1867 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- The first blue plaque is erected in London by the Royal Society of Arts on the birthplace of English poet Lord Byron, subsequently demolished.
Works published in English
Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada
- Charles Heavysege, "Jezebel," ''New Dominion Monthly''
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Matthew Arnold, New Poems, including "Dover Beach"
- Philip James Bailey, Universal Hymn
- Mathilde Blind, publishing under the pen name "Claude Lake", Poems
- Jean Ingelow, A Story of Doom, and Other Poems
- Ellen Johnston, "the 'factory girl'", Autobiography, Poems and Songs
- William Morris, The Life and Death of Jason
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, Song of Italy
- Augusta Webster, ''A Woman Sold, and Other Poems''
United States">American poetry">United States
- George Arnold, Poems, Grave and Gay, published posthumously
- John Burroughs, Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person, biography and criticism
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, May-Day and Other Pieces
- Bret Harte, The Lost Galleon
- Josiah Gilbert Holland, Kathrina: Her Life and Mine, in a Poem
- Emma Lazarus, Poems and Translations
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Flower-de-Luce
- James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers, Second Series
- William Gilmore Simms, editor, War Poetry of the South
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Religious Poems
- Rose Hartwick Thorpe, Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight
- Henry Timrod, "Ode: Sung on the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C., 1867"
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, fourth edition
- John Greenleaf Whittier, ''The Tent on the Beach''
Other in English
Australia:- Adam Lindsay Gordon
- * Ashtaroth, a Dramatic Lyric
- * Sea Spray and Smoke Drift
- Henry Kendall – "Bell-Birds"
Works published in other languages
France">French poetry">France
- François Coppée, Les Intimites and Poemes modernes, published from this year to 1869
- Alfred de Vigny, Journal d’un poète, posthumously published
Other
- Lydia Koidula, Emajõe Ööbik, Estonia
- Jan Neruda, Knihy veršů, Czech
- Piet Paaltjens, Snikken en grimlachjes: poëzie uit den studententijd, Netherlands
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- February 9 - Natsume Sōseki 夏目 漱石, pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke 夏目金之助, Japanese, Meiji Era novelist, haiku poet, composer of Chinese-style poetry, writer of fairy tales and a scholar of English literature; from 1984-2004, his portrait appears on the 1000 yen note
- March 2 - Louis Lavater, Australian
- March 15 - Lionel Pigot Johnson, English
- April 10 - George William Russell "Æ", Irish
- June 5 - Paul-Jean Toulet, French
- June 17 - Henry Lawson, Australian
- August 2 - Ernest Dowson, English poet, novelist and writer of short stories associated with the Decadent movement
- August 13 - Rudolf G. Binding, Swiss-born German
- September 17 - Masaoka Shiki 正岡 子規, pen-name of Masaoka Tsunenori 正岡 常規, who changes his name to Noboru 升, Japanese author, poet, literary critic, journalist and, early in his life, a baseball player
- November 8 - Sadakichi Hartmann, American
- November 26 - Roderic Quinn, Australian
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 5? - Alexander Smith, Scottish Spasmodic poet
- January 20 - Nathaniel Parker Willis, American author, poet and editor
- February 2 - Forceythe Willson, American poet
- February 23 - Pietro Zorutti, Friulian poet
- August 31 - Charles Baudelaire, French poet, critic and translator
- October 7 - Henry Timrod, American poet
- November 19 - Fitz-Greene Halleck, American poet
- John Hollin Ridge, American poet