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| 1960 |
| | | US novelist John Barth publishes The Sot-Weed Factor, a picaresque life of Edmund Cook set on a family tobacco plantation in Maryland | |
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| 1961 |
| | | In Babi Yar the dissident Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko tackles the subject of Russian anti-Semitism | |
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| 1962 |
| | | James Baldwin's third novel Another Country explores the conflicts in the life of a young unemployed black musician | |
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| 1962 |
| | | John Ashbery's radical collection The Tennis Court Oath includes poems composed of sliced up fragments | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, setting poems by Wilfred Owen, is first performed in the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Sexual intercourse begins in this year, according to Philip Larkin's 1974 poem Annus Mirabilis | |
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| 1964 |
| | | US poet John Berryman's 77 Dream Songs introduce Henry, his alter ego | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Robert Lowell's For the Union Dead takes its title from the last poem, about modern disregard for a Civil War monument | |
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| 1964 |
| | | New Zealand poet Fleur Adcock publishes her first collection, The Eye of the Hurricane | |
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| 1965 |
| | | US author Randall Jarrell's poem The Lost World provides the title for his last published book | |
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