1873 in poetry

• July 10 – Paul Verlaine shoots at and wounds Arthur Rimbaud in Brussels.^[1]

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

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 poet and author, dies in fire
• October 27 – Janet Hamilton (born 1795), Scottish poet
• December 24 – Rangga Warsita (born 1802), Javanese
• Undated
  • Kasiprasad Ghose, Indian
  • Dimitrios Paparrigopoulos (born 1843), Greek

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