Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Alfred Austin, Interludes
Robert Browning, Fifine at the Fair
C. S. Calverley, published anonymously, Fly Leaves
Samuel Ferguson, Congal
W. S. Gilbert, More "Bab" Balads (see also "Bab" Ballads 1869)
Edward Lear, More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc.
Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man
Christina Rossetti, Sing-Song, book of nursery rhymes
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette (see also Idylls of the King 1859, The Holy Grail 1869, Idylls of the King 1870, 1889, "The Last Tournament" 1871, "Balin and Balan" in Tiresias 1885),
Thomas Gold Appleton, Faded Leaves
Paul Hamilton Hayne, Legends and Lyrics
Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, a book that combines fiction and nonfiction prose, together with poetry
Albert Pike, Hymns to the Gods
Celia Thaxter, Poems
John Greenleaf Whittier, The Pennsylvania Pilgrim, United States
Alfred Domett, Ranolf and Amohia, epic poem in a Maori setting, New Zealand
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Three Books of Song
François Coppée:
Les Bijoux de la delivrance, short verse drama inspired by the Franco-Prussian War; France
Les Humbles
Victor Hugo, L'Année terrible, France
Catulle Mendès, La Part du roi, verse drama, a one-act comedy; France
Hilario Ascasubi, Obras completas ("Complete Works"), three volumes compiled by the author; Argentine author writing in Spanish
Girolamo de Rada, Skënderbeu i pafat, begins publication, Arbëresh
Holger Drachmann, Digte ("Poems"), Denmark
José Hernández, Martín Fierro, the first part of an epic Spanish-language Argentine poem in which the hero defends his way of life against encroaching socialization and civilization; an example of the Gaucho poetry literary movement in Argentina (see also second part 1879)
Michel Rodange, Renert odder de Fuuss am Frack an a Maansgréisst, Luxembourg
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 22 – John Shaw Neilson (died 1942), Australian
June 27 – Paul Laurence Dunbar (died 1906), African American
July 8 – Sasaki Nobutsuna 佐佐木信綱 (died 1963), Japanese, Showa period tanka poet and scholar of the Nara and Heian periods (surname: Sasaki)
August 15 – Sri Aurobindo (Bengali: শ্রী অরবিন্দ Sri Ôrobindo) (died 1950), Indian nationalist, poet, Yogi and spiritual Guru writing mostly in English
October 10 – Arthur Talmage Abernethy (died 1956), American poet, journalist, theologian and minister; North Carolina Poet Laureate 1948–1953
November 7 – Leonora Speyer (died 1956), American poet and violinist
November 30 – John McCrae (died on active service in World War I 1918), Canadian war poet, physician, author, artist and soldier best known for the poem "In Flanders Fields"
December 6 – Arthur Henry Adams (died 1936), Australian
Also:
Hafiz Ibrahim (died 1932), Egyptian poet called "the poet of the Nile"
Divakarla Tirupti Shastri (died 1920), Indian, Telugu-language poet; one of the two poets in the due known in Telugu literature as "Triupati Vankata Kavulu"
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 21 – Franz Grillparzer (born 1791), Austrian dramatic poet
March 20 – William Wentworth (born 1790), Australian
March 31 – Samuel Henry Dickson (born 1798), American poet, physician, writer and educator
September 2 – N. F. S. Grundtvig (born 1783), Danish
December 24 – William Rankine (born 1820), Scottish physicist and engineer
Also:
Henry Howard Brownell (born 1820), American poet and historian
