1863 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
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 – Rosalía de Castro published her first collection of poetry in Galician, Cantares gallegos ("Galician Songs"), commemorated every year as the Día das Letras Galegas ("Galician Literature Day"), an official holiday of the Autonomous Community of Galicia in Spain.
Works published in English
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 (see also Poetical Works 1868)
Jean Ingelow, Poems (23 editions by 1880; see also Poems 1880, Poems: Third Series 1885)
