1840 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). The Percy Society is established in Britain to publish scholarly editions of early ballads, poems and other works in English. Thomas Aird, Orthuriel, and Other Poems Matthew Arnold, Alaric at Rome Robert Browning, Sordello Caroline Clive, under the pen name "V", IX Poems by 'V''' Thomas De Quincey, Recollections of the Lake Poets, final two essays on the Lake Poets published in Tait's E
1844 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1857 in poetryNationality 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I of Austria to his country, János Arany instead produces the subversive ballad The Bards of Wales (A walesi bárdok), unpublished until 1863.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.
1916 in poetry—Closing lines of "Easter, 1916" by W. B. Yeats Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 5 – Cabaret Voltaire is opened by German performance poet Hugo Ball and his future wife Emmy Hennings in the back room of Ephraim Jan's Holländische Meierei in Zürich, Switzerland; although surviving only until the summer it is pivotal in the creation of the Dada movement in art, poetry and literature.
