1868 in poetry
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[edit] Events
- Frederick James Furnivall founds the Chaucer Society
[edit] Works published
- Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, in 12 Books and over 21,000 lines (1868-69)
- William Morris, The Earthly Paradise, I (completed in 1870)
- Richard Lewis Nettleship, City of Pygmies (in Greek) (awarded Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse, 1868)
[edit] Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 14 – Mary Eliza Fullerton (died 1946), Australian
- August 23 – Edgar Lee Masters (died 1950), American
- date not known ndash; Robert Crawford (Australian poet) (died 1930), Australian
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- 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
- October 13 – Tachibana Akemi, 橘曙覧 (born 1812), Japanese poet and classical scholar (surname: Tachibana)
