1851 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
June - While waiting to cross the English Channel on honeymoon, English poet Matthew Arnold probably begins to compose the poem "Dover Beach".Works published in English
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- Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Poems Posthumous and Collected
- Edward Henry Bickersteth, Nineveh
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Casa Guidi Windows
- Caroline Clive, under the pen name "V", The Valley of the Rea
- Hartley Coleridge, Poems by Hartley Coleridge, edited by Derwent Coleridge
- George Meredith, Poems, including the first version of "Love in the Valley"
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- Thomas Holley Chivers, Eonchs of Ruby: A Gift of Love
- Theodore Sedgwick Fay, Ulric; or, The Voices
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Legend
- William Wilberforce Lord, Christ in Hades
- Henry Theodore Tuckerman, Poems
- Frances Fuller Victor, with Metta Victoria Victor, Poems of Sentiment and Imagination
- William Ross Wallace, ''Meditations in America, and Other Poems''
Works published in other languages
- Hilario Ascasubi, Santos Vega o los mellizos de la Flor, Spanish-language, Argentina
- Heinrich Heine, Romanzero, Germany
- Micah Joseph Lebensohn, Shire Bat Ẓiyyon, Hebrew-language, Lithuania
Births
Dath years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- March 1 - Arthur Clement Hilton, English
- May 8 - James Lister Cuthbertson, Australian
- December 18 - John Farrell, Australian
- December 20 - Thérèse Schwartze, Dutch portrait painter and poet
- Date not known - Albery Allson Whitman, African American
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- February 1 - Mary Shelley, English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer and poet
- February 23 - Joanna Baillie, Scottish poet and dramatist
- July 6 - David Macbeth Moir, Scottish physician and writer
- October 31 - Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Serbian poet and Prince-Bishop of Montenegro
- December 19 - Henry Luttrell, English politician, wit and writer of society verse