Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
February 18 – English Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins takes up a post as professor of Greek and Latin at University College Dublin in Ireland, where he will remain until his death in 1889 and write his "terrible sonnets".
Isabella Valancy Crawford, Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and Other Poems''. Published at author's expense.
James McIntyre. Musings on the Banks of the Canadian Thames. London, ON.
Francis Adams, Henry and Other Tales
Robert Browning, Ferishtah's Fancies
Andrew Lang, Rhymes à la Mode
Amy Levy, A Minor Poet, and Other Verse
Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Midsummer Holiday, and Other Poems
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Mercedes and Later Lyrics
Louise Imogen Guiney, Songs at the Start
Sidney Lanier, Poems, published posthumously
Joaquin Miller, Memorie and Rime
Edmund Clarence Stedman, Songs and Ballads
Henry Timrod, Katie
Rosario de Acuña, Sentir y pensar, Spain
Rosalia de Castro, En las orillas del Sar, Galician Spanish poet, writing in Spanish
Lie Kim Hok, Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari, ethnic Chinese poet, writing in Malay
Rabindranath Tagore, Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali, Indian poet, writing in Braj Bhasha
Awards and honors
English poet Alfred Tennyson is created 1st Baron Tennyson of Aldworth in the County of Sussex and of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, hereafter being known as Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 14 – Kostas Varnalis (Κώστας Βάρναλης), (died 1974), Greek
March 28 – Angelos Sikelianos (Άγγελος Σικελιανός) (died 1951), Greek poet and playwright
April 2 - John Collings Squire (died 1958), English poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor of the post-World War I period
June 29 - Francis Brett Young (died 1954), English novelist and poet
July 24 - Donald Evans (died 1921), American poet, publisher, music critic and journalist
July 29 - Eunice Tietjens (died 1944), American poet, novelist, journalist, children's author, lecturer, and editor
August 8 - Sara Teasdale (died 1933), American lyric poet
November 5 - James Elroy Flecker (died 1915), English poet, novelist and playwright
December 31 - George Sylvester Viereck (died 1962), German-American poet, writer and propagandist
Date not known - Leknath Ponday, Indian, Nepali-language poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 7 – John Harris (born 1820), English poet
February 17 – Charles Stuart Calverley, 82 (born 1831), English poet and wit
February 28 – Matsudaira Teru 松平照 also called "Teruhime" 照姫, literally translated, "Princess Teru" (born 1832), Japanese, late Edo and early Meiji period aristocrat and skilled waka poet who instructed Matsudaira Katamori in poetry and calligraphy
March 19 – Elias Lönnrot, 81, Finnish philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry best known for composing the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic compiled from national folklore
June 27 – Andreas Munch, 72 (born 1811), Norwegian poet
