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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
- June 14 – Opening of Shelley Memorial at University College, Oxford (from which the poet was expelled in 1811), designed by Basil Champneys with a reclining nude marble statue of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Edward Onslow Ford
- Founding of Vangiya Sahitya Parishad in Bengal
Canada
- William Wilfred Campbell, The Dread Voyage Poems. Toronto: William Briggs.[1]
- Bliss Carman, Low Tide at Grand Pré[2]
- Mary Jane Katzmann, Frankincense and Myrrh: Selections from the poems of the late Mrs. William Lawson (M.J.K.L.). Harry Piers and Constance Fairbanks ed. Halifax.[3]
- Thomas O'Hagan, In Dreamland and Other Poems[4]
- Charles G. D. Roberts, Songs of the Common Day[2]
- Duncan Campbell Scott, The Magic House and Other Poems[4]
- James Elgin Wetherell, ed. Later Canadian Poems[5]
Ireland
- Douglas Hyde, editor and translator from the Gaelic, The Love Songs of Connacht, Ireland[6]
- W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction[7]
- W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom and Edwin John Ellis, The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, Quaritch[8]
United Kingdom
- Wilfred Scawen Blunt, published anonymously, Griselda[7]
- Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper, writing under the pen name "Michael Field", Underneath the Bough[7]
- Robert Bridges, The Humours of the Court: a Comedy; and Other Poems[7]
- Thomas Edward Brown, Old John, and Other Poems
- John Davidson, Fleet Street Eclogues, first series (see also Fleet Street Eclogues 1896)[7]
- W. E. Henley, London Voluntaries; The Song of the Sword; and Other Verses[7]
- George MacDonald, Poetical Works[7]
- Alice Meynell, Poems[7]
- Francis Thompson, Poems,[7] including "The Hound of Heaven"
- W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction[7]
- W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, and Edwin John Ellis, editors, The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, Quaritch[8]
United States
- Bliss Carman, Low Tide on Grand Pre, Canadian author published in the United States[9]
- Paul Laurence Dunbar, Oak and Ivy[9]
- Hamlin Garland, Prairie Songs[9]
- Louise Imogen Guiney, A Roadside Harp[9]
- Harriet Monroe, The Columbian Ode[9]
- James Whitcomb Riley, Poems Here at Home[9]
Other in English
- Henry Lawson, "Saint Peter", Australia
- Banjo Paterson, "The Geebung Polo Club", first published in The Antipodean, Australia
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- Carlo Favetti (died 1892), Rime e prose in vernacolo goriziano (Rhimes and Prose in the Vernacular of Gorizia), Friuli
- Francis Jammes, Vers, (also 1892 and 1894); France[10]
- Maryana Marrash, Bint fikr, Ottoman Syria
- Guido Mazzoni, Voci della vita, Italy
- Saint-Pol-Roux, pen name of Paul Roux, Les Reposoirs de la procession, published starting this year and ending in 1907; France[11]
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Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 3 – W. N. Hodgson (Edward Melbourne) (killed in action 1916), English war poet
- January 10 – Vicente Huidobro (died 1948), Chilean Creacionismo poet and editor
- January 17 – Evelyn Scott (died 1963), American writer and poet
- January 18 – Jorge Guillén (died 1984), Spanish
- February 11 – Nan Shepherd (died 1981), Scottish novelist and poet
- February 26 – Ivor Richards (died 1979), English literary critic
- March 4 – Ewart Alan Mackintosh (killed in action 1917), English war poet of Scottish ancestry
- March 6 – Motokichi Takahashi 高橋元吉 (died 1965), Japanese, Taishō and Shōwa period poet (surname: Takahashi)
- March 18 – Wilfred Owen (killed in action 1918), English war poet
- March 26 – Richard Church (died 1972), English poet
- July 13 – Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar (died 1949), Welsh poet and occultist
- July 19 – Vladimir Mayakovsky (suicide 1930), Russian poet and playwright
- July 26 – George Grosz (died 1959), German artist and poet
- August 22 – Dorothy Parker (died 1967), American writer, poet and wit
- September 6 or 16 – Robert Nichols (died 1944), English war poet
- September 28 – Giannis Skarimpas (died 1984), Greek
- October 9 – Mário de Andrade (died 1945), Brazilian poet and academic
- October 14 – May Wedderburn Cannan (died 1973), English war poet
- October 26
- Miloš Crnjanski, (died 1977) Serbian poet and novelist
- Thomas MacGreevy (died 1967), Irish poet and director of the National Gallery of Ireland
- November 3 – Arthur Bourinot (died 1969), Canadian poet and lawyer
- December 4 – Herbert Read (born 1968), English anarchist poet and critic of literature and art
- December 6 – Sylvia Townsend Warner (died 1978), English novelist and poet
- December 30 – Gerald Bullett (died 1958), English writer and poet
- Also – Dharanidhar Sharma Koirala (died 1980), Indian, Nepali-language poet[12]
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Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 23 – Phillips Brooks (born 1835), American Episcopal clergyman and hymnwriter
- January 15 – Fanny Kemble (born 1809), English author, poet, playwright and actress
- April 19 – John Addington Symonds (born 1840), English poet and literary critic
- August 5 – Sarah T. Bolton, née Barrett (born 1814), American poet
- December 5 – Matsudaira Katamori 松平容保 (born 1836), Japanese samurai and poet in the last days of the Edo period and the early to mid Meiji period (surname: Matsudaira)
- December 9 – Charles Sangster (born 1822), Canadian poet
- Also – Venmani Mahan Namboodiri (born 1844), Indian, Malayalam-language poet associated with the Venmani School of poetry[13]
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- 19th century in poetry
- 19th century in literature
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- Victorian literature
- French literature of the 19th century
- Symbolist poetry
- Young Poland (Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
- Poetry
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