Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
William Butler Yeats founds the National Literary Society in Dublin.
A. C. Benson, Le Cahier Jaune
Wilfred Seawen Blunt, Esther, Love Lyrics, and Natalia's
Austin Dobson, The Ballad of Beau Brocade, and Other Poems of the XVIIIth Century
Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses, including "Gunga Din," "Danny Deever", "Fuzzy-Wuzzy", "Mandalay" and "Gentlemen-Rankers", first book publication, Methuen (see also Barrack-Room Balads, second series in 1896)
Richard Le Gallienne, English Poems
George Meredith:
Modern Love: Aa Reprint (see Modern Love, 1862)
Poems
John Gambril Nicholson, Love in Earnest: Sonnets, Ballades, and Lyrics
Arthur Symons, Silhouettes
Alfred Tennyson:
The Silent Voices
The Death of Oenone, Akbar's Dream, and Other Poems
William Watson, Lachrymae Musarum, and Other Poems, about the death of Tennyson
W. B. Yeats, The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, including "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (a poem first published in 1890) and the first version of the verse drama The Countess Cathleen, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Ambrose Bierce, Black Beetles in Amber, verse, nonfiction and drama
James Whitcomb Riley, Green Fields and Running Brooks
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, ninth edition
Frederick George Scott, Elton Hazlewood, Canada
Théodore de Banville, Dans la fournaise
Paul Claudel, La Ville, France
Francis Jammes, Vers, (also 1893 and 1894)
Stéphane Mallarmé, Vers et prose
Catulle Mendès, Les Poesies de Catulle Mendes, in three volumes
François Villon, first publication of Poems 7–11 of his "Ballades en jargon" in Oeuvres complëtes de François Villon, publiès díaprës les manuscrits et les plus anciennes Èditions, edited by Auguste Longnon, Paris: Lemerre, (Poems 1–6 were first published in 1489), posthumous
Stefan George, Algabal, illustrated by Melchior Lechter; limited, private edition; German
Verner von Heidenstam, Hans Alienus, Swedish
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 3 – J. R. R. Tolkien (died 1973), English fantasy novelist, poet, philologist and academic
January 8 – Horiguchi Daigaku 堀口 大学 (died 1981), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period poet and translator of French literature; member of the Shinshisha ("The New Poetry Society"); accompanies his father on overseas diplomatic postings (surname: Horiguchi)
January 30 – Caresse Crosby (died 1970), American poet, publisher, peace activist and socialite
January 31 – Ozaki Kihachi 尾崎喜八 (died 1974), Japanese, Showa period poet (surname: Ozaki)
February 22 – Edna St. Vincent Millay (died 1950), American poet and playwright
March 9 – Vita Sackville-West (died 1962), English novelist and poet
March 16 – César Vallejo (died 1938), Peruvian poet
May 7 – Archibald MacLeish (died 1982), American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress
May 17 – Leon Gellert (died 1977), Australian poet
May 26 – Maxwell Bodenheim (murdered 1954), American poet and novelist
June 12 – Djuna Barnes (died 1982), American writer and poet
July 8 – Richard Aldington (died 1962), English poet, novelist, writer, translator and biographer
August 11 – Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve (died 1978), Scottish poet
October 8 (September 26 O.S.) – Marina Tsvetaeva (suicide 1941), Russian poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 26 – Walt Whitman (born 1819), American poet and journalist
May 2 – Barcroft Boake (born 1866), Australian poet and boundary rider, probable suicide
July 15 – Thomas Cooper (born 1805), English Chartist, poet and religious lecturer
September 7 – John Greenleaf Whittier (born 1807), American poet
October 6 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson (born 1809), English Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
