1828 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.Events
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Edwin Atherstone, The Fall of Nineveh
- Laman Blanchard, Lyric Offerings
- William Lisle Bowles, Days Departed; or, Banwell Hill, a lay of the Severn Sea
- Mary Ann Browne, Ada, and Other Poems
- Thomas Campbell, The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge
- Felicia Hemans, Records of Women, with Other Poems
- John Gibson Lockhart, Life of Robert Burns, biography
- Robert Montgomery, The Omnipresence of the Deity
- Catherine Eliza Richardson, Poems
- Samuel Rogers, Italy: a Poem. Part the Second
- Joseph Blanco White, "Night and Death"
United States">American poetry">United States
- Carlos Wilcox, Ramains, 14 sermons and two poems, "The Age of Benevolence" and "The Religion of Taste"
- Catharine Read Arnold Williams, Original Poems on Various Subjects, United States
Other
- Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, The Fakeer of Jungheera: A Metrical Tale and Other Poems, Calcutta: Samuel Smith and Co.; India, Indian poetry in English
- Adam Mickiewicz, Konrad Wallenrod, a long narrative poem set in 14th-century Lithuania; Poland
- Gérard de Nerval, translator, Faust, translation into French from the original German of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's long poem; the work earned Nerval his reputation; it was praised by Goethe, and Hector Berlioz later used sections for his legend-symphony La Damnation de Faust
- Christian Winther, Traesnitt ; Denmark
Births
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- January 5 - Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶, Japanese poet and Buddhist priest known for his haiku poems and journals; widely regarded as one of the four haiku masters in Japan, along with Bashō, Buson and Shiki
- January 26 - Lady Caroline Lamb, English aristocrat, novelist and poet
- April 11 - Edward Coote Pinkney, English-born American poet, lawyer, sailor, professor and editor
- June 21 - Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet
- September 26 - John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, American lawyer, editor and poet
- date not known - Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins, English novelist and occasional poet
