1844 in poetry
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Works published in English
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Isabella Banks, Ivy Leaves, including "Neglected Wife"
- William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
- Frances Browne, The Star of Atteghei; The Vision of Schwartz, and Other Poems
- Elizabeth Barrett, Poems, including "A Drama of Exile" and ballads
- Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, The Two Destinies
- Frederick William Faber, Sir Lancelot
- Leigh Hunt, What is Poetry?, critical essay
- Monckton Milnes, Palm Leaves
- Coventry Patmore, Poems
United States">American poetry">United States
- James Freeman Clarke, Hymn Book for the Church of the Disciples
- Christopher Pearse Cranch, Poems
- Samuel Henry Dickson, Poems, including his popular "I Sigh for the Land of the Cypress and Pine"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet an essay of literary criticism in Essays, Second Series
- Rufus Wilmot Griswold, The Poets and Poetry of England in the Nineteenth Century, anthology
- Charles Fenno Hoffman, The Echo
- William H. C. Hosmer, Yonnonidio, or Wariors of the Genesee
- Sarah Anna Lewis, Records of the Heart
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, editor, Poets and Poetry of Europe, anthology
- James Russell Lowell, Poems
- Epes Sargent, The Light of the Lighthouse and Other Poems
- Lydia Maria Child, Flowers for Children, Volume 2, including "Over the River and Through the Woods", which was later set to music
- Bayard Taylor, Ximena; or, The Battle of the Sierra Morena and Other Poems
Works published in other languages
- Aleardo Aleardi, l' Arnalda di Roca, Italy
- Heinrich Heine, German poet and author living in France:
- * Neue Gedichte
- * Deutschland Ein Wintermarchen, long narrative poem on political and topics
- Frederik Paludan-Müller, Denmark:
- * Dryadens bryllup
- * Tithon
- * Abels Død
- Henrik Wergeland, Norway:
- * Den Engelske Lods
- * Jødinden
Births
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- February 8 - Richard Watson Gilder, American poet and editor
- March 14 - Arthur O'Shaughnessy, English poet and herpetologist
- March 30 - Paul Verlaine, French Symbolistt poet
- March 31 - Andrew Lang, Scottish writer
- June 28 - John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish-born American poet, journalist and fiction writer
- July 28 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet and Jesuit priest
- October 12 - George Washington Cable, American novelist
- October 13 - Ernest Myers, English poet and classicist
- October 23 - Robert Bridges, English Poet Laureate
- November 21 - Ada Cambridge, English writer and poet living in Australia after 1870
- Date not known:
- * Caroline Lindsay, English
- * Ismail Merathi, Indian
- * Venmani Mahan Namboodiri, Indian, Malayalam-language poet associated with the Venmani School of poetry
- * Arabella Eugenia Smith, American
Deaths
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