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| 1862 |
| | | Julia Ward Howe publishes The Battle Hymn of the Republic, inspired by a visit to Union troops in the American Civil War | |
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| 1866 |
| | | Walt Whitman laments the assassinated President Lincoln in his poem 'O Captain! My Captain!', published in Sequel to Drum-Taps | |
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| 1866 |
| | | Algernon Swinburne scandalizes Victorian Britain with his first collection, Poems and Ballads | |
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| 1867 |
| | | French author Paul Verlaine wins a reputation with his first published collection, Poémes saturniens ('Saturnine Poems') | |
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| 1867 |
| | | The first collection of 'Negro Spirituals' is published in book form in the US as Slave Songs of the United States | |
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| 1870 |
| | | 16-year-old Arthur Rimbaud sends some of his poems to Paul Verlaine, already an established poet | |
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| 1870 |
| | | Bret Harte's comic ballad Plain Language from Truthful James acquires a popular alternative title, The Heathen Chinee | |
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| 1876 |
| | | In 21 years Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass has grown from 12 poems to the two volumes of the sixth edition, published in the USA's centenary year | |
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| c. 1876 |
| | | English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins develops a new verse form that he calls 'sprung rhythm' | |
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| 1876 |
| | | Lewis Carroll publishes The Hunting of the Snark, a poem about a voyage in search of an elusive mythical creature | |
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