1870 in poetry

Years in poetry:	1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873
Years in literature:	1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873
Decades in poetry:	1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
Centuries in poetry:	18th century 19th century 20th century
Centuries:	18th century · 19th century · 20th century
Decades:	1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
Years:	1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873

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Adam Lindsay Gordon, Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes
Giovanni Marradi, Canzone moderne
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poems, including "Jenny" and a fragment of "The House of Life"
James Joseph Sylvester, a mathematician, publishes The Laws of Verse

March 4 — Thomas Sturge Moore (died 1944), English poet, author, playwright, artist and long-term friend of W.B. Yeats
July 27 — Hilaire Belloc (died 1953), English writer whose "cautionary tales" (humorous poems with a moral) are the most widely known of his writing
October 22 — Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (died 1945), a minor Uranian poet best remembered as a lover of the writer Oscar Wilde
date not known:
- Christopher John Brennan of Australia
- Eva Selena Gore-Booth of Ireland

January 25 — David Bates, 60, American poet
June 24 — Adam Lindsay Gordon, 36, Australian poet and jockey
June ?? — William Gilmore Simms, 64, Southern American poet, novelist and historian
date not known — James M. Whitfield