Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
H.C. Beeching and J.W. Mackail led a group of seven Balliol College Oxford members in publishing The Masque of B-ll—l, which is immediately suppressed by authorities
Robert Bridges, Poems (see also Poems 1873, 1879)
Robert Browning, Dramatic Idyls, second series (see also Dramatic Idyls 1879)
Jean Ingelow, Poems, Volume 1 is a reprint the 23rd edition of Poems (1863); Volume 2 is a reprint from the sixth edition of A Story of Doom (1867); (see also Poems: Third Series 1885)
Andrew Lang, XXII Ballades in Blue China
William McGonagall, "The Tay Bridge Disaster"
Emily Pfeiffer, Sonnets and Songs
Algernon Charles Swinburne:
The Heptalogia; or, The Seven Against Sense, parodies of seven contemporary poets: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Browning, Coventry Patmore, Robert Lord Lytton, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Swinburne himself
Songs of the Springtides
Studies in Song
John Addington Symonds, New and Old
James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, and Other Poems, the title poem was first published in the National Reformer, March 22–May 17, 1874
William Watson, The Prince's Quest, and Other Poems
Bret Harte, Poetical Works
Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Iron Gate and Other Poems
Sidney Lanier, The Science of English Verse, scholarship, United States
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ultima Thule, United States
Richard Henry Stoddard, Poems
Rosario de Acuña, Morirse a tiempo, Spain
Rosalia de Castro, Follas novas, Galician poems written in Spain
Henry Kendall, Songs from the Mountains, Australia
Charles G.D. Roberts, Orion and Other Poems, Canada. Published at author's expense.
Paul Verlaine, Sagesse, France
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 14 – Joseph Warren Beach (died 1957), American poet, critic and literary scholar
February 27 – Angelina Weld Grimke (died 1958), African American lesbian journalist and poet
August 12 – Radclyffe Hall (died 1943), English lesbian poet and novelist
August 24 – Bahinabai Chaudhari बहिणाबाई चौधरी (died 1951), illiterate, Indian, Marathi-language poet whose son writes down her poems
August 26 – Guillaume Apollinaire (died 1918), French poet, writer and art critic
September 16 – Alfred Noyes (died 1958), English poet, best known for his ballads "The Highwayman" (1906) and "The Barrel Organ"
November 30 – Grant Hervey, born George Henry Cochrane (died 1933), Australian versifier and swindler
December 2 – Elizabeth Rebecca Ward, née Daniels (died 1978), English versifier
December 28 – C. Louis Leipoldt (died 1947), South African Afrikaans poet, writer and pediatrician
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
May 8 – Jones Very (born 1813), American essayist, poet, clergyman, and mystic associated with the American Transcendentalism movement
June 20 – Eliza Dunlop (born 1796), Australian lyricist and ethnographer
July 7 – Lydia Maria Child, 78 (born 1802), American abolitionist, Indian and women's rights activist, opponent of American expansionism, novelist, journalist and poet
November 6 – Estanislao del Campo (born 1834), Argentine
December 22 – George Eliot, pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, 61 (born 1819), English novelist and poet
December 30 – Epes Sargent (born 1813), American editor, poet and playwright