page_title: 1861 in poetry
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1861 in poetry / Births
caption_attribution_description: Tomb of Elizabeth Barrett Browning on the Cimitero degli Inglesi, Florence.
context_page_description: Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
context_section_description: Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  January 7 – Louise Imogen Guiney (died 1920), American poet and essayist
  January 15 – Saint-Pol-Roux, pen name of Paul Roux (died 1940), French
  January 22 – Maurice Hewlett (died 1923), English historical novelist, poet and essayist
  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 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
caption: Elizabeth Barrett Browning tomb in Florence
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