1883 in poetry

• William Allingham, The Fairies, including "Up the airy mountain ..."; reprinted from Poems 1850^[1]
• Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, The Wind and the Whirlwind^[1]
• Robert Bridges, Prometheus the Firegiver^[1]
• Robert Browning, Jocoseria
• George Meredith, Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth^[1]
• Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Century of Roundels^[1]

• Francis James Child, editor, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, an anthology published in five volumes from this year to 1898^[2]
• Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Decorative Plaques^[2]
• Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus", written in aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for erection of the Statue of LibertyinNew York Harbor
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Michael Angelo, posthumously published^[2]
• James Whitcomb Riley, The Old Swimmin'-Hole and 'Leven More Poems^[2]
• John Greenleaf Whittier, The Bay of Seven Islands^[2]
• Jones Very, Poems, published posthumously^[2]
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Poems of Passion^[2]

• Gabriele D'Annunzio, L'intermezzo di rime, Italy
• Mihail Eminescu, Luceafărul, Romania^[3]
• Victor Hugo, La Légende des siècles, third series (first series 1859, second series 1877), France^[4]
• Jan Neruda, Prosté motivy, Czechia
• Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, History of the Russian State from Gostomysl to Timashev, Russian parody published posthumously
• Paul Verlaine, in November publishes an influential essay on Stéphane Mallarmé, which is later reprinted in the book Les Poetès maudits; France^[5]
• Albert Verwey, Persephone, Netherlands

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

• January 1 – Charles Badger Clark (died 1957), American
• January 6 – Khalil Gibran (died 1931), Lebanese American poet and artist
• January 21 – Olav Aukrust (died 1929), Norwegian poet and teacher
• February 7 – K. V. Simon, (died 1944), Indian Malayalam-language poet^[6]
• February 18
  • Nikos Kazantzakis (died 1957), Greek author
  • Jessie Litchfield, (died 1956), Australian author
• March 13 – Kōtarō Takamura 高村 光太郎 (died 1956), Japanese poet and sculptor; son of sculptor Kōun Takamura
• March 9 – Umberto Saba né Poli (died 1957), Italian poet and fiction writer
• March 16 – Ethel Anderson née Campbell (died 1958), English-born Australian
• March 27 (March 15 O.S.) – Marie Under (died 1980), Estonian
• May 7 – Anna Wickham, née Edith Alice Mary Harper, aka Edith Hepburn and John Oland (committed suicide 1947), English poet brought up in Australia
• June 27 – Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy (died 1929), English Anglican priest and poet
• August 11 – Ernst Stadler (killed 1914inWorld War I), German Expressionist poet
• September 16 – T. E. Hulme (killed 1917inWorld War I), influential English poetry critic
• September 17 – William Carlos Williams (died 1963), American
• November 10 – Arthur Davison Ficke (died 1945), American
• December 10 – Alfred Kreymborg (died 1966), American poet, novelist, playwright, literary editor and anthologist
• December 12 – William Baylebridge (died 1942)), Australian poet and short-story writer
• September 14 – Marjorie Pickthall (died 1922), English-born Canadian

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

• January 5 – Charles Tompson (born 1806), Australian public servant said to be the first published Australian-born poet
• May 23 – Cyprian Norwid, 61 (born 1821), Polish-born
• June 14
  • Charles Timothy Brooks, 96, American poet and translator
  • Edward Fitzgerald, 74, English poet and translator, best known for his translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
• After 1883 – George Moses Horton (born c. 1797), African-American

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