1825 in poetry

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

Events

 * La bibliothèque canadienne, a French Canadian magazine edited by Michel Bibaud, begins publishing this year (and will continue to 1830)

United Kingdom

 * Anna Laetitia Barbauld, The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, edited by Lucy Aikin
 * Sara Coleridge, translator from the French of Jacques de Mailles, The History of the Chevalier Bayard
 * Louisa Costello, Songs of a Stranger
 * Allan Cunningham, editor, The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern, anthology
 * Charles Dibdin, Comic Tales an Lyrical Fancies
 * Alexander Dyce, editor, Specimens of British Poetesses, anthology
 * Felicia Dorothea Hemans, The Forest Sanctuary, and Other Poems
 * Thomas Hood and J. H. Reynolds, published anonymously, Odes and Addresses to Great People
 * Leigh Hunt, Bacchus in Tuscany, translated from the Italian, Bacco in Tuscana ("Bacchus in Tuscany") by Francesco Redi
 * Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing under the pen name "L. E. L.", The Troubador, Catalogue of Pictures, and Historical Sketches
 * Robert Southey, A Tale of Paraguay
 * William Wordsworth, Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems

United States

 * John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, Occasional Pieces of Poetry, a well-received collection partly reprinting poems the author had contributed to the Connecticut Mirror, which he edited from 1822 to 1827
 * William Cullen Bryant:
 * Lectures on Poetry, a series of four lectures given at the New York Athenaeum, presenting his theory of poetry, influenced by English Romantic poets; he also objected to the ideas that America lacked poetic material, that the country's language was too primitive for poetry and that American society was too pragmatic and materialistic to support a national poetry
 * A Forest Hymn
 * The Death of the Flowers
 * Charles Follen, Hymns for Children
 * Fitz-Greene Halleck, "Marco Bozzaris", inspired by the death of Bozarris, a Greek hero in the war of independence against the Ottoman Empire; the work appeared in several periodicals and was praised, although Edgar Allan Poe criticized it as lacking in lyricism
 * William Leggett, Leisure Hours at Sea
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poems published in several newspapers and the United States Literary Gazette include: "Autumnal Nightfall", "Woods in Winter", "The Angler's Song", and "Hymn of the Moravian Nuns"
 * Edward Coote Pinkney, Poems, lyric verses including "Rudolph, a Fragment" (first published separately 1823)), in the style of Lord Byron
 * William Gilmore Simms, Monody on Gen. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charleston

Other languages

 * Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Elégies et Poésies nouvelles, France
 * Adam Mickiewicz, Crimean Sonnets, Poland

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * Peter John Allan, Canadian
 * John Askham
 * Dhiro (born 1753), devotional poet
 * Henrietta Anne Huxley
 * Thomas Henry Huxley
 * Adelaide Anne Procter
 * Bayard Taylor, American
 * Frances Ellen Watkins, American

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * March 9 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, (born 1743), English
 * Lady Anne Barnard
 * Mary Darwall
 * Lucretia Maria Davidson
 * William Knox, Scots
 * Lady Anne Lindsay