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6 November – The burial of Czech romantic poet Karel Hynek Mácha (in a pauper's grave) takes place on what should have been the day of his wedding to Eleonora Šomková, about a month after the birth of their child. Mácha had overexerted himself in helping put out a fire and died the previous day in Litoměřice just before his 26th birthday.
The literary, social and political quarterly Sovremennik (Современник, literally The Contemporary), edited by Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, begins publication in Saint Petersburg. It publishes Fyodor Tyutchev's poetry and the fourth issue contains Pushkin's historical novel The Captain's Daughter.
Bernard Barton and Lucy Barton, The Reliquary
Robert Browning, "Porphyria's Lover", as "Porphyria" in January issue of Monthly Repository
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing under the pen name "L.E.L.", Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, dated 1837
Walter Savage Landor, A Satire on Satirists, and Admonition to Detractors
Francis Sylvester Mahony, The Reliques of Father Prout, Irish poet
Caroline Norton, A Voice from the Factories
Catherine Eliza Richardson Grandmamma's Sampler; with Some Other Rhymes for Children
William Wordsworth, The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, published in six volumes from this year to 1837 (a revised text from Poetical Works 1827; new edition with corrections published in 1839; see also Miscellaneous Poems 1820, Poetical Works 1840, Poems 1845, Poetical Works (Centenary Edition) 1870)
Lyra Apostolica, religious poetry anthology, including verse by John Henry Newman
Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Poetical Works, anti-slavery and descriptive poems, including "The Captured Slave" and "The Sunset Hour"; published posthumously
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.