1864 in poetry

Works published

Charles Heavysege:
- The Owl (Montreal)
- The Dark Huntsman (a dream) (Montreal)

William Allingham:
- Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland^[1]
- Editor, The Ballad Book, anthology^[1]
Robert Browning, Dramatis Personae,^[1] including "Rabbi Ben Ezra" and "Caliban upon Setebos"
Edward Hartley Dewart, Selections from Canadian Poets, the first anthology of Canadian poetry in English^[2]
Samuel Ferguson, Lays of the Western Gael
Robert Lowry, "Beautiful River"
George MacDonald, Adela Cathcart, fairy tales, parables and poems^[1]
Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Poems, including a memoir by Derwent Coleridge, posthumously published^[1]
William Brighty Rands, anonymously published, Lilliput Levee, for children^[1]
Joseph Skipsey, The Collier Lad and other Lyrics
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Enoch Arden^[1]

George Henry Baker, Poems of the War^[3]
William Cullen Bryant:
- Thirty Poems
- Hymns^[3]
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^[3]
John Greenleaf Whittier, In War Time, United States^[3]

Aleardo Aleardi, I fuochi sull'Appennibo, Italy
Alfred de Vigny, Les Destinées, philosophical poems on discipline and social order; posthumously published (died 1863), France

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Births

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April 8 – Orelia Key Bell (died 1959), American
May 4 – Richard Hovey (died 1900), American
February 17 – Andrew "Banjo" Paterson (died 1941), Australian writer and poet
April 30 (April 18 O.S.) – Juhan Liiv (died 1913), Estonian
September 18 – Itō Sachio 伊藤佐千夫, pen name of Itō Kojirō (died 1913), Japanese, Meiji period tanka poet and novelist (surname: Itō)
September 29 – Miguel de Unamuno (died 1936), Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher
November 26 – Herman Gorter (died 1927), Dutch poet and socialist
November 30 – Sydney Jephcott (died 1951), Australian

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 13 – Stephen Foster (born 1826), American songwriter
January 29 – Lucy Aikin (born 1781), English writer
February 2 – Adelaide Anne Procter (born 1825), English poet, a daughter of poet Bryan Procter
April 18 – Juris Alunāns (born 1832), Latvian philologist and poet
May 20 – John Clare (born 1793), English "peasant poet"
July 4 – Nathaniel Hawthorne (born 1804), American writer
July 6 – George Pope Morris (born 1802), American editor, poet and songwriter
September 17 – Walter Savage Landor (born 1775), English writer and poet
November 3 – Gonçalves Dias (born 1823), Brazilian (shipwreck)

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Events