1851 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June – While waiting to cross the English Channel on honeymoon, English poet Matthew Arnold probably begins to compose the poem "Dover Beach" (published 1867). 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" 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 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 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 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 Princ