1826 in poetry
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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.
Works published
United Kingdom">English poetry">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
- 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">American poetry">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" ; 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, Osman, an epic, first published, describes the 1621 Polish victory over the Turks at Chocim, Croatia
- Wilhelm Hauff, editor, contributor, Kriegs- und Volks-Lieder, anthology of poetry, including two of his own folk songs, "Reiters Morgengesang" and "Soldatenliebe", Germany
- Heinrich Heine, Germany
- * Die Heimkehr
- * Die Nordsee
- 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, France
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- February 27 – Cynthia Roberts Gorton, American poet and author
- March 12 – Robert Lowry, American hymnodist
- April 20 – Dinah Craik, English novelist and poet
- July 4 – Stephen Foster, American songwriter
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- April 3 - Reginald Heber, Church of England bishop, remembered chiefly as a hymn-writer
- June 23 - John Taylor, English businessman, poet and hymn-writer
- June 27 - Mary Leadbeater, Irish poet and writer
- July 25 - Kondraty Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary, hanged
- October 3 - Jens Baggesen, Danish
- December 26 - Schack von Staffeldt, Danish poet and Amtmann
- December 31 - William Gifford, English satiric poet and literary editor
- William Glen, Scottish