1867 in poetry

Events

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

  Works published in English

Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada

• Charles Heavysege, "Jezebel," New Dominion Monthly

  United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• Matthew Arnold, New Poems, including "Dover Beach"
• Philip James Bailey, Universal Hymn
• 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">American poetry">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, ""
• Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, fourth edition
• John Greenleaf Whittier, The Tent on the Beach

  Other in English

• Adam Lindsay Gordon
• * Ashtaroth, a Dramatic Lyric
• * Sea Spray and Smoke Drift
• Henry Kendall – "Bell-Birds"

  Works published in other languages

France">French poetry">France

• François Coppée, Les Intimites and Poemes modernes, published from this year to 1869
• Alfred de Vigny, Journal d’un poète, posthumously published

  Other

• Lydia Koidula, Emajõe Ööbik, Estonia
• Jan Neruda, Knihy veršů, Czech
• Piet Paaltjens, Snikken en grimlachjes: poëzie uit den studententijd, Netherlands

  Births

• February 9 - Natsume Sōseki 夏目 漱石, pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke 夏目金之助, 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
• March 2 - Louis Lavater, Australian
• March 15 - Lionel Pigot Johnson, English
• April 10 - George William Russell "Æ", Irish
• June 5 - Paul-Jean Toulet, French
• June 17 - Henry Lawson, Australian
• August 2 - Ernest Dowson, English poet, novelist and writer of short stories associated with the Decadent movement
• August 13 - Rudolf G. Binding, 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, Japanese author, poet, literary critic, journalist and, early in his life, a baseball player
• November 8 - Sadakichi Hartmann, American
• November 26 - Roderic Quinn, Australian

  Deaths

• January 5? - Alexander Smith, Scottish Spasmodic poet
• January 20 - Nathaniel Parker Willis, American author, poet and editor
• February 2 - Forceythe Willson, American poet
• February 23 - Pietro Zorutti, Friulian poet
• August 31 - Charles Baudelaire , French poet, critic and translator
• October 7 - Henry Timrod, American poet
• November 19 - Fitz-Greene Halleck, American poet
• John Hollin Ridge, American poet