1844 in 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 • Monckton Milnes, Palm Leaves • Coventry Patmore, Poems • James Freeman Clarke, Hymn Book for the Church of the Disciples (expanded edition, 1852) • Christopher Pearse Cranch, Poems • 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 • 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'' ("Rock of Arnalda"), Italy • Heinrich Heine, German poet and author living in France: • Neue Gedichte ("New Poems") • Deutschland Ein Wintermarchen, long narrative poem on political and topics • Frederik Paludan-Müller, Denmark: • Dryadens bryllup ("The Dryad's Wedding") • Tithon ("Tithonus") • Abels Død ("The Death of Abel") • Henrik Wergeland, Norway: • Den Engelske Lods ("The English Pilot") • Jødinden ("The Jewess") ==Births==

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • February 8 – Richard Watson Gilder (died 1909), American poet and editor • March 14 – Arthur O'Shaughnessy (died 1881), English poet and herpetologist • March 30 – Paul Verlaine (died 1896), French Symbolistt poet • March 31 – Andrew Lang (died 1912), Scottish writer • June 28 – John Boyle O'Reilly (died 1890), Irish-born American poet, journalist and fiction writer • July 21 – Matilda Maranda Crawford (died 1920), American-Canadian poet, writer, correspondent • July 28 – Gerard Manley Hopkins (died 1889), English poet and Jesuit priest • October 12 – George Washington Cable (died 1925), American novelist • October 13 – Ernest Myers (died 1921), English poet and classicist • October 23 • Robert Bridges (died 1939), English Poet Laureate • Laura Rosamond White (died 1922), American poet, author, and editor • November 12 – Ismail Merathi (died 1917), Indian poet from Mughal and British era • November 21 – Ada Cambridge (died 1926), English writer and poet living in Australia after 1870 • Date not known: • Caroline Lindsay (died 1921), English • Venmani Mahan Namboodiri (died 1893), Indian, Malayalam-language poet associated with the Venmani School of poetry • Arabella Eugenia Smith (died 1916), American ==Deaths==

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • March 6 – Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, (born 1803), American poet and teacher • June 15 – Thomas Campbell (born 1777), Scottish poet especially of sentimental poetry dealing with human affairs • November 21 – Ivan Krylov (1769), Russian fabulist • Date not known – Margaret Miller Davidson, senior (born 1787), American novelist, mother of poets Lucretia Maria Davidson, Margaret Miller Davidson and Levi P. Davidson ==See also==