1860 in poetry

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

Events

 * Andreas Munch becomes the first person to be granted a poet's pension by the Parliament of Norway.

Canada

 * Charles Heavysege, Count Filippo
 * Charles Sangster, Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics

United Kingdom

 * Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems Before Congress
 * Samuel Lover, Metrical Tales, and Other Poems, illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne, Kenney Meadows and others
 * 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)
 * John Leicester Warren, writing under the pen name "George F. Preston", Ballads and Metrical Sketches

United States

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

Other

 * C. J. Carleton, South Australian Lyrics, Australia
 * John Anthony Moore, Tasmanian Rhymings, Australia

Works published in other languages

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

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * 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
 * Date not known:
 * Akshay Kumar Boral (died 1919), Indian, Bengali-language poet
 * Helena Jane Coleman (died 1953), Canadian music teacher, poet and writer
 * Nagesh Vishvanath Pai (died 1920), Indian poet and fiction writer

Deaths
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 * April 6 – James Kirke Paulding (born 1778), 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