Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
February 18 – English Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins takes up a post as professor of Greek and Latin at University College Dublin in Ireland, where he will remain until his death in 1889 and write his "terrible sonnets".
Isabella Valancy Crawford, Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and Other Poems. Published at author's expense.
James McIntyre. Musings on the Banks of the Canadian Thames. London, ON.
Francis Adams, Henry and Other Tales
Robert Browning, Ferishtah's Fancies
Andrew Lang, Rhymes à la Mode
Amy Levy, A Minor Poet, and Other Verse
Marc-André Raffalovich, Cyril and Lionel and other poems: a volume of sentimental studies, French-born author writing in English
Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Midsummer Holiday, and Other Poems
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Mercedes and Later Lyrics
Louise Imogen Guiney, Songs at the Start
Sidney Lanier, Poems, published posthumously
Joaquin Miller, Memorie and Rime
Edmund Clarence Stedman, Songs and Ballads
Henry Timrod, Katie
Rosario de Acuña, Sentir y pensar, Spain
Rosalia de Castro, En las orillas del Sar, Galician Spanish poet, writing in Spanish
Lie Kim Hok, Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari, ethnic Chinese poet, writing in Malay
Rabindranath Tagore, Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali, Indian poet, writing in Braj Bhasha
English poet Alfred Tennyson is created 1st Baron Tennyson of Aldworth in the County of Sussex and of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, hereafter being known as Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 14 – Kostas Varnalis (Κώστας Βάρναλης), (died 1974), Greek
March 28 – Angelos Sikelianos (Άγγελος Σικελιανός) (died 1951), Greek poet and playwright
April 2 - John Collings Squire (died 1958), English poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor of the post-World War I period
June 29 - Francis Brett Young (died 1954), English novelist and poet
July 24 - Donald Evans (died 1921), American poet, publisher, music critic and journalist
July 29 - Eunice Tietjens (died 1944), American poet, novelist, journalist, children's author, lecturer, and editor
August 8 - Sara Teasdale (died 1933), American lyric poet
October 13 - Walter J.