1860 in poetry

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

Australia

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

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 Coggleshall, 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 Emmanuel 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
 * John Greenleaf Whittier, Home Ballads, Poems, and Lyrics

Works published in other languages

 * Charles Baudelaire, Les paradis artificiels ("Artificial Paradise"), France
 * Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Poésies posthumes (posthumous)

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 served 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 14 – Hamlin Garland, American (died 1940), American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer
 * December 12 – Harriet Monroe (died 1936), American editor, scholar, literary critic, and patron of the arts; best known as the founder and long time editor of Poetry magazine
 * Also:
 * Akshay Kumar Baral (died 1919), Indian, Bengali-language poet
 * Helena Jane Coleman, American
 * Lorentzos Mavilis (died 1912), Greek
 * Clinton Scollard, American
 * Nagesh Vishvanath Pai (died 1920), Indian poet and fiction writer

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * April 6 – James Kirke Paulding (born 1778), American novelist, poet, a writer for Salamagundi magazine who took it over before it failed, and a United States Secretary of the Navy
 * August 25 – Johan Ludvig Heiberg (born 1791), Danish
 * date not known – Richard Croly