1873 in poetry

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

Events

 * July 10 – Paul Verlaine shoots at and wounds Arthur Rimbaud in Brussels.

United Kingdom

 * Alexander Anderson, A Song of Labour, and Other Poems
 * Robert Bridges, Poems by Robert Bridges (see also Poems 1879, 1880)
 * 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

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

France

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

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 9 – Hayim Nahman Bialik, חיים נחמן ביאליק (died 1934), Russian-born Hebrew poet
 * January 7 – Charles Péguy (killed in action 1914), French poet and essayist
 * February 26 – Tekkan Yosano, 与謝野 鉄幹, pen-name of Yosano Hiroshi (died 1935), 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 (surname: Yosano)
 * March 28 – Gilbert E. Brooke (died 1936), French-born English poet and colonial medical officer
 * April 12 – Kumaran Asan (died 1924), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
 * April 25 – Walter De la Mare (died 1956), English poet, short story writer and novelist
 * August 3 – Alexander Posey (drowned 1908), Native American poet, journalist, humorist and politician
 * August 13 – Dora Adele Shoemaker (died 1962), American poet and playwright
 * October 10 – George Cabot Lodge (died 1909) American
 * December 7 – Willa Cather (died 1947), American novelist and poet
 * December 11 – Tilly Aston (died 1947), Australian
 * December 12 – Lola Ridge (died 1941), Irish American anarchist and modernist poet, and editor of avant-garde, feminist and Marxist publications
 * December 29 – Ovid Densusianu ("Ervin") (died 1938), Romanian poet, philologist, linguist, folklorist, literary historian, critic, academic and journalist
 * Undated
 * George Clarke, Canadian
 * Clementine Krämer, née Cahnmann (died 1942 in Theresienstadt concentration camp), German poet and short-story writer

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * April 26 – Vladimir Benediktov (born 1807), Russian poet and translator
 * May 9 – Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (born 1821), American
 * May 22 – Alessandro Manzoni (born 1785), Italian poet and novelist
 * June 29 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt (মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত also spelled "Maikel Modhushudôn Dôtto", "Datta" or "Dutta"), born Madhusudan Dutt (born 1824–1873), Indian, English-language poet and dramatist
 * July 13 – Caroline Clive, also known as "Caroline Wigley Clive", 71 (born 1801), English author and poet
 * October 27 – Janet Hamilton (born 1795), Scottish poet
 * December 24 – Rangga Warsita (born 1802), Javanese
 * Undated
 * Kasiprasad Ghose, Indian
 * Dimitrios Paparrigopoulos (born 1843), Greek