Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, First Series, including "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"
Robert Browning, Poetical Works: Fourth Edition
Robert Williams Buchanan, "The Session of the Poets," an attack on Algernon Charles Swinburne, published in The Spectator
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, children's novel, including the prefatory poem "All in the golden afternoon..." and a number of nonsense verses
Arthur Hugh Clough, Letters and Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough, including Dipsychus (see also Poems and Prose 1869), posthumously published
Samuel Ferguson, Lays of the Western Gael
Mary Wright Sewell, Mother's Last Words: a ballad
Algernon Charles Swinburne:
Atalanta in Calydon
Chastelard
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poems
Fitz-Greene Halleck, Young America: A Poem
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Humorous Poems
George Moses Horton, Naked Genius; this year, Horton, a slave, gains his liberty, publishes the book in Raleigh, North Carolina, and moves to Philadelphia
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
Translator, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, two volumes (Volume 2 in 1867)
Household Poems
James Russell Lowell, Ode Recited at the Commemoration of the Living and Dead Soldiers of Harvard University
John Godfrey Saxe, Clever Stories of Many Nations Rendered in Rhyme
Richard Henry Stoddard, Abraham Lincoln: An Horation Ode
Samuel Ward, Lyrical Recreations
Walt Whitman:
Drum-Taps, a collection of poems on the American Civil War, published in April
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, an elegy mourning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, along with 17 other poems, published in Sequel to Drum-Taps this Autumn
Charles Harpur, The Tower of a Dream, verse pamphlet, Australia
Charles Heavysege, Jephthah's Daughter, Canada
Giosuè Carducci, "Inno a Satana", Italy
Victor Hugo, Les Chansons des rues et des bois, France
Pamphile Lemay, Essais poétiques; French language; Canada
Uilleam Mac Dhun Lèibhe (William Livingston), Duain agus Orain, collection, Scottish Gaelic poet published in Scotland
Sully Prudhomme, Stances et poèmes, France
Rimes et Poësies Jersiaises, Jersey
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March – Edward Dyson (died 1931), Australian
March 20 – Arthur Bayldon (died 1958), Australian
March 23 – Madison Cawein (died 1914), American
March 27 – Marion Angus (died 1946), Scots language poet
April 9 – Adela Florence Nicolson, née Cory ("Lawrence Hope"; died 1904), English
May 2 – William Gay (died 1897), Scottish-born Australian
May 15 – Albert Verwey (died 1937), Dutch
May 20 – Henry Ernest Boote (died 1949), English-born Australian
June 13 – W. B. Yeats (died 1939), Irish poet and playwright
July 18 – Dowell O'Reilly (died 1923), Australian
July 21 (or 1868?) – Thomas William Hodgson Crosland (died 1924), English writer and poet
September 12 – Sophus Claussen (died 1931), Danish
September 21 – Francis Kenna (died 1932), Australian
December 30 – Rudyard Kipling (died 1936), Indian-born English novelist, writer and poet
Also:
Kunjikuttan Thampuran (died 1913), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
Samuel Williamson (died 1936), Australian
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
May 1 – Isaac Williams (born 1802), English writer, poet and clergyman
June 10 – Mrs. Lydia Sigourney, the "Sweet Singer of Hartford" (born 1791), American
August 4 – William Edmondstoune Aytoun (born 1813), Scottish lawyer and poet
September 29 – Richard Lower (born 1782), English dialect poet
November 9 – George Arnold (born 1834), American writer, poet and artist
