 * August 23 - William Ernest Henley (died 1903), English poet, critic and editor
 * September 3 - Sarah Orne Jewett, American
 * September 21 - Edmund Gosse (UK)
 * October 7 - James Whitcomb Riley, American
 * Also:
 * Stine Andresen (died 1927), German

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 6 - Hartley Coleridge, English
 * January 26 - Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English
 * February 8 - France Prešeren, Slovenian
 * February 19 - Bernard Barton, English
 * May 28 - Anne Brontë, English
 * June 20 - James Clarence Mangan, Irish
 * July 7 - Goffredo Mameli, Italian
 * October 7 - Edgar Allan Poe, American
 * December 1 - Ebenezer Elliott, English