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)
 * Dalry Burns Club established to honour the memory of Scottish poet Robert Burns; it claims the longest unbroken record of Burns suppers.

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
 * Robert Davidson, Poems, Scotland
 * Charles Dibdin the younger, Comic Tales and 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
 * Maria Jane Jewsbury, Phantasmagoria, poetry and prose
 * William Knox, Harp of Zion, Scotland
 * 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

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

 * Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Elégies et Poésies nouvelles, France
 * Adam Mickiewicz, Crimean Sonnets, Poland
 * Kondraty Ryleyev, Rogneda, Russia, approximate date

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 11 – Bayard Taylor (died 1878), American poet and travel writer
 * May 4 – Thomas Henry Huxley (died 1895), English evolutionist and occasional poet (Nettie, born Henrietta Heathorn (died 1914), his wife, is also born this year)
 * June 6 – Peter John Allan (died 1848), Canadian poet
 * July 20 or 25 – John Askham (died 1894), English shoemaker and poet
 * September 24 – Frances Harper, born Frances Ellen Watkins (died 1911), black American poet and abolitionist
 * October 30 – Adelaide Anne Procter (died 1864), English poet and philanthropist
 * Dhiro (born 1753), Gujarati devotional poet

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * March 9 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld (born 1743), English poet
 * May 6 – Lady Anne Barnard (born 1750), Scottish-born ballad and travel writer
 * August 12 – Magdalene Sophie Buchholm (born 1758), Norwegian poet
 * August 27 – Lucretia Maria Davidson (born 1808), American poet, of consumption
 * November 12 – William Knox (born 1789), Scottish poet, of a stroke
 * December 5 – Mary Whateley (born 1738), English poet and hymnodist