1854 in poetry

Works published in English

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• William Allingham, Day and Night Songs
• W. E. Aytoun, writing under the pen name "T. Percy Jones", Firmilian; or, The Student of Badajoz, subtitle: "A Spasmodic tragedy"
• Thomas De Quincey, Selections Grave and Gay, including biographical essays on some of the Lake Poets
• Eliza Craven Green, "Ellan Vannin"
• John Keats, The Poetical Works of John Keats, edited by Richard Monckton Milnes; posthumously published
• Coventry Patmore, "The Angel in the House", Part I, also known as The Betrothal
• Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Charge of the Light Brigade" published in The Examiner on December 9

  United States">American poetry">United States

• Benjamin Paul Blood, The Bride of the Iconoclast
• William Cullen Bryant, Poems
• Phoebe Cary, Poems and Parodies
• William J. Grayson, The Hireling and the Slave
• William Howe Cuyler Hosmer, Poetical Works
• Julia Ward Howe, Passion Flowers

  Works published in other languages

France">French poetry">France

• Louise Colet:
• * Ce qu'on rêve en aimant
• * L'Acropole d'Athènes
• Gérard de Nerval, The Chimeras, poems appended to the author's book of short stories, Les Filles du feu
• Tiouttchev, Poésies

  Other

• Heinrich Heine, Gedichte. 1853 und 1854, German poet and author living in France

  Births

• January 9 – Govind Vasudev Kanitkar, Indian, Marathi-language poet and translator
• April 13 – William Henry Drummond, Canadian
• September 24 – George Frederick Cameron, Canadian
• October 16 – Oscar Wilde, Irish-born playwright and poet
• October 20
• * Alphonse Allais, French humorist
• * Arthur Rimbaud, French

  Deaths

• March 29 – Charlotte Caroline Richardson, English
• April 3 – John Wilson, Scots
• April 16 – Julia Nyberg, Swedish poet and songwriter
• April 24 – Gabriele Rossetti, English
• April 30 – James Montgomery, Scots
• December 9 – Almeida Garrett, Portuguese