1851 in poetry

Events

June – While waiting to cross the English Channel on honeymoon, English poet Matthew Arnold probably begins to compose the poem "Dover Beach" (published 1867).

Works published in English

[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]

• 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 (posthumous)
• George Meredith, Poems, including the first version of "Love in the Valley"

[[American poetry|United States]]

• Thomas Holley Chivers, Eonchs of Ruby: A Gift of Love
• Theodore Sedgwick Fay, Ulric; or, The Voices
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Legend (republished under the title Christius 1872)
• 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 "[year] in poetry" article:

• March 1 – Arthur Clement Hilton (died 1877), English
• May 8 – James Lister Cuthbertson (died 1910), Australian
• December 18 – John Farrell (died 1904), Australian
• December 20 – Thérèse Schwartze (died 1918), Dutch portrait painter and poet
• Date not known – Albery Allson Whitman (died 1901), African American

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• February 1 – Mary Shelley (born 1797), English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer and poet
• February 23 – Joanna Baillie (born 1762), Scottish poet and dramatist
• July 6 – David Macbeth Moir (born 1798), Scottish physician and writer
• October 31 (October 19 O.S.) – Petar II Petrović-Njegoš (born 1813), Serbian poet and Prince-Bishop of Montenegro
• December 19 – Henry Luttrell (born 1768), English politician, wit and writer of society verse

Notes

References

1. (1965). "The Poems of Matthew Arnold". Longman Norton.
2. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
3. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
4. Henderson, Helene, and Jay P. Pederson, editors, ''Twentieth-Century Literary Movements Dictionary'', Detroit: Omnigraphics Inc., 2000