1873 in poetry

Events

• July 10 - Paul Verlaine shoots at and wounds Arthur Rimbaud in Brussels.

  Works published in English

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• Alexander Anderson, A Song of Labour, and Other Poems
• Robert Bridges, Poems by Robert Bridges
• Robert Browning, Red Cotton Night-Cap Country; or, Turf and Towers
• Edward Carpenter, Narcissus, and Other Poems
• Austin Dobson, Vignettes in Rhyme
• Dora Greenwell, Songs of Salvation
• William Morris, Love is Enough; or, The Freeing of Pharamond
• Emily Pfeiffer, Gerard's Monument, and Other Poems

  United States">American poetry">United States

• Will Carleton, Farm Ballads
• William Dean Howells, Poems
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Aftermath
• Bayard Taylor, Lars: A Pastoral of Norway

  Works published in other languages

France">French poetry">France

• Tristan Corbière, Les amours jaunes
• Arthur Rimbaud, Une Saison en Enfer
• Théodore de Banville, Trente-six ballades joyeuses, Paris: Lemerre; France
• Paul Verlaine:
• * Romances sans paroles
• * Art poétique, criticism

  Awards and honors

Births

• January 9 - Hayim Nahman Bialik, חיים נחמן ביאליק, Russian-born Hebrew poet
• January 7 - Charles Péguy, French poet and essayist
• February 26 - Tekkan Yosano, 与謝野 鉄幹, pen-name of Yosano Hiroshi, Japanese late Meiji period, Taishō and early Shōwa period author and poet; husband of author Yosano Akiko; grandfather of cabinet minister and politician Kaoru Yosano
• March 28 - Gilbert E. Brooke, French-born English poet and colonial medical officer
• April 12 - Kumaran Asan, Indian, Malayalam-language poet
• April 25 - Walter De la Mare, English poet, short story writer and novelist
• August 3 - Alexander Posey, Native American poet, journalist, humorist and politician
• October 10 - George Cabot Lodge American
• December 7 - Willa Cather, American novelist and poet
• December 11 - Tilly Aston, Australian
• December 12 - Lola Ridge, American
• December 29 - Ovid Densusianu , Romanian poet, philologist, linguist, folklorist, literary historian, critic, academic and journalist
• Undated
• * George Clarke, Canadian
• * Clementine Krämer, née Cahnmann, German poet and short-story writer

  Deaths

• April 26 - Vladimir Benediktov, Russian poet and translator
• May 9 - Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, American
• May 22 - Alessandro Manzoni, Italian poet and novelist
• June 29 - Michael Madhusudan Dutt, born Madhusudan Dutt, Indian, English-language poet and dramatist
• July 13 - Caroline Clive, also known as "Caroline Wigley Clive", 71, English author and poet
• October 27 - Janet Hamilton, Scottish poet
• December 24 - Rangga Warsita, Javanese
• Undated
• * Kasiprasad Ghose, Indian
• * Dimitrios Paparrigopoulos, Greek