1868 in poetry

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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

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]

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]

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

January 10 – Ozaki Kōyō 尾崎紅葉, pen name of Ozaki Tokutaro 尾崎徳太郎 (died 1903), novelist, essayist and haiku poet (surname: Ozaki)
May 14 – Mary Eliza Fullerton (died 1946), Australian
August 6 - Paul Claudel (died 1955), French
August 23 – Edgar Lee Masters (died 1950), American poet, biographer, dramatist and lawyer
October 29 – Robert Crawford (died 1930), Australian
December 25 – Ahmed Shawqi أحمد شوقي (died 1932), Egyptian poet and playwright
December 29 – Kitamura Tokoku 北村透谷, 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]

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

March 29 – Susanna Hawkins (born 1787), Scottish
April 26 – James Lionel Michael (born 1824), Australian
June 10 – Charles Harpur (born 1813), Australian
August 10 – Adah Isaacs Menken (born 1835), American actress, painter and poet
September 11 – Maria James (born 1793), American poet and domestic servant
October 13 – Tachibana Akemi, 橘曙覧 (born 1812), Japanese poet and classical scholar (surname: Tachibana)

^ Carole Gerson and Gwendolyn Davies, ed. Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart NCL, 1994.
^ Keith, W. J., "Poetry in English: 1867-1918", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
^ "Jean Lemaire de Belges" article, p 453, in France, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-866125-8
^ Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009