1861 in Poetry - Births

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• January 15 – Saint-Pol-Roux, pen name of Paul Roux (died 1940), French
• January 23 – Katharine Tynan (died 1931), Irish-born novelist, poet and writer who, after her marriage in 1898, usually wrote under the names "Katharine Tynan Hinkson", "Katharine Tynan-Hinkson" or "Katharine Hinkson-Tynan"
• March 10 – Pauline Johnson, also known as "E. Pauline Johnson" and "Tekahionwake" (died 1913), Canadian known for her poems and performances that celebrated her aboriginal heritage, including the frequently anthologized "The Song My Paddle Sings"
• April 15 – Bliss Carman died 1929), Canadian poet
• May 7 – Rabindranath Tagore, 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
• September 5 – Walter Alexander Raleigh (died 1922), Scottish scholar, poet and author
• September 23 – Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, (died 1907), English novelist, poet and teacher who wrote poetry under the pseudonym Anodos, taken from George MacDonald; great-grandniece niece of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the 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 who served 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). He later raised his own Irish battalion towards the end of World War I.
• October 21 – Charles Van Lerberghe (died 1907), French
• November 17 – Archibald Lampman, (died 1899), Canadian

• Also:
  • Louise Imogen Guiney, (died 1920), American poet and essayist
  • Maurice Henry Hewlett (died 1923), English historical novelist, poet and essayist
  • Amy Levy, English poet and novelist
  • Frederick George Scott, Canadian