1869 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- October 5 - Model, poet and artist Elizabeth Siddal is exhumed by Charles Augustus Howell at Highgate Cemetery in London in order to recover the manuscript of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems buried with her.
Works published in English
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, Volumes 3 and 4
- C. S. Calverley, Theocritus Translated into English Verse
- A. H. Clough, Poems and Prose Remains
- W. S. Gilbert, Bab Ballads, first published in Fun, a comic journal
- John Keble, Miscellaneous Poems
- William Morris, The Earthly Paradise, Part 3
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poems
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Holy Grail, and Other Poems, with "The Coming of Arthur," "The Holy Grail," "Pelleas and Ettarre," and "The Passing of Arthur"
United States">American poetry">United States
- William Cullen Bryant:
- * Hymns
- * Some Notices of the Life and Writings of Fitz-Greene Halleck
- William Dean Howells, No Love Lost: A Romance of Travel
- James Russell Lowell, Under the Willows and Other Poems
- Joaquin Miller, Joaquin et al.
- Edmund Clarence Stedman, The Blameless Prince and Other Poems
- John Greenleaf Whittier, ''Among the Hills''
Other
- Dutt Family, Dutt Family Album, London: Longmans, Green and Co.; India, Indian poetry in English
- Charles Heavysege, Saul: A Drama in Three Parts, second edition, revised ; Canada
- Henry Kendall, Leaves from Australian Forests, Australia
Works published in other languages
France">French poetry">France
- Charles Baudelaire, published posthumously :
- * L'Art romantique
- * Le Spleen de Paris/Petits Poémes en Prose, 51 short prose poems
- Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
- Paul Verlaine, ''Les Fêtes galantes''
Other
- Jan Neruda, Zpěvy páteční, Czech
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- February 11 - Else Lasker-Schüler, German
- May 12 - Frank Morton, English-born Australian poet and journalist
- May 23 - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, née Ward, African-American author, poet and journalist
- June 10 - Arthur Shearly Cripps, English Anglican priest, short story writer and poet spending most of his life in Southern Rhodesia
- July 8 - William Vaughn Moody, American
- August 6:
- * Marie E. J. Pitt, Australian poet, journalist and political activist
- * David McKee Wright, Irish-born poet and journalist, active in New Zealand and Australia
- August 7 - E. J. Brady, Australian poet, wharf clerk, farmer and journalist; founder of the artist colony at Mallacoota, Victoria in Australia
- August 10 - Laurence Binyon, English poet, dramatist and art scholar
- August 21 - Will H. Ogilvie, Scottish-Australian narrative poet and horseman
- October 6 - Bo Bergman, Swedish writer and critic
- November 15
- * Charlotte Mew, English
- * Arnold Wall, Ceylonese-born New Zealand philologist, poet, botanist and radio broadcaster
- November 20 - Zinaida Gippius, Russian poet, novelist and playwright
- December 1 - George Sterling, American
- December 22 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
- December 30 - Stephen Leacock, English-born Canadian humorist and political scientist
- Also:
- * Miltiadis Malakasis, Greek
- * Balawantrai Thakore, the first Imagist and formalist poet in Indian, Gujarati-language literature; introduced into Gujarati the sonnet and prithvi meter, "which is closest to English blank verse", according to ''The Handbook of Twentieth-Century Indian Literature''
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 30 - Charlotte Alington Barnard, English poet and composer of ballads and hymns
- February 15 - Mirza Ghalib, classical Urdu and Persian poet from India
- February 28 - Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer, poet and politician
- November 3 - Andreas Kalvos, Greek