Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
June 6 – Statue of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin (died 1837), sculpted by Alexander Opekushin, is unveiled in Strastnaya Square, Moscow
H. C. Beeching and J. W. Mackail lead a group of seven Balliol College, Oxford members in publishing The Masque of B-ll—l, which is immediately suppressed by the authorities
Robert Bridges, Poems (see also Poems 1873, 1879)
Robert Browning, Dramatic Idyls, second series (see also Dramatic Idyls 1879)
Jean Ingelow, Poems, Volume 1 is a reprint the 23rd edition of Poems (1863); Volume 2 is a reprint from the sixth edition of A Story of Doom (1867); (see also Poems: Third Series 1885)
Andrew Lang, XXII Ballades in Blue China
William McGonagall, "The Tay Bridge Disaster"
Emily Pfeiffer, Sonnets and Songs
Algernon Charles Swinburne:
The Heptalogia; or, The Seven Against Sense, parodies of seven contemporary poets: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Browning, Coventry Patmore, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Swinburne himself
Songs of the Springtides
Studies in Song
John Addington Symonds, New and Old
James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, and Other Poems, the title poem was first published in the National Reformer, March 22–May 17, 1874
William Watson, The Prince's Quest, and Other Poems
Bret Harte, Poetical Works
Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Iron Gate and Other Poems
Sidney Lanier, The Science of English Verse, scholarship
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ultima Thule
Richard Henry Stoddard, Poems
Rosario de Acuña, Morirse a tiempo, Spain
Rosalia de Castro, Follas novas, Galician poems written in Spain
Henry Kendall, Songs from the Mountains, Australia
Guido Mazzoni, Versi, Italy
Charles G. D.