1867 in poetry
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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.
Works published in English
Canada
- Charles Heavysege, "Jezebel," New Dominion Monthly (Montreal)
United Kingdom
- Matthew Arnold, New Poems,[1] including "Dover Beach"
- Philip James Bailey, Universal Hymn (see also Festus 1839)[1]
- Mathilde Blind, publishing under the pen name "Claude Lake", Poems[1]
- Jean Ingelow, A Story of Doom, and Other Poems[1]
- Ellen Johnston, "the 'factory girl'", Autobiography, Poems and Songs (Scotland)[2]
- William Morris, The Life and Death of Jason[1]
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, Song of Italy[1]
- Augusta Webster, A Woman Sold, and Other Poems[1]
United States
- George Arnold, Poems, Grave and Gay, published posthumously[3]
- John Burroughs, Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person, biography and criticism[3]
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, May-Day and Other Pieces[3]
- Bret Harte, The Lost Galleon[3]
- Josiah Gilbert Holland, Kathrina: Her Life and Mine, in a Poem[3]
- Emma Lazarus, Poems and Translations[3]
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Flower-de-Luce[3]
- James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers, Second Series[3]
- William Gilmore Simms, editor, War Poetry of the South[4]
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Religious Poems[3]
- Rose Hartwick Thorpe, Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight[3]
- 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)[3]
- John Greenleaf Whittier, The Tent on the Beach[5]
Other in English
- Adam Lindsay Gordon
- Ashtaroth, a Dramatic Lyric
- Sea Spray and Smoke Drift
- Henry Kendall â "Bell-Birds"
Works published in other languages
France
- François Coppée, Les Intimites and Poemes modernes, published from this year to 1869[6]
- Alfred de Vigny, Journal dâun poète ("Journal of a Poet"), posthumously published
Other
- Lydia Koidula, Emajõe Ãöbik ("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[7]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 9 â Natsume SÅseki å¤ç® æ¼±ç³ (commonly referred to as "SÅseki"), pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke å¤ç®éä¹å© (died 1916), Japanese, Meiji Era novelist, haiku poet, composer of Chinese-style poetry, writer of fairy tales and a scholar of English literature; from 1984â2004, his portrait appears on the 1000 yen note (surname: Natsume)
- March 2 â Louis Lavater (died 1953), Australian
- March 15 â Lionel Pigot Johnson (died 1902), English
- April 10 â George William Russell "Ã" (died 1935), Irish
- June 5 - Paul-Jean Toulet (died 1920), French
- June 17 â Henry Lawson (died 1922), Australian
- August 2 â Ernest Dowson (died 1900), English poet, novelist and writer of short stories associated with the Decadent movement
- August 13 â Rudolf G. Binding (died 1938), Swiss-born German
- September 17 â Masaoka Shiki æ£å²¡ åè¦, pen-name of Masaoka Tsunenori æ£å²¡ 常è¦, who changes his name to Noboru å (died 1902), Japanese author, poet, literary critic, journalist and, early in his life, a baseball player (surname: Masaoka)
- November 8 â Sadakichi Hartmann (died 1944), American
- November 26 â Roderic Quinn (died 1949), Australian
Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 5? â Alexander Smith (born 1829), Scottish Spasmodic poet
- January 20 â Nathaniel Parker Willis (born 1806), American author, poet and editor
- February 2 â Forceythe Willson (born 1837), American poet
- February 23 â Pietro Zorutti (Pieri Ãorut, born 1792), Friulian poet
- August 31 â Charles Baudelaire (born 1821), French poet, critic and translator
- October 7 â Henry Timrod (born 1829), American poet
- November 19 â Fitz-Greene Halleck (born 1790), American poet
- John Hollin Ridge (born 1827), American poet