Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
June – Rev. John Henry Newman writes "The Pillar of Cloud" (Lead, Kindly Light) on a boat in the Strait of Bonifacio.
15 September – English poet Arthur Henry Hallam, a friend of Tennyson (and fiancé of his sister Emily), dies suddenly of a brain haemorrhage in Vienna aged 22. This year in his memory Tennyson writes "Ulysses" (completed 20 October; published in Poems of 1842), Tithon (an early version of "Tithonus") and "The Two Voices" (originally entitled "Thoughts of a Suicide") and begins "Morte d'Arthur" (published 1842) and "Tiresias" (published 1885). In 1850 he will publish In Memoriam A.H.H.
Elizabeth Barrett (later Elizabeth Barrett Browning), anonymously published translation from the Ancient Greek of Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
Edward Bickersteth, Christian Psalmody
Caroline Bowles (later Caroline Anne Southey), Tales of the Factories
Robert Browning, Pauline, a fragment of a confession, the author's first published poem, published anonymously, sells no copies (first reprinted in Poetical Works 1868 with minor revisions and an "apologetic preface")
Agnes Bulmer, Messiah's Kingdom, epic poem running to 14,000 lines, considered the longest poem ever written by a woman
Hartley Coleridge, Poems
Allan Cunningham, The Maid of Elvar
Ebenezer Elliott, The Splendid Village; Corn Law Rhymes, and Other Poems
Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Hymns on the Works of Nature
John Stuart Mill, Thoughts on Poetry and its Variants (criticism)
Robert Montgomery, Woman: The Angel of Life
Sir Walter Scott (died 1832), The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, the final revised edition, edited by J. G. Lockhart and illustrated by J. M. W. Turner; in 12 volumes, published starting in May of this year, with Volume I, and ending in April 1834, with Volume XII
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing under the pen name "L.E.L.