Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
William Allingham, The Fairies, including "Up the airy mountain ..."; reprinted from Poems 1850
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, The Wind and the Whirwind
Robert Bridges, Prometheus the Firegiver
Robert Browning, Jocoseria
George Meredith, Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth
Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Century of Roundels
Francis James Child, editor, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, an anthology published in five volumes from this year to 1898
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Decorative Plaques
Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus", written in aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for erection of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Michael Angelo, posthumously published
James Whitcomb Riley, The Old Swimmin'-Hole and 'Leven More Poems
John Greenleaf Whittier, The Bay of Seven Islands
Jones Very, Poems, published posthumously
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Poems of Passion
Gabriele D'Annunzio, L'intermezzo di rime, Italy
Victor Hugo, La Légende des siècles, third series (first series 1859, second series 1877), France
Jan Neruda, Prosté motivy, Czech
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, History of the Russian State from Gostomysl to Timashev, Russian parody published posthumously
Paul Verlaine, in November publishes an influential essay on Stéphane Mallarmé, which is later reprinted in the book Les Poetès maudits; France
Albert Verwey, Persephone, Netherlands
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 1 – Charles Badger Clark (died 1957), American
January 6 – Khalil Gibran (died 1931), Lebanese American poet and artist
February 7 – K. V. Simon, (died 1943), Indian Malayalam-language poet
February 18
Nikos Kazantzakis (died 1957), Greek author
Jessie Litchfield, (died 1956), Australian author
March 13 – Kōtarō Takamura 高村 光太郎 (died 1956), Japanese poet and sculptor; son of sculptor Kōun Takamura
March 16 – Ethel Anderson née Campbell (died 1958), English-born Australian
March 27 (March 15 O.S.) – Marie Under (died 1980), Estonian
May 7 – Anna Wickham, née Edith Alice Mary Harper, aka Edith Hepburn and John Oland (committed suicide 1947), English poet brought up in Australia
June 27 – Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy (died 1929), English Anglican priest and poet
August 11 – Ernst Stadler (killed 1914 in World War I), German Expressionist poet
September 16 – T. E. Hulme (killed 1917 in World War I), influential English poetry critic
September 17 – William Carlos Williams (died 1963), American
November 10 – Arthur Davison Ficke (died 1945), American
December 10 – Alfred Kreymborg (died 1966), American poet, novelist, playwright, literary editor and anthologist
December 12 – William Baylebridge (died 1942)), Australian poet and short-story writer
September 14 – Marjorie Pickthall (died 1922), English-born Canadian
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 5 – Charles Tompson (born 1806), Australian public servant said to be the first published Australian-born poet
June 14
Charles Timothy Brooks, 96, American poet and translator
Edward Fitzgerald, 74, English poet and translator, best known for his translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
George Moses Horton (born c. 1797), African-American
