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October 5 – Model, poet and artist Elizabeth Siddal (d. 1862) is exhumed at Highgate Cemetery in London in order to recover the manuscript of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems buried with her.
Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, Volumes 3 and 4 (Volume 3 published in January, Volume 4 in February; see also The Ring and the Book 1868)
C. S. Calverley, Theocritus Translated into English Verse
A. H. Clough, Poems and Prose Remains (see also Letters 1865)
W. S. Gilbert, Bab Ballads, first published in Fun, a comic journal (see also More 'Bab' Ballads 1872)
John Keble, Miscellaneous Poems
William Morris, The Earthly Paradise, Part 3 (published this year, although the book states "1870"; Parts 1 and 2 1868; Part 4 1870)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poems
Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Holy Grail, and Other Poems, with "The Coming of Arthur," "The Holy Grail," "Pelleas and Ettarre," and "The Passing of Arthur" (published this year, although the book states "1870"; see also Idylls of the King 1859, 1870, 1889, "The Last Tournament" 1871, Gareth and Lynette 1872, "Balin and Balan" in Tiresias 1885)
William Cullen Bryant:
Hymns
Some Notices of the Life and Writings of Fitz-Greene Halleck
William Dean Howells, No Love Lost: A Romance of Travel
James Russell Lowell, Under the Willows and Other Poems
Joaquin Miller, Joaquin et al.
Edmund Clarence Stedman, The Blameless Prince and Other Poems
John Greenleaf Whittier, Among the Hills
Dutt Family, Dutt Family Album, London: Longmans, Green and Co.