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.

Canada

 * Charles Heavysege, "Jezebel," New Dominion Monthly (Montreal)

United Kingdom

 * Matthew Arnold, New Poems, 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

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 (first edition 1855)
 * 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"

France

 * François Coppée, Les Intimites and Poemes modernes, published from this year to 1869
 * Alfred de Vigny, Journal d’un poète ("Journal of a Poet"), posthumously published

Other

 * 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

Births
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

Deaths
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