1885 in poetry

• Henri Beauclair and Gabriel Vicaire, using the pseudonym Adoré Floupette, publish Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette, a parodic collection of poems satirising French symbolism and the Decadent movement.

• Frederick George Scott, Justin and Other Poems."[http://www.canadianpoetry.ca/confederation/FGScott/index.htm Frederick George Scott] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501025903/http://www.canadianpoetry.ca/confederation/FGScott/index.htm |date=2012-05-01 }}," Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, Apr. 19, 12011. Published at author's expense.

• Maude Ashurst Biggs, Master Thaddeus, first English translation of Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz (1834)
• Robert Bridges, Eros and Psyche{{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}}
• Charles Stuart Calverley (died 1884), Literary Remains
• Jean Ingelow, Poems: Third Series (see also Poems 1863, Poems 1880)
• William Morris, Chants for Socialists
• Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses
• Algernon Charles Swinburne, Marino Faliero
• Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial
• Alfred Lord Tennyson, Tiresias, and Other Poems, including "Balin and Balan", one of the Idylls of the King 1870; "The Last Tournament" 1871; Gareth and Lynette 1872, Idylls of the King 1889
• Katharine Tynan, Louise de la Valliere, and Other Poems

• Charles Follen Adams, Mother's Doughnuts[http://www.harpers.org/archive/1885/06/0002738 "Mother's doughnuts" by Charles Follen Adams (Harper's Magazine)]
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich, PoemsLudwig, 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)
• Will Carleton, City Ballads
• William Ellery Channing, Eliot
• Ada Langworthy Collier, "Lilith, The Legend of the First Woman"{{cite book|author=Johnson Brigham|title=The Midland Monthly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NJhBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA280|edition=Public domain|volume=6|year=1896|publisher=Johnson Brigham|pages=280–}}
• Paul Hamilton Hayne, The Broken Battalions
• Oliver Wendell Holmes:
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, nonfiction
• Illustrated Poems
• Eva Munson Smith, Woman in Sacred Song

• Toru Dutt, Ancient Ballads and Legends of HindustanKnippling, Alpana Sharma, "Chapter 3: Twentieth-Century Indian Literature in English", in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, [https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&q=Urdu+poets Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India] (Google books link), Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, {{ISBN|978-0-313-28778-7}}, retrieved December 10, 2008 Indian writing in English

• Catulle Mendès, Soirs moroses, Contes épiques, Philoméla, etc; Poésies, in seven volumes; France{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Mendès, Catulle|volume=18 |pages=124–125}}

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

• January 6 – Humbert Wolfe (died 1940), English poet, writer and civil servant
• January 20 – Ozaki Hōsai 尾崎 放哉 pen name of Ozaki Hideo (died 1926), Japanese, late Meiji period and Taishō period poet
• January 25 – Hakushū Kitahara 北原 白秋, pen-name of Kitahara Ryūkichi 北原 隆吉 (died 1942), Japanese, Taishō and Shōwa period tanka poet
• April 21 – Mitsuko Shiga 四賀光子, pen-name of Mitsu Ota (died 1956), Japanese, Taishō and Shōwa period tanka poet, a woman
• April 26 – Dakotsu Iida 飯田 蛇笏, commonly referred to as "Dakotsu", pen names of Takeji Iida 飯田 武治 (died 1962), Japanese, haiku poet; trained under Takahama Kyoshi
• April 29 – Andrew Young (died 1971), Scottish-born poet and clergyman
• May 12 – Saneatsu Mushanokōji 武者小路 実篤 實篤, sometimes known as "Mushakōji Saneatsu"; other pen-names included "Musha" and "Futo-o" (died 1976), Japanese, late Taishō period and Shōwa period novelist, playwright, poet, artist and philosopher
• May 13 – Hideo Nagata 長田秀雄 (died 1949), Japanese, Shōwa period poet, playwright and screenwriter
• July 1 – Dorothea Mackellar (died 1968), Australian poet and fiction writer
• July 20 – Herman Wildenvey, born Portaas (died 1959), Norwegian poet
• August 18 – Nettie Palmer (died 1964), Australian poet, essayist and Australia's leading literary critic; wife of Vance Palmer
• August 24 – Bokusui Wakayama, 若山 牧水 (died 1928), Japanese "Naturalist" tanka poet
• August 28 – Vance Palmer, (died 1959), Australian novelist, dramatist, essayist and critic; husband of Nettie Palmer
• September 3 – Ghulam AhmadMahjur (died 1952), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
• September 11 – D. H. Lawrence (died 1930), English fiction writer, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic
• October 30 – Ezra Pound (died 1972), American poet and editor
• November 9 (October 28 O.S.) – Velimir Khlebnikov (died 1922), Russian Futurist poet and writer
• December 19 – F. S. Flint (died 1960), English poet, translator and prominent member of the Imagist group
• Also
• Govindagraj, also known as "Ram Ganes" Gadkari (died 1919), Indian, Marathi-language poet, playwright and humoristDas, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, [https://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2], 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, {{ISBN|978-81-7201-798-9}}, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
• Ivan Zorman (died 1957), Slovene-born poet and composer

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

• January 10 – Amable Tastu (born 1795), French women of letters and poet
• May 22 – Victor Hugo (born 1802), French novelist and poet
• April 8 – Susanna Moodie (born 1803), Canadian poet
• April 30 – Jens Peter Jacobsen (born 1847), Danish novelist and poetPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
• May 29 – Alfred Meissner (born 1821?), Austrian poet
• July 5 – Charles Whitehead (born 1804), English poet, novelist and playwright
• July 15 – Rosalía de Castro (born 1837), Spanish Galician poet and writer
• August 11 – Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (born 1809), English man of letters, poet and politician
• August 12 – Helen Hunt Jackson (born 1830), American writer, novelist and poet
• September 24 – George Frederick Cameron (born 1854 in poetry), Canadian poet and journalist

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