1844 in poetry

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

United Kingdom

 * Isabella Banks, Ivy Leaves, including "Neglected Wife"
 * William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
 * Frances Browne, The Star of Atteghei; The Vision of Schwartz, and Other Poems
 * Elizabeth Barrett (later Elizabeth Barrett Browning), Poems, including "A Drama of Exile" and ballads
 * Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, The Two Destinies
 * Frederick William Faber, Sir Lancelot
 * Leigh Hunt, What is Poetry?, critical essay
 * Monckton Milnes, Palm Leaves
 * Coventry Patmore, Poems

United States

 * Lydia Maria Child – "Over the River and Through the Wood"
 * James Freeman Clarke, Hymn Book for the Church of the Disciples (expanded edition, 1852)
 * Christopher Pearse Cranch, Poems
 * Samuel Henry Dickson, Poems, including his popular "I Sigh for the Land of the Cypress and Pine"
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet an essay of literary criticism in Essays, Second Series
 * Rufus Wilmot Griswold, The Poets and Poetry of England in the Nineteenth Century, anthology
 * Charles Fenno Hoffman, The Echo
 * William H. C. Hosmer, Yonnonidio, or Warriors of the Genesee
 * Sarah Anna Lewis, Records of the Heart
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, editor, Poets and Poetry of Europe, anthology
 * James Russell Lowell, Poems
 * Epes Sargent, The Light of the Lighthouse and Other Poems
 * Lydia Maria Child, Flowers for Children, Volume 2, including "Over the River and Through the Woods", which was later set to music
 * Bayard Taylor, Ximena; or, The Battle of the Sierra Morena and Other Poems

Works published in other languages

 * Aleardo Aleardi, l' Arnalda di Roca ("Rock of Arnalda"), Italy
 * Heinrich Heine, German poet and author living in France:
 * Neue Gedichte ("New Poems")
 * Deutschland Ein Wintermarchen, long narrative poem on political and topics
 * Frederik Paludan-Müller, Denmark:
 * Dryadens bryllup ("The Dryad's Wedding")
 * Tithon ("Tithonus")
 * Abels Død ("The Death of Abel")
 * Henrik Wergeland, Norway:
 * Den Engelske Lods ("The English Pilot")
 * Jødinden ("The Jewess")

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February 8 – Richard Watson Gilder (died 1909), American poet and editor
 * March 14 – Arthur O'Shaughnessy (died 1881), English poet and herpetologist
 * March 30 – Paul Verlaine (died 1896), French Symbolistt poet
 * March 31 – Andrew Lang (died 1912), Scottish writer
 * June 28 – John Boyle O'Reilly (died 1890), Irish-born American poet, journalist and fiction writer
 * July 21 – Matilda Maranda Crawford (died 1920), American-Canadian poet, writer, correspondent
 * July 28 – Gerard Manley Hopkins (died 1889), English poet and Jesuit priest
 * October 12 – George Washington Cable (died 1925), American novelist
 * October 13 – Ernest Myers (died 1921), English poet and classicist
 * October 23
 * Robert Bridges (died 1939), English Poet Laureate
 * Laura Rosamond White (died 1922), American poet, author, and editor
 * November 12 – Ismail Merathi (died 1917), Indian poet from Mughal and British era
 * November 21 – Ada Cambridge (died 1926), English writer and poet living in Australia after 1870
 * Date not known:
 * Caroline Lindsay (died 1921), English
 * Venmani Mahan Namboodiri (died 1893), Indian, Malayalam-language poet associated with the Venmani School of poetry
 * Arabella Eugenia Smith (died 1916), American

Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * March 6 – Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, (born 1803), American poet and teacher
 * June 15 – Thomas Campbell (born 1777), Scottish poet especially of sentimental poetry dealing with human affairs
 * November 21 – Ivan Krylov (1769), Russian fabulist
 * Date not known – Margaret Miller Davidson, senior (born 1787), American novelist, mother of poets Lucretia Maria Davidson, Margaret Miller Davidson and Levi P. Davidson