1868 in Poetry - Births

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " 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
• 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:
  • Robert Crawford (Australian poet) (died 1930), Australian
  • K. C. Kesava Pillai (died 1914), Indian, Malayalam-language musician and poet
  • Ahmed Shawqi أحمد شوقي (died 1932), Egyptian poet and playwright