1849 in poetry

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

Events

 * January - "What is Poetry? And What Is It Good For?" essay by John Neal published in Sartain's Union Magazine
 * November 14 - A public festival is held in Denmark to celebrate the 70th birthday of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger
 * La Tribune des Peuples, a pan-European romantic nationalist periodical, is published between March and November by Adam Mickiewicz.

United Kingdom

 * Cecil Frances Alexander, Moral Songs
 * Matthew Arnold, writing under the pen name "A", The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems
 * William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, and Other Poems
 * Robert Browning, Poems, his first collected edition
 * Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, King Arthur, first published in three parts, 1848–1849
 * Edward Caswall, Lyra Catholica
 * A. H. Clough, Ambarvalia
 * Robert Southey, all posthumously published:
 * Southey's Common-place Book: First Series, and Second Series (each series in a separate volume), edited by John Wood Warter, poetry and prose
 * The Life and Correspondence of the Late Robert Southey, edited by Cuthbert Southey, biography
 * Isaac Williams, The Christian Scholar

United States

 * William Ellery Channing, The Woodman
 * James T. Fields, Poems, Boston: William D. Ticknor and Company
 * Caroline Howard Gilman, Verses of a Life-time
 * Henry Beck Hirst, The Penance of Roland
 * Oliver Wendell Holmes, Poems
 * Richard Henry Stoddard, Foot-Prints
 * Alfred Billings Street, Frontenac

Other

 * Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Songes, Sweden
 * Petrus Augustus de Genestet, De Sint-Nicolaasavond ("Saint Nicholas's Eve"), Netherlands
 * Micah Joseph Lebensohn, Harisut Troya, translation of Virgil's Aeneid after Schiller, Lithuania, Hebrew language
 * Elias Lönnrot, comp., Kalevala, new version, Finland
 * Fazal Shah Sayyad, Sohni Mahiwal, India, Punjabi language
 * Christian Winther, Til Een ("To Someone"), Denmark

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * July 22 - Emma Lazarus (died 1887), American
 * July 30 - Lettie S. Bigelow (died 1906), American
 * August 1 - William Larminie (died 1900), Irish poet and folklorist
 * August 23 - William Ernest Henley (died 1903), English poet, critic and editor
 * September 3 - Sarah Orne Jewett (died 1909), American regional fiction writer and poet
 * September 21 - Edmund Gosse (died 1928), English poet, critic and memoirist
 * October 7 - James Whitcomb Riley (died 1916), American dialect poet
 * November 18 - Libbie C. Riley Baer (died 1929), American patriotic poet
 * December 23 - Stine Andresen (died 1927), German

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 6 - Hartley Coleridge (born 1796), English poet and writer
 * January 26 - Thomas Lovell Beddoes (born 1803), English poet, dramatist and physician
 * February 8 - France Prešeren (born 1800), Slovenian Romantic poet
 * February 19 - Bernard Barton (born 1784), English Quaker poet
 * May 28 - Anne Brontë (born 1820), English novelist and poet (tuberculosis)
 * June 20 - James Clarence Mangan (born 1803), Irish poet (cholera)
 * July 7 - Goffredo Mameli (born 1827), Italian patriot and poet
 * July 31 - Sándor Petőfi (born 1823), Hungarian poet and revolutionary (probably killed in Battle of Segesvár)
 * October 7 - Edgar Allan Poe (born 1809), American short-story writer, poet and editor
 * December 1 - Ebenezer Elliott (born 1781), English "Corn Law rhymer"
 * date unknown — Cynthia Taggart (born 1801), American poet