1858 in poetry

• February 20 – Giacomo Meyerbeer pays Mathilde Heine 4,500 francs not to publish four poems by her late husband Heinrich Heine.^[1]
• Charles Baudelaire's study on Théophile Gautier is published in Revue contemporaine.

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• January 24 – Constance Naden (died 1889), English poet and philosopher
• June 1 – William Wilfred Campbell (died 1918), Canadian
• June 16 – Isabel Richey (died 1910), American
• July 1 – Velma Caldwell Melville (died 1924), American editor and writer
• August 2 – Sir William Watson (died 1935), English
• August 15 – Edith Nesbit (died 1924), English author and poet
• September 5 – Victor Daley (died 1905), Australian
• Also:
  • Balashankar (died 1899), Indian, Gujarati-language poet^[6]
  • Dollie Radford, née Caroline Maitland (died 1920), English poet and writer, wife of Ernest Radford

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• December 18 – Thomas Holley Chivers (born 1807), American^[7]

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