# 1868 in poetry

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

## Events

* Frederick James Furnivall founds the Chaucer Society

## Works published
### Canada

* James Anderson. Sawney's Letters, or Cariboo Rhymes.
* Charles Mair, Dreamland and Other Poems, Canada

### 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 (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

### 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 (reprinted in a book of miscellaneous poems, Parfums de l'áme 1869; first published in full in 1874); France

## Births

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

## Deaths

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)