1860 in poetry

Works published in English

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems Before Congress^[2]
Samuel Lover, Metrical Tales, and Other Poems, illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne, Kenney Meadows and others^[2]
Coventry Patmore, Faithful for Ever (The Angel in the House, Volume 3; see also The Betrothal 1854, The Espousals 1856, The Victories of Love 1863)^[2]
John Leicester Warren, writing under the pen name "George F. Preston", Ballads and Metrical Sketches^[2]

William Turner Coggeshall, editor, Poets and Poetry of the West, anthology^[3]
Paul Hamilton Hayne, Avolio: A Legend of the Island of Cos^[3]
Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Professor at the Breakfast-Table, fiction, nonfiction and verse^[3]
William Dean Howells and John James Piatt, Poems of Two Friends^[3]
Adrien Rouquette, L'Antoniade, ou la solitude avec Dieu^[3]
Edmund Clarence Stedman, Poems, Lyrical and Idyllic^[3]
Henry Timrod, Poems^[3]
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, third edition,^[3] including "Calamus" poems
John Greenleaf Whittier, Home Ballads, Poems, and Lyrics^[3]

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Works published in other languages

Charles Baudelaire, Les paradis artificiels ("Artificial Paradise"), France
Gul Bakhsh, Kukikatar Puthi (কুকি কাটার পুঁথি), Bengali^[4]
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Poésies inédites^[5] (posthumous)
Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Tilottama Sambhab Kabya (তিলোত্তমাসম্ভব কাব্য, "Birth of Tilottama"), Bengali

Births

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January 10 – Charles G. D. Roberts (died 1943), Canadian poet and writer known as the "Father of Canadian Poetry" because he serves as an inspiration for other writers of his time; also known as one of the "Confederation poets" (together with his cousin Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott)
June 1 – Wilfred Campbell (died 1918), Canadian
August 5 – John Philip Bourke (died 1914), Australian
September 6 – Lorentzos Mavilis (died 1912), Greek
September 14 – Hamlin Garland, (died 1940), American novelist, poet, essayist and short story writer
September 18 – Clinton Scollard (died 1932), American
October 6 – Rosamund Marriott Watson, born Rosamund Ball and writing as Graham R. Tomson (died 1911), English
December 8 – Amanda McKittrick Ros, born Anna McKittrick (died 1939), Irish novelist and poet noted for her purple style
December 12 – Harriet Monroe (died 1936), American editor, scholar, literary critic and patron of the arts, best known as the founder and longtime editor of Poetry magazine
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- Akshay Kumar Boral (died 1919), Indian, Bengali-language poet^[6]
- Helena Jane Coleman (died 1953), Canadian music teacher, poet and writer
- Nagesh Vishvanath Pai (died 1920), Indian poet and fiction writer^[6]

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Deaths

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April 6 – James Kirke Paulding (born 1778),^[7] American novelist, poet, writer for and sometime owner of Salamagundi magazine and a United States Secretary of the Navy
August 25 – Johan Ludvig Heiberg (born 1791), Danish
November 24 – George Croly (born 1780), Irish-born poet, novelist, historian, and clergyman

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