1864 in poetry

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

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
 * Alfred Lord Tennyson, Enoch Arden

United States

 * George Henry Baker, Poems of the War
 * William Cullen Bryant:
 * Thirty Poems
 * Hymns
 * 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:
 * May 4 – Richard Hovey (died 1900), American
 * February 17 – A.B. ("Banjo") Paterson (died 1941), Australian writer and poet
 * August 16 – Mary Gilmore (died 1962), Australian poet and journalist
 * 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
 * Also:
 * Sydney Jephcott (died 1951), Australian
 * Charles H. Souter (died 1944), Australian

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 29 – Lucy Aikin
 * February 2 – Adelaide Anne Procter (born 1825), English poet, a daughter of poet Bryan Procter
 * May 20 – John Clare (born 1793), English poet
 * Stephen Foster
 * Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * Walter Savage Landor
 * George Pope Morris
 * Paramananda (Kashmiri poet) (born 1791), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet