1881 in Poetry

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

January 9 - Lascelles Abercrombie (died 1938), British poet and literary critic called the Georgian Laureateand one of the "Dymock poets"
February 13 – Eleanor Farjeon (died 1965) English author and poet
April 6 – Furnley Maurice (died 1942), Australian
April 16 – Alice Corbin Henderson (died 1949), American poet
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) was an 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 (under the pen name F.P.A.), writer, and wit, part of the famous 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)
December 8 – Padraic Colum (died 1972) Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, collector of folklore and one of the leading figures of the Celtic Revival

Also:
- Swami Ananda Acharya (died 1945), Indian poet who wrote Indian poetry in English
- John Cournos (died 1966), Russian-American Imagist poet, but better known for his novels, short stories, essays, criticism and translations of Russian literature; wrote under the pen name "John Courtney"
- Deepakba Desai (died 1955), Indian, Gujarati-language woman poet who wrote khandakavyas
- Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar (died 1953), Indian, Gujarati-language, Parsi poet

- Alan Mulgan (died 1962), New Zealand
- Ernest O'Ferrall (died 1925), Australian, poet who wrote under the pseudonym "Kodak"
- Jaime Sabartés (died 1968), Spanish poet and longtime secretary to Pablo Picasso
- Puran Singh (died 1931), Indian, writing Indian poetry in English