Overview of the events of 1840 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1840 in poetry
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Births
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- 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
- February 2 – Griffith Williams (Gutyn Peris) (died 1838), Welsh poet
- 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 novelist and poet
- August 17 – Wilfred Scawen Blunt (died 1922), English poet and writer
- September 20 – Ellen Mary Clerke (died 1906), Irish author, journalist, poet and science writer
- October 5 – John Addington Symonds (died 1893), English poet and literary critic
Deaths
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