Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

• Frederick James Furnivall founds the Chaucer Society

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

• January 10 – Ozaki Kōyō 尾崎 紅葉, pen name of Ozaki Tokutaro 尾崎 徳太郎 (died 1903), novelist, essayist and haiku poet (surname: Ozaki)
• May 14 – Mary Eliza Fullerton (died 1946), Australian
• August 6 - Paul Claudel (died 1955), French
• August 23 – Edgar Lee Masters (died 1950), American poet, biographer, dramatist and lawyer
• October 29 – Robert Crawford (died 1930), Australian
• December 25 – Ahmed Shawqi أحمد شوقي (died 1932), Egyptian poet and playwright
• December 29 – Kitamura Tokoku 北村透谷, pen-name of Kitamura Montaro (died 1894), Japanese, late Meiji period poet, essayist and a founder of the modern Japanese romantic literary movement (surname: Kitamura)
• Also:
  • Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (died 1920), poet and leader of the Dervish movement
  • Kavi Kant (died 1923), Indian, Gujarati-language writer and poet, writer of khandakavyas (narrative poems) and ghazals
  • K. C. Kesava Pillai (died 1914), Indian, Malayalam-language musician and poet^[6]

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

• March 29 – Susanna Hawkins (born 1787), Scottish
• April 26 – James Lionel Michael (born 1824), Australian
• June 10 – Charles Harpur (born 1813), Australian
• August 10 – Adah Isaacs Menken (born 1835), American actress, painter and poet
• September 11 – Maria James (born 1793), American poet and domestic servant
• October 13 – Tachibana Akemi, 橘曙覧 (born 1812), Japanese poet and classical scholar (surname: Tachibana)

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• Victorian literature
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