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Overview of the events of 1864 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France ).
April –
Charles Baudelaire leaves Paris for Belgium in the hope of resolving his financial difficulties.
Alfred Lord Tennyson portrait by
George Frederic Watts , painted 1863 or this year
William Allingham :
Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland
[1]
Editor, The Ballad Book , anthology
[1]
Robert Browning , Dramatis Personae ,
[1] including "Rabbi Ben Ezra" and "Caliban upon Setebos"
Edward Hartley Dewart , Selections from Canadian Poets , the first anthology of
Canadian poetry in English
[2]
Robert Lowry , "Beautiful River"
George MacDonald , Adela Cathcart , fairy tales, parables and poems
[1]
Winthrop Mackworth Praed , Poems , including a memoir by
Derwent Coleridge , posthumously published
[1]
William Brighty Rands , anonymously published, Lilliput Levee , for children
[1]
Joseph Skipsey , The Collier Lad and other Lyrics
Alfred Lord Tennyson ,
Enoch Arden
[1]
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
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)
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g Cox, Michael, ed. (2004).
The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-860634-6 .
^ Bentley, D. M. R.,
"Pre-Confederation Poetry" article in The Canadian Encyclopedia , retrieved February 8, 2009
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d Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983 , 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
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