Overview of the events of 1863 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1863 in poetry
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Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February – A. R. Raja Raja Varma (died 1918), Indian, Malayalam-language poet, grammarian, scholar, critic and writer; nephew of Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran[4]
- April 26 – Arno Holz (died 1929), German Naturalist poet and dramatist
- April 29 – Constantine Cavafy (died 1933), Greek
- June 18 – George Essex Evans (died 1909), Australian
- July 19 – Dwijendralal Ray (died 1913) Bengali poet, playwright and musician, known primarily for patriotic plays and songs, as well as Hindu devotional lyrics
- August 1 – Stuart Merrill (died 1915), American poet writing primarily in French
- August 14 – Ernest Thayer (died 1940), American humorous writer best known for the poem Casey at the Bat
- September 1 – Violet Jacob, born Violet Kennedy-Erskine (died 1946), Scottish historical novelist and poet
- October 9 – Gamaliel Bradford (died 1932), American biographer, critic, poet and dramatist
- November 18 – Richard Dehmel (died 1920), German
- December 16 – George Santayana (died 1952), Spanish-born American philosopher, essayist, poet and novelist
- December 26 – Robert Fuller Murray (died 1894), American-born British
- date not known – Perunnelli Krishnan Vaidyar (died 1894), Indian, Malayalam-language poet[4]
Deaths
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- July 10 – Clement Moore (born 1779), American poet and credited author of A Visit from St. Nicholas (better known as Twas the Night Before Christmas)
- September 17 – Alfred de Vigny (born 1797), French poet, playwright, and novelist
- September 26 – Frederick William Faber (born 1814), English poet, hymnodist, theologian and Catholic convert
- December 21 – Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (born 1791), Italian poet famous for his sonnets in Romanesco, the dialect of Rome
- date not known – Hagiwara Hiromichi 萩原広道 (born 1815), Japanese late-Edo period scholar of literature, philology, and nativist studies (Kokugaku) as well as an author, translator, and poet; known for his commentary and literary analysis of The Tale of Genji (surname: Hagiwara)