1867 in poetry

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]

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]

Adam Lindsay Gordon
- Ashtaroth, a Dramatic Lyric
- Sea Spray and Smoke Drift
Henry Kendall – "Bell-Birds"

Works published in other languages

François Coppée, Les Intimites and Poemes modernes, published from this year to 1869^[6]
Alfred de Vigny, Journal d’un poète ("Journal of a Poet"), posthumously published

Lydia Koidula, Emajõe Ööbik ("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

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February 9 – Natsume Sōseki 夏目漱石 (commonly referred to as "Sōseki"), pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke 夏目金之助 (died 1916), Japanese, Meiji Era novelist, haiku poet, composer of Chinese-style poetry, writer of fairy tales and a scholar of English literature; from 1984–2004, his portrait appears on the 1000 yen note (surname: Natsume)
March 2 – Louis Lavater (died 1953), Australian
March 15 – Lionel Pigot Johnson (died 1902), English
April 10 – George William Russell "Æ" (died 1935), Irish
June 5 - Paul-Jean Toulet (died 1920), French
June 17 – Henry Lawson (died 1922), Australian
August 2 – Ernest Dowson (died 1900), English poet, novelist and writer of short stories associated with the Decadent movement
August 13 – Rudolf G. Binding (died 1938), Swiss-born German
September 17 – Masaoka Shiki 正岡子規, pen-name of Masaoka Tsunenori 正岡常規, who changes his name to Noboru 升 (died 1902), Japanese author, poet, literary critic, journalist and, early in his life, a baseball player (surname: Masaoka)
November 8 – Sadakichi Hartmann (died 1944), American
November 26 – Roderic Quinn (died 1949), Australian

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Deaths

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January 5? – Alexander Smith (born 1829), Scottish Spasmodic poet
January 20 – Nathaniel Parker Willis (born 1806), American author, poet and editor
February 2 – Forceythe Willson (born 1837), American poet
February 23 – Pietro Zorutti (Pieri Çorut, born 1792), Friulian poet
August 31 – Charles Baudelaire (born 1821), French poet, critic and translator
October 7 – Henry Timrod (born 1829), American poet
November 19 – Fitz-Greene Halleck (born 1790), American poet
John Hollin Ridge (born 1827), American poet

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