1864 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.Events
- April - Charles Baudelaire leaves Paris for Belgium in the hope of resolving his financial difficulties.
Works published
Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada
- Charles Heavysege:
- * The Owl
- * The Dark Huntsman
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- William Allingham:
- * Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland
- * Editor, The Ballad Book, anthology
- Robert Browning, Dramatis Personae, including "Rabbi Ben Ezra" and "Caliban upon Setebos"
- Edward Hartley Dewart, Selections from Canadian Poets, the first anthology of Canadian poetry in English
- Robert Lowry, "Beautiful River"
- George MacDonald, Adela Cathcart, fairy tales, parables and poems
- Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Poems, including a memoir by Derwent Coleridge, posthumously published
- William Brighty Rands, anonymously published, Lilliput Levee, for children
- Joseph Skipsey, The Collier Lad and other Lyrics
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, Enoch Arden
United States">American poetry">United States
- George Henry Baker, Poems of the War
- William Cullen Bryant:
- * Thirty Poems
- * Hymns
- Laura Redden Searing, Idyls of Battle and Poems of the Rebellion
- Edmund Clarence Stedman, Alice of Monmouth: An Idyll of the Great War and Other Poems
- John Greenleaf Whittier, In War Time, United States
Other
- Aleardo Aleardi, I fuochi sull'Appennibo, Italy
- Alfred de Vigny, Les Destinées, philosophical poems on discipline and social order; posthumously published, France
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- April 8 - Orelia Key Bell, American
- May 4 - Richard Hovey, American
- February 17 - Andrew "Banjo" Paterson, Australian writer and poet
- April 30 - Juhan Liiv, Estonian
- August 16 - Mary Gilmore, Australian poet and journalist
- September 18 - Itō Sachio 伊藤佐千夫, pen name of Itō Kojirō, Japanese, Meiji period tanka poet and novelist
- September 29 - Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher
- November 26 - Herman Gorter, Dutch poet and socialist
- November 30 - Sydney Jephcott, Australian
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 13 - Stephen Foster, American songwriter
- January 29 - Lucy Aikin, English writer
- February 2 - Adelaide Anne Procter, English poet, a daughter of poet Bryan Procter
- April 18 - Juris Alunāns, Latvian philologist and poet
- May 20 - John Clare, English "peasant poet"
- July 4 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer
- July 6 - George Pope Morris, American editor, poet and songwriter
- September 17 - Walter Savage Landor, English writer and poet
- November 3 - Gonçalves Dias, Brazilian
