1873 in poetry

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

United Kingdom

 * Alexander Anderson, A Song of Labour, and Other Poems
 * Robert Bridges, Poems by Robert Bridges (see also Poems 1879, 1880)
 * Robert Browning, Red Cotton Night-Cap Country; or, Turf and Towers
 * Edward Carpenter, Narcissus, and Other Poems
 * Austin Dobson, Vignettes in Rhyme
 * Dora Greenwell, Songs of Salvation
 * William Morris, Love is Enough; or, The Freeing of Pharamond
 * Emily Pfeiffer, Gerard's Monument, and Other Poems

United States

 * Will Carleton, Farm Ballads
 * William Dean Howells, Poems
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Aftermath
 * Bayard Taylor, Lars: A Pastoral of Norway

France

 * Arthur Rimbaud, Une Saison en Enfer ("A Season in Hell")
 * Théodore de Banville, Trente-six ballades joyeuses, Paris: Lemerre; France
 * Paul Verlaine:
 * Romances sans paroles
 * Art poétique, criticism

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * 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)
 * April – Kumaran Asan (died 1924), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
 * April 25 – Walter De la Mare (died 1956), English poet, short story writer, and novelist
 * October 10 – George Cabot Lodge (died 1909) American
 * December 7 – Willa Cather, American
 * December 11 – Tilly Aston (died 1947), Australian
 * December 12 – Lola Ridge (died 1941), American
 * Also:
 * Kumaran Asan (died 1924), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
 * Gilbert E. Brooke (Singapore)
 * George Clarke, Canadian
 * Alexander L. Posey

Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * May 22 – Alessandro Manzoni (born 1785), Italian poet and novelist
 * July 13 – Caroline Clive, also known as "Caroline Wigley Clive", 71 (born 1801), English author and poet
 * October 27 – Janet Hamilton (born 1795), Scots
 * Also:
 * Michael Madhusudan Dutta (মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত also spelled "Maikel Modhushudôn Dôtto" and "Datta") (born 1824–1873), born Madhusudan Dutt, Indian, English-language poet poet and dramatist
 * Kasiprasad Ghose, Indian
 * Dimitrios Paparrigopoulos (born 1843), Greek
 * Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (born 1821), American