1874 in poetry

	This is part of the List of years in poetry
Years in poetry:	1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877
Years in literature:	1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877
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:	1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877

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Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations
J. Thomson, "The City of Dreadful Night," published in National Reformer, and later in 1880

January 16 — Robert William Service (died 1958) a Scots-Canadian poet who wrote "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
February 3 — Gertrude Stein (died 1946), American writer, poet and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in France
February 9 — Amy Lowell (died 1925), American poet of the imagist school who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926
26 March — Robert Frost (died 1963), American poet
April 27 — Maurice Baring (died 1945), English poet, novelist, translator, essayist, travel writer, and war correspondent
May 29 — G. K. Chesterton (died 1936), influential English writer, journalist, poet, biographer, Christian apologist short story writer and novelist
June 20 — Trumbull Stickney (died 1904), American classical scholar and poet best known for his sonnets
November 30 — Lucy Maud Montgomery (died 1942), Canadian author and poet best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables
date not known:
- Ursula Bethell (died 1945) (New Zealand)
- Gordon Bottomley (died 1948), English poet known particularly for his verse dramas
- A. H. Reginald Buller (died 1944), a British/Canadian mycologist mainly known as a researcher of fungi and wheat rust who also wrote limericks, some of which were published in Punch
- Stanley de Vere Alexander Julius
- Josephine Peabody