Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
First printed version of the Thai epic Khun Chang Khun Phaen.
Alfred Austin, Interludes
Robert Browning, Fifine at the Fair
C. S. Calverley, published anonymously, Fly Leaves
Samuel Ferguson, Congal
W. S. Gilbert, More "Bab" Balads (see also "Bab" Ballads 1869)
Edward Lear, More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc.
Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man
Christina Rossetti, Sing-Song, book of nursery rhymes
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette (see also Idylls of the King 1859, The Holy Grail 1869, Idylls of the King 1870, 1889, "The Last Tournament" 1871, "Balin and Balan" in Tiresias 1885),
Thomas Gold Appleton, Faded Leaves
Paul Hamilton Hayne, Legends and Lyrics
Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, a book that combines fiction and nonfiction prose, together with poetry
Albert Pike, Hymns to the Gods
Celia Thaxter, Poems
John Greenleaf Whittier, The Pennsylvania Pilgrim, United States
Alfred Domett, Ranolf and Amohia, epic poem in a Maori setting, New Zealand
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Three Books of Song
François Coppée:
Les Bijoux de la delivrance, short verse drama inspired by the Franco-Prussian War; France
Les Humbles
Victor Hugo, L'Année terrible, France
Catulle Mendès, La Part du roi, verse drama, a one-act comedy; France
Hilario Ascasubi, Obras completas ("Complete Works"), three volumes compiled by the author; Argentine author writing in Spanish
Girolamo de Rada, Skënderbeu i pafat, begins publication, Arbëresh
Holger Drachmann, Digte ("Poems"), Denmark
José Hernández, Martín Fierro, the first part of an epic Spanish-language Argentine poem in which the hero defends his way of life against encroaching socialization and civilization; an example of the Gaucho poetry literary movement in Argentina (see also second part 1879)
Michel Rodange, Renert odder de Fuuss am Frack an a Maansgréisst, Luxembourg
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 22 – John Shaw Neilson (died 1942), Australian
June 27 – Paul Laurence Dunbar (died 1906), African American
July 8 – Sasaki Nobutsuna 佐佐木信綱 (died 1963), Japanese, Shōwa period tanka poet and scholar of the Nara and Heian periods (surname: Sasaki)
August 15 – Sri Aurobindo (Bengali: শ্রী অরবিন্দ Sri Ôrobindo) (died 1950), Indian nationalist, poet, Yogi and spiritual Guru writing mostly in English
October 10 – Arthur Talmage Abernethy (died 1956), American poet, journalist, theologian and minister; North Carolina Poet Laureate 1948–1953
October 18 (October 6 O.