Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
June 8 – English poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins dies aged 54 in Dublin of typhoid; he is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery; most of his poetry remains unpublished until 1918.
December 12 – English poet Robert Browning dies aged 77 at Ca' Rezzonico in Venice on the same day his book Asolando; Fancies and facts is published; he is buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey; Alfred, Lord Tennyson will be buried adjacently.
William Wilfred Campbell, Lake lyrics and other poems (Saint John: J.& A. McMillan)
Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, Acadian Legends and Lyrics, Canada
Sophia Almon Hensley, Poems.
James McIntyre, Poems of James McIntyre.
Anthologies
Songs of the Great Dominion: Voices from the Forests and Waters, the Settlements and Cities of Canada. (London [England]: Walter Scott). 500-page anthology of Canadian poetry.
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, A New Pilgrimage, and Other Poems
Robert Bridges, The Feast of Bacchus
Thomas Edward Brown, The Manx Witch, and Other Poems
Robert Browning, Asolando; Fancies and facts
Amy Levy, A London Plane–Tree, and Other Verse
Walter Pater, Appreciations: With an Essay on Style, criticism
Emily Pfeiffer, Flowers of the Night
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads, Third Series (see also First Series 1866; Second Series 1878)
Arthur Symons, Days and Nights
Alfred Lord Tennyson:
Demeter and Other Poems
He writes "Crossing the Bar" in October as he crosses the Solent
Idylls of the King, complete edition of the Idylls, with final titles (see also Idylls of the King 1859, The Holy Grail 1869, Idylls of the King 1870, "The Last Tournament" 1871, Gareth and Lynette 1872, "Balin and Balan" in Tiresias 1885)
W.B. Yeats, The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, including "The Wanderings of Oisin", "The Song of the Happy Shepherd", "The Stolen Child", "Down By The Salley Gardens" (Kegan Paul, Trench & Company), Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Eugene Field, A Little Book of Western Verse, including "Little Boy Blue" and "Wynkyn, Blynkyn and Nod", United States
Louise Chandler Moulton, Poems
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, eighth edition
Giosuè Carducci, Barbarian Odes, Book 3, Italy
Holger Drachmann, Sangenes Bog ("Book of Songs"), Denmark
Herman Gorter, Mei ("May"), Netherlands
Banjo Paterson, "Clancy of the Overflow", Australia
Luigi Pirandello, Mal giocondo ("Playful Evil" or "Joyful Pain"), Italy
Govardhanram N. Tripathi, Lilavatijivankala, a tribute to his dead daughter, Indian, writing in Gujarati
Verner von Heidenstam, Vallfart och vandringsår ("Pilgrimage: the Wandering Years"), Sweden
W.B. Yeats, The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, including "The Wanderings of Oisin", "The Song of the Happy Shepherd", "The Stolen Child", "Down By The Salley Gardens" (Kegan Paul, Trench & Company) Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 3 (January 22 O.S.) – Artur Adson (died 1977), Estonian poet and critic
February 11 – Acharya Ramlochan Saran (died 1971), Indian, Maithili-language poet littérateur, grammarian, publisher and poet
March 1 – Okamoto Kanoko 岡本かの子, pen name of Ohnuki Kano (died 1939), Japanese, author, tanka poet, and Buddhist scholar in the Taishō and early Shōwa periods; mother of artist Tarō Okamoto
April 27 – Arnulf Øverland (died 1968), Norwegian
June 23 – Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova (died 1966), Russian
June 28 – Abbas Al Akkad عباس محمود العقاد (died 1964), Egyptian, Arabic-language writer and poet, a founder of the Divan school of poetry
July 30 – Dorothy Wellesley, born Dorothy Violet Ashton and styled Lady Gerald Wellesley between 1914 and 1943 (died 1956), English socialite, author, poet and literary editor
August 5 – Conrad Aiken (died 1973), American writer
August 19 – Arthur Waley (died 1966), English Orientalist
August 29 – (Doris) Capel Boake (died 1944), Australian writer
September 13 – Pierre Reverdy (died 1960), French
September 15 – Claude McKay (died 1948), Jamaican-born writer and poet of the Harlem Renaissance
October 31 – Napoleon Lapathiotis (died 1944), Greek
November 11 – Mantarō Kubota 久保田万太郎 (died 1963), Japanese author, playwright and poet (surname: Kubota)
December 8 – Hervey Allen (died 1949), American writer
Also:
Harley Matthews (died 1968), Australian
John Munro (Iain Rothach; killed in action 1918), Scottish Gaelic
V. C. Balakrishna Panikker (died 1915), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
Vasilis Rotas (died 1977), Greek
Fredegond Shove, née Maitland (died 1949), English
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 25 – Cornelius Mathews, 71 (born 1817), American poet
May 31 – Horatius Bonar, 80 (born 1808), Scottish hymnodist
June 8 – Gerard Manley Hopkins (born 1844), English poet
June 15 – Mihai Eminescu, 39 (born 1850), Romanian poet
September 10 – Amy Levy, 27 (born 1861), English poet and novelist, by suicide
September 18 – John Barr, 79 (born 1809), Scottish-born New Zealand poet
September 23 – Eliza Cook, 70 (born 1818), English poet
October 25 – Émile Augier, 69 (born 1820), French dramatist and poet
November 18 – William Allingham, 65 (born 1824) Irish-born poet
November 29 – Martin Farquhar Tupper, 79 (born 1810), English writer and poet
December 10 – Ludwig Anzengruber, 50 (born 1839), Austrian dramatist, novelist and poet
December 12 – Robert Browning (born 1812), English poet
