1875 in poetry

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

Events

 * October 1 - American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe is reburied in Westminster Hall and Burying Ground with a larger memorial marker. Some controversy arose years later on whether the correct body was exhumed.

United Kingdom

 * George Barlow, Under the Dawn
 * Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, published under the pen name "Proteus", Sonnets and Songs (see also Love Sonnets 1881, Love Lyrics 1892)
 * Robert Browning, Aristophanes' Apology
 * Alice Meynell, Preludes
 * Sir Henry Taylor, A Sicilian Summer; St. Clement's Eve; The Eve of the Conquest

United States

 * William Cullen Bryant, Poems
 * Will Carleton, Farm Legends
 * Christopher Pearse Cranch, The Bird and the Bell
 * Richard Watson Gilder, The New Day
 * Paul Hamilton Hayne, The Mountain of the Lovers
 * Oliver Wendell Holmes, Songs of Many Seasons
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Masque of Pandora and Other Poems
 * John Godfrey Saxe, Leisure-Day Rhymes
 * Bayard Taylor, Home Pastorals, Ballads, and Lyrics
 * John Greenleaf Whittier, Hazel-Blossoms

Works published in other languages

 * François Coppée, Olivier
 * Holger Drachmann,  Dæmpede Melodier  ("Muffled Melodies"), Denmark
 * French translation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", by Stéphane Mallarmé with drawings by Edouard Manet

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * March 30 – Edmund Clerihew Bentley (died 1956), popular English novelist and humorist and inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics
 * July 19 – Alice Dunbar-Nelson (died 1935) African-American poet, journalist and political activist and part of the Harlem Renaissance; her husband Paul Laurence Dunbar was also a poet
 * November 3 – Samukawa Sokotsu 寒川鼠骨(died1954), Haiku poet in Japan of Meiji period.Masaoka Shiki's pupil.
 * December 4 – Rainer Maria Rilke (died 1926) who has been called one of the greatest 20th century poets in German
 * December 8 – Yone Noguchi 野口米次郎 (died 1947), Japanese poet, fiction writer, essayist, and literary critic in both English and Japanese; father of the sculptor Isamu Noguchi
 * Also:
 * Jean Charbonneau (died 1960) French Canadian poet who was the primary founder of the Montreal Literary School
 * Percy MacKaye (died 1956), American dramatist and poet

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 22 – Charles Sprague, 83, American banker and poet
 * January 23 – Charles Kingsley, 55, English novelist and poet
 * June 4 – Eduard Mörike, 70, German Romantic poet
 * October 24 – Raffaello Carboni (born 1817), Australian
 * December 3 – Robert Stephen Hawker, 71, English poet, antiquarian of Cornwall, Anglican clergyman and reputed eccentric best known as the author of Cornwall's "national anthem" "The Song of the Western Men"
 * Also:
 * – Ōtagaki Rengetsu 太田垣蓮月, member of the Todo family who took "Rengetsu" ("Lotus Moon") as her Buddhist name when she became a nun, and is known as "Rengetsu" (born1791), Buddhist nun, widely regarded to have been one of the greatest Japanese poets of the 19th century; potter, painter and expert calligrapher