1834 in poetry
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Works published
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- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poetical Works, including "On Quitting School"
- Sara Coleridge, Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children
- George Crabbe, The Poetical Works of George Crabbe
- Thomas De Quincey, Recollections of the Lake Poets, beginning this year, a series of essays published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine on the Lake Poets, including William Wordsworth and Robert Southey; this year, essays on Samuel Taylor Coleridge were published from September through November, with another in January 1835
- Charlotte Elliott, editor, The Invalid's Hymn Book
- A. H. Hallam, Remains in Verse and Prose, posthumously published, including a memoir by Henry Hallam
- R. S. Hawker, Records of the Western Shore
- Felicia Dorothea Hemans:
- * National Lyrics, and Songs for Music
- * Scenes and Hymns of Life
- Mary Howitt, The Seven Temptations
- Richard Monckton Milnes, Memorials of a Tour in Some Parts of Greece, Chiefly Poetical
- Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies
- Amelia Opie, Lays for the Dead
- Thomas Pringle, African Sketches
- Catherine Eliza Richardson Poems: Second Series
- Samuel Rogers, Poems
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, with the Life, unauthorized; parts were reissued this year as Posthumous Poems
- Henry Taylor, Philip van Artevelde
- Alfred Tennyson, "Morte d'Arthur", completed by October but not published until Poems 1842
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing under the pen name "L.E.L." Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835, including the Fairy of the Fountains
Other
- Thomas Holley Chivers, Conrad and Eudora; or, the Death of Alonzo, United States
- Frederik Paludan-Muller, Amor og Psyche, a verse drama, Denmark
- Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz, czyli ostatni zajazd na Litwie. Historia szlachecka z roku 1811 i 1812 we dwunastu księgach wierszem pisana, also known simply as "Pan Tadeusz", an epic poem in Polish, published in June in Paris
- France Prešeren, Sonnets of Unhappiness
- Cynthia Taggart, Poems, United States
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- 7 February - Estanislao del Campo, Argentine poet
- 24 March - William Morris, English poet and designer
- 27 March - Melissa Elizabeth Riddle Banta, American poet
- 5 May - Emily Rebecca Page, American poet and editor
- 24 June - George Arnold, American author and poet
- 9 July - Jan Neruda, Czech writer
- 27 August - Roden Noel, English poet
- 1 October - Mary Mackellar, née Cameron, Scottish Gaelic poet and translator
- 2 November - Harriet McEwen Kimball, American poet, hymnwriter, philanthropist
- 10 November - José Hernández, Argentine poet
- 23 November - James Thomson, Scottish poet publishing under the pen name "Bysshe Vanolis"
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- 17 February - John Thelwall, radical English orator, writer, elocutionist and poet
- 23 February - Karl Ludwig von Knebel, German poet and translator
- 25 July - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Romantic poet, critic and writer
- 5 December - Thomas Pringle, Scottish writer, poet and abolitionist
- 27 December - Charles Lamb, English, poet, playwright, critic and essayist