1858 in poetry
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United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Cecil Frances Alexander, Hymns Descriptive and Devotional for the Use of Schools
- Matthew Arnold, Merope
- William Barnes, Hwomely Rhymes: A second collection of poems of rural life in the Dorset Dialect
- Elizabeth Rundle Charles, The Voice of Christian Life in Song
- Arthur Hugh Clough, "Amours de Voyage", English poet published in The Atlantic Monthly in the United States
- William Johnson Cory, Ionica
- Charles Kingsley, Andromedia, and Other Poems
- Walter Savage Landor, Dry Sticks, Fagoted
- William Morris, The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems dedicated to Dante Gabriel Rossetti; the author's first book
- Adelaide Anne Procter, Legends and Lyrics, first series,, including "The Lost Chord", set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan
- Catherine Winkworth, Lyra Germanica: Second Series
United States">American poetry">United States
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth
- Arthur Hugh Clough, "Amours de Voyage", English poet published in The Atlantic Monthly in the United States
- James T. Fields, A Few Verses for a Few Friends
- William J. Grayson, The Country
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, essays
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems
Other in English
- Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian Ballads, Montreal, Canada
Other languages
- Alphonse Daudet, Les Amoureuses, France
- Aleksey K. Tolstoy, Vasily Shibanov, Russia
Births
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- January 24 - Constance Naden, English poet and philosopher
- June 1 - William Wilfred Campbell, Canadian
- July 1 - Velma Caldwell Melville, American editor and writer
- August 2 - Sir William Watson, English
- August 15 - Edith Nesbit, English author and poet
- September 5 - Victor Daley, Australian
- Also:
- * Balashankar, Indian, Gujarati-language poet
- * Dollie Radford, née Caroline Maitland, English poet and writer, wife of Ernest Radford
Deaths
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