Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Henri Beauclair and Gabriel Vicaire, using the pseudonym Adoré Floupette, publish Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette, a parodic collection of poems satirising French symbolism and the Decadent movement.
Frederick George Scott, Justin and Other Poems. Published at author's expense.
Robert Bridges, Eros and Psyche
C. S. Calverley, Literary Remains, posthumously published
Jean Ingelow, Poems: Third Series (see also Poems 1863, Poems 1880)
William Morris, Chants for Socialists
Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Marino Faliero
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Tiresias, and Other Poems, including "Balin and Balan", one of the Idylls of the King 1870; "The Last Tournament" 1871; Gareth and Lynette 1872, Idylls of the King 1889
Katharine Tynan, Louise de la Valliere, and Other Poems
Charles Follen Adams, Mother's Doughnuts
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poems
Will Carleton, City Ballads
William Ellery Channing, Eliot
Paul Hamilton Hayne, The Broken Battalions
Oliver Wendell Holmes:
Ralph Waldo Emerson, nonfiction
Illustrated Poems
Toru Dutt, Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan Indian writing in English
Catulle Mendès, Soirs moroses, Contes épiques, Philoméla, etc; Poésies, in seven volumes; France
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 6 – Humbert Wolfe (died 1940), English poet, writer and civil servant
January 20 – Ozaki Hōsai 尾崎 放哉 pen name of Ozaki Hideo (died 1926), Japanese, late Meiji period and Taishō period poet
January 25 – Hakushū Kitahara 北原 白秋, pen-name of Kitahara Ryūkichi 北原 隆吉 (died 1942), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period tanka poet
April 21 – Mitsuko Shiga 四賀光子, pen-name of Mitsu Ota (died 1956), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period tanka poet, a woman
April 26 – Dakotsu Iida 飯田 蛇笏, commonly referred to as "Dakotsu", pen names of Takeji Iida 飯田 武治 (died 1962), Japanese, haiku poet; trained under Takahama Kyoshi
April 29 – Andrew Young (died 1971), Scottish-born poet and clergyman
May 12 – Saneatsu Mushanokōji 武者小路 実篤 實篤, sometimes known as "Mushakōji Saneatsu"; other pen-names included "Musha" and "Futo-o" (died 1976), Japanese, late Taishō period and Showa period novelist, playwright, poet, artist and philosopher
May 13 – Hideo Nagata 長田秀雄 (died 1949), Japanese, Showa period poet, playwright and screenwriter
July 1 – Dorothea Mackellar (died 1968), Australian poet and fiction writer
August 18 – Nettie Palmer (died 1964), Australian poet, essayist and Australia's leading literary critic; wife of Vance Palmer
August 24 – Bokusui Wakayama, 若山 牧水 (died 1928), Japanese "Naturalist" tanka poet
August 28 – Vance Palmer, (died 1959), Australian novelist, dramatist, essayist and critic; husband of Nettie Palmer
September 3 – Ghulam AhmadMahjur (died 1952), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
September 11 – D. H. Lawrence (died 1930), English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic
October 30 – Ezra Pound, poet (died 1972), American poet and editor
December 19 – F. S. Flint (died 1960), English poet, translator and prominent member of the Imagist group
Also:
Govindagraj, also known as "Ram Ganes" Gadkari (died 1919), Indian, Marathi-language poet, playwright and humorist
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
May 22 – Victor Hugo, French
April 8 – Susanna Moodie (born 1803), Canada
April 30 – Jens Peter Jacobsen (born 1847), Danish novelist and poet
July 5 – Charles Whitehead (born 1804), English poet, novelist and playwright
July 15 – Rosalía de Castro (born 1837), Spanish Galician poet and writer
August 11 – Monckton Milnes
August 12 – Helen Hunt Jackson (born 1830), American writer, novelist and poet
September 24 – George Frederick Cameron (born 1854 in poetry), Canadian poet and journalist
