Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published
- James Anderson. Sawney's Letters, or Cariboo Rhymes.
- Charles Mair, Dreamland and Other Poems, Canada
- William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in Common English
- Robert Browning:
- Poetical Works, six volumes
- 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
- George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans), The Spanish Gypsy
- William Morris, The Earthly Paradise, Parts 1 and 2 (Part 3 1869 [although dated 1870], Part 4 1870; complete work in 10 volumes 1872)
- 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
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, Siena
Other
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 10 – Ozaki KÃ
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- 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 ãÃÂÃÂ
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- December 29 – Kitamura Tokoku Ã¥ÂÂæÂÂéÂÂè°·, 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
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
See also
Notes