1840 in poetry

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Thomas Aird, Orthuriel, and Other Poems^[1]
Matthew Arnold, Alaric at Rome^[1]
Robert Browning, Sordello^[1]
Caroline Clive, under the pen name "V", IX Poems by 'V'^[1]
Thomas De Quincey, Recollections of the Lake Poets, final two essays on the Lake Poets published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (first essay published in 1836; see also Recollections 1835, 1839):
- "Westmoreland and the Dalesmen," January
- "Society of the Lakes, I, II, and III," January, March, and June
Frederick William Faber, The Cherwell Water-Lily, and Other Poems^[1]
Thomas Moore, The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, in 10 volumes, published starting this year and ending in 1841;^[1] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Robert Owen, The Social Bible^[1]
Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Mary Shelley, Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments, including the essay "Defence of Poetry", posthumously published
William Wordsworth, The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, six volumes (see also reprint of 1842 with a seventh volume of additional poems; Miscellaneous Poems 1820; Poetical Works 1827; Poetical Works 1836; Poems 1845; Poetical Works 1857; Poetical Works, Centenary Edition, 1870)^[1]

Philip Pendleton Cooke, "Florence Vane", a popular ballad, often anthologized, written for the author's cousin; first published in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine at Edgar Allan Poe's request; United States^[2]
Mikhail Lermontov, The Novice, Russia
Thomas Moore, The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, in 10 volumes, published starting this year and ending in 1841;^[1] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 13 – Nicholas Flood Davin (died 1901), Irish-born Canadian lawyer, journalist, politician and poet
January 18 – Henry Austin Dobson (died 1921), English poet and essayist
March 5 – Constance Fenimore Woolson (died 1894), American novelist, short-story writer and poet; a grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper
March 18 – William Cosmo Monkhouse (died 1901), English poet and critic
June 2 – Thomas Hardy (died 1928, English author and poet
August 17 – Wilfred Scawen Blunt (died 1922), English poet and writer
October 5 – John Addington Symonds (died 1893), English poet and literary critic

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 9780618168217, retrieved via Google Books