1864 in poetry
# 1864 in poetry

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

## Events

* April – Charles Baudelaire leaves Paris for Belgium in the hope of resolving his financial difficulties.

## Works published

### Canada

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

### 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

* 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 (died 1863), France

## Births

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

* 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)
