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| 1850 |
| | | Alfred Tennyson's elegy for a friend, In Memoriam, captures perfectly the Victorian mood of heightened sensibility | |
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| 1854 |
| | | Within six weeks of the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimea, Tennyson publishes a poem finding heroism in the disaster | |
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| 1855 |
| | | The first edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass is published anonymously, at his own expense, and contains just 12 poems | |
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| 1855 |
| | | Longfellow publishes his American Indian epic, The Song of Hiawatha, in an irresistibly catchy metre | |
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| 1855 |
| | | Tennyson publishes a long narrative poem, Maud, a section of which ('Come into the garden, Maud') becomes famous as a song | |
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| 1857 |
| | | Charles Baudelaire publishes his first and extremely influential collection of poems, Les Fleurs du Mal | |
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| 1858 |
| | | Longfellow uses a romantic story of early New England for his narrative poem The Courtship of Miles Standish | |
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| 1859 |
| | | Tennyson publishes the first part of Idylls of the King, a series of linked poems about Britain's mythical king Arthur | |
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| 1859 |
| | | Edward FitzGerald publishes The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, romantic translations of the work of the Persian poet | |
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| 1861 |
| | | Longfellow's narrative poem Paul Revere's Ride dramatizes a turning point at the start of the American Revolution | |
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