1853 in poetry

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

Events

 * October 27 – English poet Alfred Tennyson settles at Farringford House on the Isle of Wight.

United Kingdom

 * Mrs. Cecil Frances Alexander, Narratyve Hymns for Village Schools
 * Matthew Arnold, Poems: a New Edition, the first collected edition of the author's poems; known as Poems: First Series (see also 1855); including "Sobrab and Rustum" and "The Scholar Gipsy"
 * R. D. Blackmore, writing under the pen name "Melanter", Poems by Melanter
 * Martha Browne, (a.k.a. Mattie Griffith) Poems
 * Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems (see also Poems 1844, 1850, 1856)
 * Caroline Clive, writing under the pen name "V", The Morlas
 * Sydney Dobell, Balder
 * Coventry Patmore, Tamerton Church-Tower (see also 1878)
 * Alexander Smith, Poems, Scottish poet

United States

 * Thomas Holley Chivers:
 * Atlanta; or, the True Blessed Island of Poesy, a Paul Epic
 * Memoralia; or, Phials of Amber Full of the Tears of Love
 * Virginalia; or, Songs of My Summer Nights
 * Samuel Longfellow, Thalatta: A Book for the Sea-side, compiled with Thomas Wentworth Higginson
 * Lydia Huntley Sigourney, The Faded Hope
 * William Gilmore Simms, Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, in two volumes, Charleston, South Carolina: John Russell
 * Sarah Helen Whitman, Hours of Life
 * John Greenleaf Whittier, The Chapel of the Hermits

Other

 * Peter John Allan (died 1848), Poetical Remains of Peter John Allan, Esq., Canadian poet published in London
 * Charles Harpur, The Bushrangers: a Play in Five Acts, and other Poems, Australia

Works published in other languages

 * Hilario Ascasubi, Aniceto el Gallo, Argentina
 * Álvares de Azevedo, Lira dos Vinte Anos, Brazil (posthumous)
 * Paul Heyse, Lieder aus Sorrent ("Songs of Sorrento"), Germany
 * Victor Hugo, Les Châtiments, France
 * Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Kalevipoeg, Estonia (suppressed due to censorship)

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 28 (O.S. January 16) – Vladimir Solovyov, Russian philosopher and poet (died 1900)
 * February 18 – Ernest Fenollosa, American (died 1908)
 * October 4 – Jane Maria Read, American poet and teacher (year of death unknown)

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February 3 – August Kopisch, German poet and painter (born 1799)
 * April 28 – Ludwig Tieck, German (born 1773)
 * October 27 – Maria White Lowell, American (born 1821)
 * December 2 – Amelia Opie, English novelist, writer and poet (born 1769)
 * Dayaram, Indian, Gujarati-language poet (born 1757)