1868 in poetry

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William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in Common English^[1]
Robert Browning:
- Poetical Works, six volumes^[1]
- 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^[1]
George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans), The Spanish Gypsy^[1]
William Morris, The Earthly Paradise, Parts 1 and 2 (Part 3 1869 [although dated 1870], Part 4 1870; complete work in 10 volumes 1872)^[1]
Richard Lewis Nettleship, City of Pygmies (in Greek) (awarded Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse, 1868)
Menella Smedley and Fanny Hart, published anonymously "By two friends", Poems Written for a Child^[1]
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Siena^[1]

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 23 – Edgar Lee Masters (died 1950), American
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)

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)

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ Keith, W. J., "Poetry in English: 1867-1918", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
^ 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