1868 in poetry
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Events
- Frederick James Furnivall founds the Chaucer Society
Works published
Canada
- James Anderson. Sawney's Letters, or Cariboo Rhymes.[1]
- Charles Mair, Dreamland and Other Poems, Canada[2]
United Kingdom
- William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in Common English[3]
- Robert Browning:
- Poetical Works, six volumes[3]
- The Ring and the Book, Volumes 1 and 2 this year; a total of 12 books and over 21,000 lines published this year and in 1869[3]
- George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans), The Spanish Gypsy[3]
- William Morris, The Earthly Paradise, Parts 1 and 2 (Part 3 1869 [although dated 1870], Part 4 1870; complete work in 10 volumes 1872)[3]
- Richard Lewis Nettleship, City of Pygmies (in Greek) (awarded Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse, 1868)
- Menella Bute Smedley and Fanny Hart, published anonymously "By two friends", Poems Written for a Child[3]
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, Siena[3]
United States
- Benjamin Paul Blood, The Colonnades[4]
- Phoebe Cary, Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love[4]
- Adah Isaacs Menken, Infelicia[4]
- Joaquin Miller, Specimens[4]
- John Rollin Ridge, Poems[4]
- Edward Rowland Sill, The Hermitage and Other Poems[4]
- William Wetmore Story, Graffiti d'Italia[4]
Other
- Charles Baudelaire, Curiosités esthétiques, posthumously published, France
- Comte de Lautréamont, pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, first "chant" of Les Chants de Maldoror, a set of prose poems full of Gothic horror (reprinted in a book of miscellaneous poems, Parfums de l'áme 1869; first published in full in 1874); France[5]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 10 â Ozaki KÅyÅ å°¾å´ ç´ è, pen name of Ozaki Tokutaro å°¾å´ å¾³å¤ªé (died 1903), novelist, essayist and haiku poet (surname: Ozaki)
- May 14 â Mary Eliza Fullerton (died 1946), Australian
- August 6 - Paul Claudel (died 1955), French
- August 23 â Edgar Lee Masters (died 1950), American poet, biographer, dramatist and lawyer
- October 29 â Robert Crawford (died 1930), Australian
- December 25 â Ahmed Shawqi Ø£Ø٠د Ø´ÙÙÙ (died 1932), Egyptian poet and playwright
- December 29 â Kitamura Tokoku åæéè°·, pen-name of Kitamura Montaro (died 1894), Japanese, late Meiji period poet, essayist and a founder of the modern Japanese romantic literary movement (surname: Kitamura)
- Also:
- Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (died 1920), poet and leader of the Dervish movement
- Kavi Kant (died 1923), Indian, Gujarati-language writer and poet, writer of khandakavyas (narrative poems) and ghazals
- K. C. Kesava Pillai (died 1914), Indian, Malayalam-language musician and poet[6]
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 29 â Susanna Hawkins (born 1787), Scottish
- April 26 â James Lionel Michael (born 1824), Australian
- June 10 â Charles Harpur (born 1813), Australian
- August 10 â Adah Isaacs Menken (born 1835), American actress, painter and poet
- September 11 â Maria James (born 1793), American poet and domestic servant
- October 13 â Tachibana Akemi, æ©æ覧 (born 1812), Japanese poet and classical scholar (surname: Tachibana)
