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.

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)