1884 in poetry

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

Canada

 * Isabella Valancy Crawford, Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and Other Poems''. Published at author's expense.
 * James McIntyre. Musings on the Banks of the Canadian Thames.'' London, ON.

United Kingdom

 * Robert Browning, Ferishtah's Fancies
 * Andrew Lang, Rhymes à la Mode
 * Amy Levy, A Minor Poet, and Other Verse
 * Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Midsummer Holiday, and Other Poems

United States

 * Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Mercedes and Later Lyrics
 * Louise Imogen Guiney, Songs at the Start
 * Sidney Lanier, Poems, published posthumously
 * Joaquin Miller, Memorie and Rime
 * Edmund Clarence Stedman, ''Songs and Ballads
 * Henry Timrod, Katie

Other

 * Rosalia de Castro, En las orillas del Sar, Galician Spanish poet, writing in Spanish

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February 14 – Kostas Varnalis Κώστας Βάρναλης, (died 1974), Greek
 * March 28 – Angelos Sikelianos Άγγελος Σικελιανός (died 1951), Greek poet and playwright
 * April 2 - John Collings Squire (died 1958), English poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor of the post-World War I period
 * June 29 - Francis Brett Young (died 1954), English novelist and poet
 * July 24 - Donald Evans (died 1921), American poet, publisher, music critic and journalist
 * July 29 - Eunice Tietjens (died 1944), American poet, novelist, journalist, children's author, lecturer, and editor
 * August 8- Sara Teasdale
 * November 5 - James Elroy Flecker (died 1915), English poet, novelist and playwright
 * December 31 - George Sylvester Viereck (died 1962), German-American poet, writer, and propagandist
 * Also:
 * Edith Alice Mary Harper, aka Anna Wickham (died 1947), British poet with strong Australian connections
 * Leknath Ponday, Indian, Nepali-language poet

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February 17 – Charles Stuart Calverley, 82, English poet and wit
 * February 28 – Matsudaira Teru 松平照 also called "Teruhime" 照姫, literally translated, "Princess Teru" (born 1832), Japanese, late Edo and early Meiji period aristocrat and skilled waka poet who instructed Matsudaira Katamori in poetry and calligraphy
 * March 19 – Elias Lönnrot, 81, Finnish philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry best known for composing the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic compiled from national folklore
 * John Harris, English poet