1841 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January – Elizabeth Barrett Browning is given her golden cocker spaniel "Flush" by writer Mary Russell Mitford. July 20 – English "peasant poet" absconds from an asylum for the insane at High Beach in Essex and walks 90 miles (140 km) to his home at Northborough in the east midlands. In late December he is admitted to Northampton General Lunatic Asylum where he will spend the remaining 23 years of his life. Victor Hugo is elected to the Académie Française, on his fifth attempt. Sarah Fuller Adams, Vivia Perpetua: A dramatic poem Robert Browning, Pippa Passes, verse drama W. J. Fox, Hymns and Anthems, 150 numbered hymns without music, 13 by Sarah Fuller Adams, including "Nearer, my God, to thee"; anthology Thomas Moore, The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, in 10 volumes, published starting in 1840 and ending this year; Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Samuel Laman Blanchard Life and Literary Remains of L. E. L.