1858 in poetry

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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.

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