1848 in poetry

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

Events

 * Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founded by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, and John Everett Millais
 * End of the Biedermeier era of German literature, which began in 1815

United Kingdom

 * William Edmonstoune Aytoun, Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers
 * Cecil Frances Alexander, The Baron's Little Daughter, and Other Tales in Prose and Verse
 * John Stanyan Bigg, The Sea-King
 * A.H. Clough, The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich
 * Aubrey Thomas de Vere, English Misrule and Irish Deeds
 * Dora Greenwell, Poems
 * John Keats, Ode on Indolence first published, posthumously (the author died in 1821)
 * Charles Kingsley, The Saint's Tragedy
 * Walter Savage Landor, The Italics of Walter Savage Landor

United States

 * John Quincy Adams, Poems of Religion and Society
 * Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Female Poets of America, anthology
 * Henry Beck Hirst, Endymion
 * James Russell Lowell:
 * The Biglow Papers (1848)
 * A Fable for Critics: A Glance at a Few of Our Literary Progenies, book-length poem published as a pamphlet
 * Poems: Second Series
 * The Vision of Sir Launfal
 * Fitz-Greene Halleck, The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck, Now First Collected, New York: D. Appleton & Company
 * James Mathewes Legare, Orta-Undis, and Other Poems, the only book of poetry published in the author's lifetime; Boston: Ticknor and Company, printed at the author's expense
 * Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka: A Prose Poem, United States
 * Adrien Emmanuel Roquette, Wild Flowers: Sacred Poetry
 * William Gilmore Simms:
 * The Eye and the Wing, New York
 * Lays of the Palmetto: a Tribute to the South Carolina Regiment in the War with Mexico, Charleston
 * The Cassique of Accabee
 * Charleston and Her Satirists: A Scribblement
 * William Ross Wallace, Alban the Pirate

Canadian poetry in French

 * James Huston, editor, Le répertoire national, anthology of French Canadian poetry in four volumes, published from this year to 1850, including poetry by Joseph Mermet ("Les Boucheries: fêtes rurales du Canada"), Isidore Bédard ("Sol canadien, terre chérie]]), François-Xavier Garneau, Napoléon Aubin, François-Magloire Derome and Pierre Chauveau

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February 17 – Louisa Lawson (died 1920), Australian
 * August 13 – Romesh Chunder Dutt, (died 1909), Indian poet writing in English; cousin of Toru Dutt
 * Also:
 * Gobinda Rath (born 1918), Indian, Oriya-language poet and satirist

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 19 - Isaac D'Israeli
 * February 11 - Thomas Cole
 * February 23 - John Quincy Adams
 * May 25 – Annette von Droste-Hulshoff (born 1797), German author and poet
 * August 14 Sarah Fuller Flower Adams
 * December 19 - Emily Brontë