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

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William Barnes:
- Hwomely Rhymes (see also 1844, 1862, 1868)^[1]
- The Song of Solomon in the Dorset Dialect^[1]
Edmund Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (revised in 1868, 1872, 1879 [with the Salaman and Absal of Jami — see 1856])^[1]
Louisa Shore and Arabella Shore, written anonymously, Gemma of the Isles^[1]
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King including "Enid," "Vivien," "Elaine," and "Guinevere" (see also The Holy Grail 1869, Idylls of the King 1870, Gareth and Lynette 1872, "Balin and Balan" in Tiresias 1885, Idylls of the King 1889)^[1]

William Kirby, The U.E.: A Tale of Upper Canada, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada^[2]

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

February 25 – James Kenneth Stephen (died 1892), English poet and tutor to Prince Albert, son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
March 26 – A. E. Housman (died 1936), English classical scholar and poet
July 17 – Ernest Rhys (died 1946), English writer, essayist, poet, novelist, playwright and short-story writer best known as founding editor of Everyman's Library series of affordable classics
August 12 – Katharine Lee Bates (died 1929), American poet best known as the author of the words to the anthem "America the Beautiful"; her poem Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride (1889) popularized "Mrs. Santa Claus"
November 4 – Perceval Gibbon (died 1926), South African poet, short-story writer, author and journalist
December 16 – Francis Thompson (died 1907) English poet

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

January 23 – Bettina von Arnim (born 1785), German writer, poet, composer and novelist
January 23 – Iswarchandra Gupta (born 1811), Bengali poet and writer
February 13 – Eliza Acton (born 1799), English poet and cook who produced one of the country's first cookbooks aimed at the domestic reader rather than the professional
March 30 – James Mathews Legaré
April 3 – Reginald Heber – (born 1783, Church of England bishop, poet and hymn writer
April 14 – Lady Morgan, née Sydney Owenson, (born about 1776), Irish novelist and poet
August 28 – Leigh Hunt (born 1784), English critic, essayist, poet and writer
November 28 – Washington Irving (born 1783) American author, essayist, biographer, historian and poet
December 28 – Thomas Babington Macaulay (born 1800)British poet, historian and Whig politician from Scotland

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ Bentley, D. M. R., "Poetry in English", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
^ Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009
^ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008