This article covers 1874 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Works published in English
Works published in other languages
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 16 – Robert William Service, "the Bard of the Yukon" (died 1958), Scots-Canadian poet, writer of "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; spends most of her life in France
- February 7 – Olive Custance (died 1944), English poet
- February 9 – Amy Lowell (died 1925), American poet of the imagist school, posthumous winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926
- February 20 – Gordon Bottomley (died 1948), English poet known particularly for his verse dramas
- February 22 – Kyoshi Takahama é«Âæµ èÂÂÃ¥ÂÂ, pen name of Kiyoshi Takahama (died 1959), Japanese, ShÃ
Âwa period poet; close disciple of Masaoka Shiki (surname: Takahama)
- March – Stanley de Vere Alexander Julius (died 1930), English military officer and poet
- March 26 – 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
- May 30 – Josephine Preston Peabody (died 1922), American poet and playwright
- June 20 – Trumbull Stickney (died 1904), American classical scholar and poet best known for his sonnets
- July 7 – José MarÃÂa Eguren (died 1942), Peruvian symbolist poet
- July 29 – August Stramm (killed in action 1915), German Expressionist poet and playwright
- August 19 – A. H. Reginald Buller (died 1944), British/Canadian mycologist mainly known as a researcher of fungi and wheat rust; also writer of limericks, some of which are published in Punch
- September 8 – Yone Noguchi éÂÂå£米次é (died 1947), Japanese poet, fiction writer, essayist and literary critic in both English and Japanese; father of the sculptor Isamu Noguchi
- October 6 – Ursula Bethell (died 1945) (New Zealand)
- November 27 – Ridgely Torrence (died 1950), American poet and editor
- November 30 – Lucy Maud Montgomery (died 1942), Canadian author and poet best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables
- Also:
- Kalapi (died 1900), Indian, Gujarati-language poet
- R. H. Long (died 1948), Australian
- J. W. Gordon (Jim Grahame) (died 1949), Australian
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
See also
Notes