Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Alfred Austin, The Tower of Babel
Robert William Dale, The English Hymn Book
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Fables in Song
Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Music and Moonlight
James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, published in the National Reformer, and later in 1880
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Cloth of Gold and Other Poems
William Cullen Bryant, Among the Trees
Mary Mapes Dodge, Rhymes and Jingles
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
Editor, Poems of Places, anthology, United States
The Hanging of the Crane
Mary Ashley Townsend, The Captain's Story
François Coppée, Le Cahier rouge
Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations, France
Comte de Lautréamont, pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, Les Chants de Maldoror, prose poems full of Gothic horror (first published in full this year; originally published in parts in 1868 and 1869); France
Paul Verlaine, Romances sans paroles, France
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 16 – Robert William Service, "the Bard of the Yukon" (died 1958), Scots-Canadian poet, writer of "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
February 3 – Gertrude Stein (died 1946), American writer, poet and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature; spends most of her life in France
February 9 – Amy Lowell (died 1925), American poet of the imagist school, posthumous winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926
February 20 – Gordon Bottomley (died 1948), English poet known particularly for his verse dramas
February 22 – Kyoshi Takahama 高浜 虚子, pen name of Kiyoshi Takahama (died 1959), Japanese, Shōwa period poet; close disciple of Masaoka Shiki (surname: Takahama)
March – Stanley de Vere Alexander Julius (died 1930), English military officer and poet
March 26 – Robert Frost (died 1963), American poet
April 27 – Maurice Baring (died 1945), English poet, novelist, translator, essayist, travel writer and war correspondent
May 29 – G. K.