Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
June 8 – English poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins dies aged 54 in Dublin of typhoid; he is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery; most of his poetry remains unpublished until 1918.
December 12 – English poet Robert Browning dies aged 77 at Ca' Rezzonico in Venice on the same day his book Asolando; Fancies and facts is published; he is buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey; Alfred, Lord Tennyson will be buried adjacently.
William Wilfred Campbell, Lake lyrics and other poems (Saint John: J.& A. McMillan)
Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, Acadian Legends and Lyrics, Canada
Sophia Almon Hensley, Poems.
James McIntyre, Poems of James McIntyre.
Anthologies
Songs of the Great Dominion: Voices from the Forests and Waters, the Settlements and Cities of Canada. (London [England]: Walter Scott). 500-page anthology of Canadian poetry.
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, A New Pilgrimage, and Other Poems
Robert Bridges, The Feast of Bacchus
Thomas Edward Brown, The Manx Witch, and Other Poems
Robert Browning, Asolando; Fancies and facts
Amy Levy, A London Plane–Tree, and Other Verse
Walter Pater, Appreciations: With an Essay on Style, criticism
Emily Pfeiffer, Flowers of the Night
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads, Third Series (see also First Series 1866; Second Series 1878)
Arthur Symons, Days and Nights
Alfred Lord Tennyson:
Demeter and Other Poems
He writes "Crossing the Bar" in October as he crosses the Solent
Idylls of the King, complete edition of the Idylls, with final titles (see also Idylls of the King 1859, The Holy Grail 1869, Idylls of the King 1870, "The Last Tournament" 1871, Gareth and Lynette 1872, "Balin and Balan" in Tiresias 1885)
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