# 1873 in poetry

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

## Events

* July 10 – Paul Verlaine shoots at and wounds Arthur Rimbaud in Brussels.

## Works published in English
### 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

## Works published in other languages
### France

* Tristan Corbière, Les amours jaunes
* 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:
* 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

## Deaths

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