Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Commissioned with other Hungarian poets to write a poem of praise for a visit of Franz Joseph I of Austria to his country, János Arany instead produces the subversive ballad The Bards of Wales (A walesi bárdok), unpublished until 1863.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, dated this year but first published at the end of 1856
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, writing under the pen name "Owen Meredith", The Wanderer
Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Smith, Elder & Co., biography
Frederick Locker, London Lyrics (12 re-editions to 1893)
Denis MacCarthy, Underglimpses, and Other Poems
Theodore Martin, translated from Adam Oehlenschlager, Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Lamp
William Allen Butler, Nothing to Wear, published posthumously (first published anonymously in Harper's Weekly); the poem sold well, despite the financial panic; when a woman declared she was the author, the resulting controversy helped sales (see Mortimer Thomson's poem describing the controversy, below)
Paul Hamilton Hayne, Sonnets and Other Poems
Francis Scott Key, Poems
James Lawson, Poems
Alexander Beaufort Meek, Songs and Poems of the South
Mortimer Thomson, writing under the pen name "Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B." (Without the pen name's abbreviations: "Queer Kritter Philander Doesticks, Perfect Brick"), Nothing to Say: A Slight Slap at Mobocratic Snobbery, Which Has "Nothing to Do" with "Nothing to Wear" on the controversy over the authorship of William Allen Butler's poem Nothing to Wear; Thomson was offered a dollar a line for a poem on the subject, submitted an 800-line poem and was paid in full; illustrated by John McLenan; the book sold well
Richard Henry Stoddard, Songs of Summer
John Greenleaf Whittier:
The Sycamores
The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
Charles Heavysege, Saul: A Drama in Three Parts, first edition (second edition, 1869); Canada
James Lionel Michael, Songs without Music, lyrics, Australia
Théodore de Banville, Odes funambulesques, France
Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal ("Flowers of Evil"), France
Giosuè Carducci, Rime, Italy
Rosalia de Castro, La Flor, Galician Spanish poet, writing in Spanish
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Kalevipoeg, Estonia, revised version begins first publication
Jan Neruda, Hřbitovní kvítí ("Cemetery Flowers"), Czech
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 27 – Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux, née Robinson (died 1944), English-born poet and biographer
March 17 – Benjamin Franklin King, Jr.