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Overview of the events of 1868 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France ).
Events
Works published
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]
Other
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:
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
See also
Notes
^ 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
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g Cox, Michael, ed. (2004).
The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-860634-6 .
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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
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