Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Frederick James Furnivall founds the Chaucer Society Works published Canada James Anderson. Sawney's Letters, or Cariboo Rhymes. Charles Mair, Dreamland and Other Poems, Canada United Kingdom William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in Common English Robert Browning: Poetical Works, six volumes 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 George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans), The Spanish Gypsy William Morris, The Earthly Paradise, Parts 1 and 2 (Part 3 1869 [although dated 1870], Part 4 1870; complete work in 10 volumes 1872) 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 Algernon Charles Swinburne, Siena United States Benjamin Paul Blood, The Colonnades Phoebe Cary, Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love Adah Isaacs Menken, Infelicia Joaquin Miller, Specimens John Rollin Ridge, Poems Edward Rowland Sill, The Hermitage and Other Poems William Wetmore Story, Graffiti d'Italia Other Charles Baudelaire, Curiosités esthétiques, posthumously published, France Comte de Lautréamont, pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, first "chant" of Les Chants de Maldoror, a set of prose poems full of Gothic horror (reprinted in a book of miscellaneous poems, Parfums de l'áme 1869; first published in full in 1874); France 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: Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (died 1920), poet and leader of the Dervish movement Kavi Kant (died 1923), Indian, Gujarati-language writer and poet, writer of khandakavyas (narrative poems) and ghazals K. C. Kesava Pillai (died 1914), Indian, Malayalam-language musician