1867 in poetry

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

Events

The first blue plaque is erected in London by the Royal Society of Arts on the birthplace (1788) of English poet Lord Byron, subsequently demolished.

Matthew Arnold, New Poems,{{cite book|editor=Cox, Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}} including "Dover Beach"
Philip James Bailey, Universal Hymn (see also Festus 1839)
Mathilde Blind, publishing under the pen name "Claude Lake", Poems
Jean Ingelow, A Story of Doom, and Other Poems
William Morris, The Life and Death of Jason
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Song of Italy
Augusta Webster, A Woman Sold, and Other Poems

George Arnold, Poems, Grave and Gay, published posthumouslyLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
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{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Simms, William Gilmore |volume=25 |pages=123–124}}
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 (first edition 1855)
John Greenleaf Whittier, The Tent on the BeachWagenknecht, Edward. John Greenleaf Whittier: A Portrait in Paradox. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967

François Coppée, Les Intimites and Poemes modernes, published from this year to 1869{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Coppée, François Édouard Joachim |volume=7 |pages=101–102}}
Alfred de Vigny, Journal d’un poète ("Journal of a Poet"), posthumously published

Lydia Koidula, Emajõe Ööbik ("The Nightingale of the Mother River"), Estonia
Jan Neruda, Knihy veršů ("Books of Verses"), Czech
Piet Paaltjens (François Haverschmidt), Snikken en grimlachjes: poëzie uit den studententijd ("Sobs and Bitter Grins: poetry of student days"), Netherlands{{ISBN|90-214-9765-4}}

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

February 9 – Natsume Sōseki 夏目漱石 (commonly referred to as "Sōseki"), pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke 夏目金之助 (died 1916), 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 (surname: Natsume)
March 2 – Louis Lavater (died 1953), Australian
March 15 – Lionel Pigot Johnson (died 1902), English
April 10 – George William Russell "Æ" (died 1935), Irish
June 5 - Paul-Jean Toulet (died 1920), French
June 17 – Henry Lawson (died 1922), Australian
August 2 – Ernest Dowson (died 1900), English poet, novelist and writer of short stories associated with the Decadent movement
August 13 – Rudolf G. Binding (died 1938), 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 (died 1902), Japanese author, poet, literary critic, journalist and, early in his life, a baseball player (surname: Masaoka)
November 8 – Sadakichi Hartmann (died 1944), American
November 26 – Roderic Quinn (died 1949), Australian

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

January 5? – Alexander Smith (born 1829), Scottish Spasmodic poet
January 20 – Nathaniel Parker Willis (born 1806), American author, poet and editor
February 2 – Forceythe Willson (born 1837), American poet
February 23 – Pietro Zorutti (Pieri Çorut, born 1792), Friulian poet
August 31 – Charles Baudelaire (born 1821), French poet, critic and translator
October 7 – Henry Timrod (born 1829), American poet
November 19 – Fitz-Greene Halleck (born 1790), American poet
John Hollin Ridge (born 1827), American poet