1863 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Events

January 1 - American essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson commemorates today's Emancipation Proclamation by composing "Boston Hymn" and surprising a crowd of 3,000 with its debut reading at Boston Music Hall.
May 17 - Intimist poet Rosalía de Castro publishes her first collection in Galician, Cantares gallegos, commemorated every year as the Día das Letras Galegas, an official holiday of the Autonomous Community of Galicia in Spain.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets, essays first published in the Athenaeum 1842 and revised before the author's death; posthumous
Robert Browning, Poetical Works, a mix of poems from Dramatic Lyrics 1842, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics 1845, and Men and Women 1855
Jean Ingelow, Poems
Walter Savage Landor, Heroic Idyls with Additional Poems, the author's last published book
Coventry Patmore, The Victories of Love, Volume 4 of The Angel in the House, first edition in the United Kingdom; first published in Macmillan's Magazine September–November 1861
Menella Bute Smedley, published anonymously, ''The Story of Queen Isabel, and Other Verses''

János Arany, The Bards of Wales, Hungarian
Rosalía de Castro:
* Cantares gallegos, her first collection of poetry in Galician
* A mi madre, poems written in Spanish
Uilleam Mac Dhun Lèibhe, Fios Thun A' Bhard, Scottish Gaelic poem published in Scotland
Catulle Mendès, Philomela, France

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

February - A. R. Raja Raja Varma, Indian, Malayalam-language poet, grammarian, scholar, critic and writer; nephew of Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran
April 26 - Arno Holz, German Naturalist poet and dramatist
April 29 - Constantine Cavafy, Greek
June 18 - George Essex Evans, Australian
July 19 - Dwijendralal Ray Bengali poet, playwright and musician, known primarily for patriotic plays and songs, as well as Hindu devotional lyrics
August 1 - Stuart Merrill, American poet writing primarily in French
August 14 - Ernest Thayer, American humorous writer best known for the poem Casey at the Bat
September 1 - Violet Jacob, born Violet Kennedy-Erskine, Scottish historical novelist and poet
October 9 - Gamaliel Bradford, American biographer, critic, poet and dramatist
November 18 - Richard Dehmel, German
December 16 - George Santayana, Spanish-born American philosopher, essayist, poet and novelist
December 26 - Robert Fuller Murray, American-born British
date not known - Perunnelli Krishnan Vaidyar, Indian, Malayalam-language poet

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

July 10 - Clement Moore, American poet and credited author of A Visit from St. Nicholas
September 17 - Alfred de Vigny, French poet, playwright, and novelist
September 26 - Frederick William Faber, English poet, hymnodist, theologian and Catholic convert
December 21 - Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Italian poet famous for his sonnets in Romanesco, the dialect of Rome
date not known - Hagiwara Hiromichi 萩原広道, Japanese late-Edo period scholar of literature, philology, and nativist studies as well as an author, translator, and poet; known for his commentary and literary analysis of ''The Tale of Genji''