1849 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January - "What is Poetry? And What Is It Good For?" essay by John Neal published in Sartain's Union Magazine November 14 - A public festival is held in Denmark to celebrate the 70th birthday of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger La Tribune des Peuples, a pan-European romantic nationalist periodical, is published between March and November by Adam Mickiewicz. Cecil Frances Alexander, Moral Songs Matthew Arnold, writing under the pen name "A", The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, and Other Poems Robert Browning, Poems, his first collected edition Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, King Arthur, first published in three parts, 1848–1849 Edward Caswall, Lyra Catholica A. H. Clough, Ambarvalia Robert Southey, all posthumously published: Southey's Common-place Book: First Series, and Second Series (each series in a separate volume), edited by John Wood Warter, poetry and prose The Life and Correspondence of the Late Robert Southey, edited by Cuthbert Southey, biography Isaac Williams, The Christian Scholar William Ellery Channing, The Woodman James T. Fields, Poems, Boston: William D. Ticknor and Company Caroline Howard Gilman, Verses of a Life-time Henry Beck Hirst, The Penance of Roland Oliver Wendell Holmes, Poems Richard Henry Stoddard, Foot-Prints Alfred Billings Street, Frontenac Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Songes, Sweden Petrus Augustus de Genestet, De Sint-Nicolaasavond ("Saint Nicholas's Eve"), Netherlands Micah Joseph Lebensohn, Harisut Troya, translation of Virgil's Aeneid after Schiller, Lithuania, Hebrew language Elias Lönnrot, comp., Kalevala, new version, Finland Fazal Shah Sayyad, Sohni Mahiwal, India, Punjabi language Christian Winther, Til Een ("To Someone"), Denmark Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: July 22 - Emma Lazarus (died 1887), American July 30 - Lettie S.