• June 6 – Statue of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin (died 1837), sculpted by Alexander Opekushin, is unveiled in Strastnaya Square, Moscow

United Kingdom edit

• H. C. Beeching and J. W. Mackail lead a group of seven Balliol College, Oxford members in publishing The Masque of B-ll—l, which is immediately suppressed by the authorities
• Robert Bridges, Poems (see also Poems 1873, 1879)^[1]
• Robert Browning, Dramatic Idyls, second series (see also Dramatic Idyls 1879)^[1]
• Jean Ingelow, Poems, Volume 1 is a reprint the 23rd edition of Poems (1863); Volume 2 is a reprint from the sixth edition of A Story of Doom (1867); (see also Poems: Third Series 1885)^[1]
• Andrew Lang, XXII Ballades in Blue China^[1]
• William McGonagall, "The Tay Bridge Disaster"
• Emily Pfeiffer, Sonnets and Songs^[1]
• Algernon Charles Swinburne:
  • The Heptalogia; or, The Seven Against Sense, parodies of seven contemporary poets: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Browning, Coventry Patmore, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Swinburne himself^[1]
  • Songs of the Springtides^[1]
  • Studies in Song^[1]
• John Addington Symonds, New and Old^[1]
• James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, and Other Poems, the title poem was first published in the National Reformer, March 22–May 17, 1874^[1]
• William Watson, The Prince's Quest, and Other Poems^[1]

United States edit

• Bret Harte, Poetical Works^[2]
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Iron Gate and Other Poems^[2]
• Sidney Lanier, The Science of English Verse, scholarship
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ultima Thule^[3]
• Richard Henry Stoddard, Poems^[2]

Other edit

• Rosario de Acuña, Morirse a tiempo, Spain
• Rosalia de Castro, Follas novas, Galician poems written in Spain
• Henry Kendall, Songs from the Mountains, Australia
• Guido Mazzoni, Versi, Italy
• Charles G. D. Roberts, Orion and Other Poems, Canada,^[4] published at author's expense
• Paul Verlaine, Sagesse, France

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 14 – Joseph Warren Beach (died 1957), American poet, critic and literary scholar
• February 27 – Angelina Weld Grimke (died 1958), African American lesbian journalist and poet^[5]
• August 12 – Radclyffe Hall (died 1943), English lesbian poet and novelist
• August 24 – Bahinabai Chaudhari बहिणाबाई चौधरी (died 1951), illiterate, Indian, Marathi-language poet whose son writes down her poems
• August 26 – Guillaume Apollinaire (died 1918), French poet, writer and art critic
• September 16 – Alfred Noyes (died 1958), English poet, best known for his ballads "The Highwayman" (1906) and "The Barrel Organ"
• November 30 – Grant Hervey, born George Henry Cochrane (died 1933), Australian versifier and swindler
• December 2 – Elizabeth Rebecca Ward, née Daniels (died 1978), English versifier
• December 28 – C. Louis Leipoldt (died 1947), South African Afrikaans poet, writer and pediatrician

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• May 8 – Jones Very (born 1813), American essayist, poet, clergyman, and mystic associated with the American Transcendentalism movement
• June 20 – Eliza Dunlop (born 1796), Australian lyricist and ethnographer
• July 7 – Lydia Maria Child, 78 (born 1802), American abolitionist, Indian and women's rights activist, opponent of American expansionism, novelist, journalist and poet
• November 6 – Estanislao del Campo (born 1834), Argentine
• December 22 – George Eliot, pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, 61 (born 1819), English novelist and poet
• December 30 – Epes Sargent (born 1813), American editor, poet and playwright

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