1825 in poetry

Events

• La bibliothèque canadienne, a French Canadian magazine edited by Michel Bibaud, begins publishing this year
• Dalry Burns Club established to honour the memory of Scottish poet Robert Burns; it claims the longest unbroken record of Burns suppers.

  Poetry published

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• Anna Laetitia Barbauld, The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, edited by Lucy Aikin
• Sara Coleridge, translator from the French of Jacques de Mailles, The History of the Chevalier Bayard
• Louisa Costello, Songs of a Stranger
• Allan Cunningham, editor, The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern, anthology
• Robert Davidson, Poems, Scotland
• Charles Dibdin the younger, Comic Tales and Lyrical Fancies
• Alexander Dyce, editor, Specimens of British Poetesses, anthology
• Felicia Dorothea Hemans, The Forest Sanctuary, and Other Poems
• Thomas Hood and J. H. Reynolds, published anonymously, Odes and Addresses to Great People
• Leigh Hunt, Bacchus in Tuscany, translated from the Italian, Bacco in Tuscana by Francesco Redi
• William Knox, Harp of Zion, Scotland
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing under the pen name "L. E. L.", The Troubador, Catalogue of Pictures, and Historical Sketches
• Robert Southey, A Tale of Paraguay
• William Wordsworth, Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems

  United States">American poetry">United States

• John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, Occasional Pieces of Poetry, a well-received collection partly reprinting poems the author had contributed to the Connecticut Mirror, which he edited from 1822 to 1827
• William Cullen Bryant:
• * Lectures on Poetry, a series of four lectures given at the New York Athenaeum, presenting his theory of poetry, influenced by English Romantic poets; he also objected to the ideas that America lacked poetic material, that the country's language was too primitive for poetry and that American society was too pragmatic and materialistic to support a national poetry
• * A Forest Hymn
• * The Death of the Flowers
• Charles Follen, Hymns for Children
• Fitz-Greene Halleck, "Marco Bozzaris", inspired by the death of Bozarris, a Greek hero in the war of independence against the Ottoman Empire; the work appeared in several periodicals and was praised, although Edgar Allan Poe criticized it as lacking in lyricism
• William Leggett, Leisure Hours at Sea
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poems published in several newspapers and the United States Literary Gazette include: "Autumnal Nightfall", "Woods in Winter", "The Angler's Song", and "Hymn of the Moravian Nuns"
• Edward Coote Pinkney, Poems, lyric verses including "Rudolph, a Fragment" ), in the style of Lord Byron
• William Gilmore Simms, Monody on Gen. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charleston

  Other

• Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Elégies et Poésies nouvelles, France
• Adam Mickiewicz, Crimean Sonnets, Poland
• Kondraty Ryleyev, Rogneda, Russia, approximate date

  Births

• January 11 - Bayard Taylor, American poet and travel writer
• May 4 - Thomas Henry Huxley, English evolutionist and occasional poet
• June 6 - Peter John Allan, Canadian poet
• July 20 or 25 - John Askham, English shoemaker and poet
• September 24 - Frances Harper, born Frances Ellen Watkins, black American poet and abolitionist
• October 30 - Adelaide Anne Procter, English poet and philanthropist
• Dhiro, Gujarati devotional poet

  Deaths

• March 9 - Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet
• May 6 - Lady Anne Barnard, Scottish-born ballad and travel writer
• August 12 - Magdalene Sophie Buchholm, Norwegian poet
• August 27 - Lucretia Maria Davidson, American poet, of consumption
• November 12 - William Knox, Scottish poet, of a stroke
• December 5 - Mary Whateley, English poet and hymnodist