1873 in poetry

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

Events

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^[4]
Paul Verlaine:
- Romances sans paroles^[5]
- Art poétique, criticism^[5]

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
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), American
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

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

^ Sutherland, John; Fender, Stephen (2011). "10 July: Poet shoots poet". Love, Sex, Death & Words: surprising tales from a year in literature. London: Icon. pp. 257–8. ISBN 978-184831-247-0.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ludwig, 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)
^ Web page "The Trente-six ballades joyeuses of Theodore de Banville", identified as page 328 and the first page of an article the web page references as "The Trente-six ballades joyeuses of Theodore de Banville, by Aaron Schaffer © 1922 The Johns Hopkins University Press." at the Jstor website, retrieved February 6, 2010
^ ^a ^b Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications