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Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, Volumes 3 and 4 (Volume 3 published in January, Volume 4 in February; see also The Ring and the Book 1868)^[1]
C. S. Calverley, Theocritus Translated into English Verse^[1]
A. H. Clough, Poems and Prose Remains (see also Letters 1865)
W. S. Gilbert, Bab Ballads, first published in Fun, a comic journal (see also More 'Bab' Ballads 1872)^[1]
John Keble, Miscellaneous Poems^[1]
William Morris, The Earthly Paradise, Part 3 (published this year, although the book states "1870"; Parts 1 and 2 1868; Part 4 1870)^[1]
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poems
Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Holy Grail, and Other Poems, with "The Coming of Arthur," "The Holy Grail," "Pelleas and Ettarre," and "The Passing of Arthur" (published this year, although the book states "1870"; see also Idylls of the King 1859, 1870, 1889, "The Last Tournament" 1871, Gareth and Lynette 1872, "Balin and Balan" in Tiresias 1885)^[1]

Charles Baudelaire:
- L'Art romantique
- Le Spleen de Paris/Petits Poémes en Prose ("Paris Spleen")
Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
Paul Verlaine, Les Fêtes galantes

Dutt Family, Dutt Family Album, London: Longmans, Green and Co.; India, Indian poetry in English^[4]
Henry Kendall, Leaves from Australian Forests, Australia

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

February 11 – Else Lasker-Schüler (died 1945), German
May 12 – Frank Morton (died 1923), Australian
May 23 – Olivia Bush, née Ward, later Banks, American
July 8 – William Vaughn Moody (died 1910), American
August 6:
- Marie E. J. Pitt (died 1948), Australian poet, journalist and political activist
- David McKee Wright (died 1928), Irish-born poet and journalist, active in New Zealand and Australia
August 7 – E. J. Brady (died 1952), Australian poet, wharf clerk, a farmer and journalist; founder of the artist colony at Mallacoota, Victoria in Australia
August 10 – Laurence Binyon (died 1943), English poet, dramatist, and art scholar
August 21 – Will H. Ogilvie (died 1963), Scottish-Australian narrative poet and horseman
October 6 – Bo Bergman (died 1967)
November 15 – Charlotte Mew (died 1928), English
December 1 – George Sterling (died 1926), American
December 22 – Edwin Arlington Robinson, American
December 30 – Stephen Leacock (died 1952)

Also:
- Arthur Shearly Cripps (died 1945) English Anglican priest, short story writer, and poet who spent most of his life in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
- Miltiadis Malakasis (died 1943), Greek
- Balawantrai Thakore (died 1952), the first Imagist and formalist poet in Indian, Gujarati-language literature; introduced into Gujarati the sonnet and prithvi meter, "which is closest to English blank verse", according to The Handbook of Twentieth-Century Indian Literature^[5]
- Arnold Wall (died 1966), New Zealand

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

February 15 – Mirza Ghalib (born 1797), classical Urdu and Persian poet from India
February 28 – Alphonse de Lamartine (born 1790), French writer, poet and politician
November 3 – Andreas Kalvos (born 1792), Greek
date not known - Charlotte Alington Barnard

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ Heymann, C. David. American Aristocracy: The Lives and Times of James Russell, Amy, and Robert Lowell. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1980. ISBN 0396076084
^ Wagenknecht, Edward. John Greenleaf Whittier: A Portrait in Paradox. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967
^ Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0391032860, ISBN 9780391032866), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
^ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008