The Idiot Boy
- A Tale Founded on Fact, a poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon published in The Literary Gazette in 1823 but appearing in the 1825 edition of The Improvisatrice; and Other Poems as 'The Idiot Boy. Founded on Fact.'
- The Idiot Boy, a poem by William Wordsworth.
- The Idiot Boy by Rudyard Kipling, which is a parody of Wordsworth’s She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways.