1868 in poetry
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Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada
- James Anderson. Sawney's Letters, or Cariboo Rhymes.
- Charles Mair, Dreamland and Other Poems'', Canada
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- 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, The Spanish Gypsy
- William Morris, The Earthly Paradise, Parts 1 and 2
- Richard Lewis Nettleship, City of Pygmies
- Menella Bute Smedley and Fanny Hart, published anonymously "By two friends", Poems Written for a Child
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, Siena
United States">American poetry">United States
- Benjamin Paul Blood, The Colonnades
- Phoebe Cary, Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love
- Adah Isaacs Menken, Infelicia
- Joaquin Miller, Specimens
- John Rollin Ridge, Poems
- Edward Rowland Sill, The Hermitage and Other Poems
- William Wetmore Story, Graffiti d'Italia
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 ; France
Births
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- January 10 - Ozaki Kōyō 尾崎 紅葉, pen name of Ozaki Tokutaro 尾崎 徳太郎, novelist, essayist and haiku poet
- May 14 - Mary Eliza Fullerton, Australian
- August 6 - Paul Claudel, French
- August 23 - Edgar Lee Masters, American poet, biographer, dramatist and lawyer
- October 29 - Robert Crawford, Australian
- December 25 - Ahmed Shawqi أحمد شوقي, Egyptian poet and playwright
- December 29 - Kitamura Tokoku 北村透谷, pen-name of Kitamura Montaro, Japanese, late Meiji period poet, essayist and a founder of the modern Japanese romantic literary movement
- Also:
- * Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somali religious and patriotic leader and poet
- * Kavi Kant, Indian, Gujarati-language writer and poet, writer of khandakavyas and ghazals
- * K. C. Kesava Pillai, Indian, Malayalam-language musician and poet
Deaths
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