1871 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
	… 1861 . 1862 . 1863 . 1864 . 1865 . 1866 . 1867 …; 1868 1869 1870 -1871- 1872 1873 1874; … 1875 . 1876 . 1877 . 1878 . 1879 . 1880 . 1881 … In literature: 1868 1869 1870 -1871- 1872 1873 1874
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Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, including "Jabberwocky"
Edward Lear, Nonsense Songs, including "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat"
Thomas Maitland (i.e., Robert Williams Buchanan) attacks Dante Gabriel Rossetti in "The Fleshly School of Poetry" in Contemporary Review (October); and Rossetti replies in "The Stealthy School of Criticism" in Athenaeum (December)
Joaquin Miller, Songs of the Sierras
Arthur Rimbaud, Le bateau ivre (The Drunken Boat)
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Songs before Sunrise
Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Last Tournament"
Walt Whitman, Passage to India

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

April 16 – John Millington Synge (died 1909), Irish dramatist, poet, prose writer, collector of folklore and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival and a co-founder of the Abbey Theatre
June 17 – James Weldon Johnson (died 1938), African-American author, poet, early civil rights activist, and prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance
July 3 – William Henry Davies (died 1940), Welsh-born poet and writer who spent most of his life as a tramp in the United States and United Kingdom, but became known as one of the most popular poets of his time
September 2 – John Le Gay Brereton (died 1933), Australian poet, critic and academic
September 9 – Ralph Hodgson (died 1962), British
October 30 – Paul Valéry (died 1945), French philosopher, author and Symbolist poet who also wrote essays and aphorisms on art, history, letters, music and current events
November 1 – Stephen Crane (died 1900), American novelist, poet and journalist