for her poems and performances that celebrate her aboriginal heritage, including the frequently anthologized "The Song My Paddle Sings" April 7 – Frederick George Scott (died 1944), Canadian April 15 – Bliss Carman (died 1929), Canadian poet May 7 – Rabindranath Tagore (died 1941), Bengali poet in India, Brahmo Samaj (syncretic Hindu monotheist) philosopher, visual artist, playwright, composer and novelist whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; 1913 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature July 26 – Vazha-Pshavela (died 1915), Georgian poet September 5 – Walter Alexander Raleigh (died 1922), Scottish scholar, poet and author September 23 – Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (died 1907), English novelist, poet and teacher writing poetry under the pseudonym Anodos (taken from George MacDonald); great-grandniece of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and great niece of Sara Coleridge October 16 – Arthur Alfred Lynch (died 1934), Australian-born, Irish and British civil engineer, physician, journalist, author, soldier, anti-imperialist and polymath serving as a member of the House of Commons after being convicted of treason, sentenced to death, having his sentence reduced and then being released (for having recruited volunteers for the Boer side during the Boer War in South Africa), later raising his own Irish battalion towards the end of World War I October 21 – Charles Van Lerberghe (died 1907), French November 10 – Amy Levy (died 1889), English poet and novelist November 17 – Archibald Lampman (died 1899), Canadian Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: March 10 (February 26 O.S.) - Taras Shevchenko, 47 (born 1814), Ukrainian poet and artist June 29 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 56 (born 1806), English poet and poet and wife of Robert Browning November 13 – Arthur Hugh Clough, 42 (born 1819), English poet and brother of suffragist Anne Jemima Clough See also 19th century in poetry 19th century in literature List of years in poetry List of years in literature Victorian literature French literature of the 19th century Poetry Notes Poetry 19th-century poetry