1858 in poetry
# 1858 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

## Events

* February 20 – Giacomo Meyerbeer pays Mathilde Heine 4,500 francs not to publish four poems by her late husband Heinrich Heine.
* Charles Baudelaire's study on Théophile Gautier is published in Revue contemporaine.

## Works published

### United Kingdom

* Cecil Frances Alexander, Hymns Descriptive and Devotional for the Use of Schools
* Matthew Arnold, Merope
* William Barnes, Hwomely Rhymes: A second collection of poems of rural life in the Dorset Dialect
* Elizabeth Rundle Charles, The Voice of Christian Life in Song
* Arthur Hugh Clough, "Amours de Voyage", English poet published in The Atlantic Monthly in the United States (reprinted in the author's posthumous Poems 1862)
* William Johnson Cory, Ionica
* Charles Kingsley, Andromedia, and Other Poems
* Walter Savage Landor, Dry Sticks, Fagoted
* William Morris, The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems dedicated to Dante Gabriel Rossetti; the author's first book
* Adelaide Anne Procter, Legends and Lyrics, first series, (1858–61), including "The Lost Chord", set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan
* Catherine Winkworth, Lyra Germanica: Second Series (see also Lyra Germanica 1855)

### United States

* Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth
* Arthur Hugh Clough, "Amours de Voyage", English poet published in The Atlantic Monthly in the United States (reprinted in the author's posthumous Poems 1862)
* James T. Fields, A Few Verses for a Few Friends
* William J. Grayson, The Country
* Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, essays
* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems
* Frances Harper, "Bury Me in a Free Land", November 20

### Other in English

* Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian Ballads, Montreal, Canada

### Other languages

* Alphonse Daudet, Les Amoureuses, France
* Aleksey K. Tolstoy, Vasily Shibanov, Russia

## Births

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

* January 24 – Constance Naden (died 1889), English poet and philosopher
* June 1 – William Wilfred Campbell (died 1918), Canadian
* June 16 – Isabel Richey (died 1910), American
* July 1 – Velma Caldwell Melville (died 1924), American editor and writer
* August 2 – Sir William Watson (died 1935), English
* August 15 – Edith Nesbit (died 1924), English author and poet
* September 5 – Victor Daley (died 1905), Australian
* Also:
   * Balashankar (died 1899), Indian, Gujarati-language poet
   * Dollie Radford, née Caroline Maitland (died 1920), English poet and writer, wife of Ernest Radford

## Deaths

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

* December 18 – Thomas Holley Chivers (born 1807), American
