1881 in poetry

, 1881: "Admit that Homer sometimes nods, That poets do write trash, Our Bard has written "Balder Dead," And also Balder-dash" • Frederick James Furnivall founds the Browning Society ==Works published in English==

===Canada=== • Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, Poetical Works, posthumously published, Canada • Pamela Vining Yule. Poems of the Heart and Home. ===United Kingdom=== • Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, The Love Sonnets of Proteus (see also Sonnets and Songs 1875, Love Lyrics 1892) • Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper, writing as "Arran and Islan Leigh", Bellerophon, and Other Poems • Christina Rossetti, A Pageant, and other Poems • Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ballads and Sonnets, • Ina Coolbrith, A Perfect Day • Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, including poetry ==Works published in other languages==

• Alexander Baumgartner, Festspiel zur Calderonfeier, Switzerland • François Coppée, Conies en tiers, France • Victor Hugo, ''Les Quatres vents de l'esprit'', France • Jorge Isaacs, Saulo, 1st canto (no more published), Colombia • Helena Nyblom, Digte ("Poems"), Denmark ==Births==

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • January 9 – Lascelles Abercrombie (died 1938), English poet and literary critic called the Georgian Laureate and one of the "Dymock poets" • February 13 – Eleanor Farjeon (died 1965), English author and poet • February 15 – Piaras Béaslaí (died 1965), Irish writer and poet • February 17 – Puran Singh (died 1931), Indian, writing Indian poetry in English • March 6 – John Cournos, born Ivan Grigorievich Korshun (died 1966), Russian-American Imagist poet, but better known for his novels, short stories, essays, criticism and translations of Russian literature (pen name: John Courtney) • April 4 – Gertrud von Puttkamer, born Gertrud Günther (died 1944), German homoerotic poet (pen name: Marie-Madeleine) • April 6 – Furnley Maurice (died 1942), Australian • April 16 – Alice Corbin Henderson (died 1949), American poet • May 18 – Alan Edward Mulgan (died 1962), New Zealand • June 10 – Jaime Sabartés (died 1968), Catalan Spanish poet and longtime secretary to Pablo Picasso • August 1 – Aizu Yaichi 会津 八一 (died 1956), Japanese poet, calligrapher and historian (surname: Aizu) • August 10 – Witter Bynner (died 1968), American poet, writer and scholar • August 20 – Edgar Albert Guest (died 1959), prolific American poet • September 16 – Clive Bell (died 1964), English critic associated with the Bloomsbury group • October 30 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts (died 1941), American novelist and poet • November 15: • Franklin Pierce Adams (died 1960), American columnist (pen name: F.P.A.), writer and wit, part of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and 1930s whose newspaper column introduced the public to many poets and writers • Masamune Atsuo 正宗敦夫 (died 1958), Japanese poet and academic (surname: Masamune) • November 16 – Ernest O'Ferrall (died 1925), Australian poet and short-story writer (pen name: Kodak) • December 8 – Padraic Colum (died 1972), Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, collector of folklore and a leading figure of the Celtic Revival • December 24 – Lady Margaret Sackville (died 1963), English poet and children's author • Also: • Swami Ananda Acharya (died 1945), Indian poet who wrote Indian poetry in English • Deepakba Desai (died 1955), Indian, Gujarati-language woman poet who wrote khandakavyas • Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar (died 1953), Indian, Gujarati-language, Parsi poet • Sotiris Skipis (died 1951), Greek ==Deaths==

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • January 30 – Arthur O'Shaughnessy (born 1844), 36, British poet • August 2 – Marcus Clarke (born 1846), 35, Australian novelist and poet • September 7 – Sidney Lanier (born 1842), 39, American musician and poet • October 12 – Josiah Gilbert Holland (born 1819), 62, American novelist and poet • November 1 – Jacques Perk (born 1859), 22, Dutch poet • November 4 – Estella Hijmans-Hertzveld (born 1837), 44, Dutch poet • Also – Mangkunegara IV (born 1809), Javanese ruler of Mangkunegaran and poet ==See also==