1826 in poetry

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

Events

 * June 2 – The Irvine Burns Club is formed at the Milne's Inn under the presidency of Dr. John MacKenzie, who had known the Scottish poet Robert Burns.

United Kingdom

 * Eliza Acton, Poems, Ipswich: R. Deck
 * Thomas Aird, Murtzoufle: a tragedy
 * Anna Laetitia Barbauld, A Legacy for Young Ladies, poetry and prose, edited by Lucy Aikin, posthumous
 * George Borrow, Romantic Ballads
 * Elizabeth Barrett (later Browning), published anonymously, An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems
 * James Hogg, Queen Hynde
 * Thomas Hood, Whims and Oddities, poetry and prose (see also, Whims and Oddities 1827)
 * Henry Hart Milman, Anne Boleyn
 * Amelia Opie, The Black Man's Lament; or, How to Make Sugar
 * Robert Millhouse, The Song of the Patriot: sonnets and songs.
 * Ann Radcliffe, Gaston de Blondeville; Keeping Festival in Ardenne; St. Alban's Abbey, poetry and prose, with a memoir by Thomas Noon Talfourd; posthumously published
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley, Miscellaneous and Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, unauthorized; parts reissued the same year as Miscellaneous Poems

United States

 * William Cullen Bryant, "I Cannot Forget with What Fervid Devotion", poem, first published this year, revised in 1832, possibly written as early as 1815
 * Samuel Woodworth, Melodies, Duets, Songs, and Ballads, including "The Bucket" (first published in 1817 and first published in a collection in 1818); the poem was set to music and became popular as "The Old Oaken Bucket"); another poem in the collection is "The Hunters of Kentucky", a ballad praising those who helped General Andrew Jackson win the Battle of New Orleans, United States

Other

 * Ivan Gundulić (died 1638), Osman, an epic, first published (incomplete; oldest existing copy is from 1651), describes the 1621 Polish victory over the Turks at Chocim (Khotin, Ukraine), Croatia
 * Wilhelm Hauff, editor, contributor, Kriegs- und Volks-Lieder ("War and Folk Songs"), anthology of poetry, including two of his own folk songs, "Reiters Morgengesang" ("Morning Song of the Rider") and "Soldatenliebe" ("Soldier's Love"), Germany
 * Heinrich Heine, Germany
 * Die Heimkehr ("The Homecoming")
 * Die Nordsee ("The North Sea", first cycle)
 * Friedrich Hölderlin, Gedichte, the author's first collected edition, Germany
 * Victor Hugo, Odes et Ballades, France
 * Adam Mickiewicz, Crimean Sonnets, inspired by a trip to Odessa during his exile in Russia, Poland
 * Amable Tastu, Poésies, France
 * Charles Tompson, Wild Notes from the Lyre of a Native Minstrel, the first volume of poetry written by a native-born Australian
 * Alfred de Vigny, Poèmes antiques et modernes (expanded edition, 1829), France

Births
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 * February 27 – Cynthia Roberts Gorton, American poet and author (died 1894)
 * March 12 – Robert Lowry, American hymnodist (died 1899)
 * April 20 – Dinah Craik (born "Dinah Maria Mulock", also often credited as "Miss Mulock"), English novelist and poet (died 1887)
 * July 4 – Stephen Foster, American songwriter (died 1864)

Deaths
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 * April 3 – Reginald Heber (born 1783), Church of England bishop, remembered chiefly as a hymn-writer
 * June 23 – John Taylor (born 1750), English businessman, poet and hymn-writer
 * June 27 – Mary Leadbeater (born 1758), Irish poet and writer
 * July 25 (July 13 O.S.) – Kondraty Ryleyev (born 1795), Russian poet and revolutionary, hanged
 * October 3 – Jens Baggesen (born 1764), Danish
 * December 26 – Schack von Staffeldt (born 1769), Danish poet and Amtmann
 * December 31 – William Gifford (born 1756), English satiric poet and literary editor
 * William Glen (born 1789), Scottish