1863 in literature

List of years in literature (table)
	... 1853 . 1854 . 1855 . 1856 . 1857 . 1858 . 1859 ...; 1860 1861 1862 -1863- 1864 1865 1866; ... 1867 . 1868 . 1869 . 1870 . 1871 . 1872 . 1873 ... In poetry: 1860 1861 1862 -1863- 1864 1865 1866
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The year 1863 in literature involved some significant new books.

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First reunions of the Romanian Junimea literary society, a group which was to exercise a major influence on Romanian culture until the 1910s.

Lizzie Doten - Poems from the Inner Life (alleged to have been dictated by the spirit of Edgar Allan Poe)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Tales of a Wayside Inn, including "Paul Revere's Ride"

February 9 - Anthony Hope, adventure novelist (died 1933)
March 3 - Arthur Machen, novelist and short story writer (died 1947)
March 12 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet (died 1938)
April 9 - Henry De Vere Stacpoole, novelist (died 1951)
April 29
- Constantine Cavafy, Greek Alexandrine poet (died 1933)
- William Randolph Hearst, newspaper proprietor (died 1951)
August 7 - Gene Stratton Porter, American novelist and naturalist (died 1924)
September 8 - W. W. Jacobs, short story writer (died 1943)
September 22 - Ferenc Herczeg, dramatist (died 1954)
November 1 - Arthur Morrison, writer (died 1945)
November 21 - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, novelist (died 1944)
December 16 - George Santayana, novelist and poet (died 1952)