1852 in poetry

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

United Kingdom

 * Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems
 * Alfred Tennyson, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington

United States

 * Thomas Holley Chivers, The Death of the Devil, A Serio-Ludicro, Tragico-Comico, Nigero-Whiteman Extravaganza
 * Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes
 * Richard Realf, Guesses at the Beautiful
 * Richard Henry Stoddard, Poems

France

 * Théophile Gautier's Emaux et camées
 * Leconte de Lisle, Poèmes antiques
 * Gérard de Nerval, et Les illuminés

Other

 * Andreas Munch, Sorg og Trøst, Norwegian
 * Theodor Storm, Gedichte ("Poems"), Germany

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February 24 – George Moore (died 1933) Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist
 * March 15 – Lady Gregory (died 1932), Irish dramatist, folklorist and poet
 * March 22 – Francis William Bourdillon (died 1921), English poet and translator
 * April 23 – Edwin Markham (died 1940), American poet
 * June 17 – M. A. Bayfield (died 1922), English classical scholar and writer on poetry
 * October 31 – Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (died 1930), American novelist and poet
 * November 10 – Henry van Dyke (died 1933), American author, poet, educator and clergyman
 * Also:
 * Ganesh Janardan Agasha (died 1919), Indian, Marathi-language poet and literary critic
 * Emma Maria Caillard
 * Moyinkutty Vaidyar (died 1891), Indian, Malayalam-language poet

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February 17 – Micah Joseph Lebensohn (born 1828), Lithuanian Jewish, Hebrew language poet (tuberculosis)
 * February 25 – Thomas Moore (born 1779), Irish-born poet and songwriter
 * April 10 – John Howard Payne (born 1791), American actor, playwright, author and consul in Tunis (1842–1852); most remembered as creator of "Home! Sweet Home!"
 * April 25 – Álvares de Azevedo (born 1831), Brazilian Ultra-Romantic poet and writer (tuberculosis)
 * May 3 – Sara Coleridge (born 1802), English writer
 * November 15 – John Hamilton Reynolds (born 1794), English poet, satirist, critic and playwright