Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published
- Robert Anderson, Poems on Various Subjects
- William Lisle Bowles, St. Michael's Mount
- George Canning and J. H. Frere, The Loves of the Triangles, a parody of Erasmus Darwin's The Loves of the Plants
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
- Fears in Solitude, a small pamphlet including
- "Fears in Solitude: Written in April 1798, During the Alarm of an Invasion"
- "", first published as The Recantation: An Ode and later renamed; the poem mark's Coleridge's political turn away from revolutionary France after the French invasion of Switzerland; first published in the April 16 edition of the Morning Post
- "Frost at Midnight"
- See William Wordsworth, below for more information on Lyrical Ballads, a collection of Coleridge's and Wordsworth's poems, including Coleridge's
- "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere" (title later changed to Rime of the Ancient Mariner in the 1800 edition, in which the author also dropped much of the archaic wording)
- ""
- Joseph Cottle, Malvern Hills
- William Cowper, "On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture"
- Thomas Gisborne, Poems, Sacred and Moral
- Charles Lamb and Charles Lloyd, Blank Verse, including Lamb's "The Old Familiar Faces"
- Richard Polwhele (anonymously), The Unsex'd Females
- Samuel Rogers, An Epistle to a Friend, with Other Poems
- William Sotheby, Oberon, translation from the original German of Christoph Martin Wieland
- William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published anonymously, Lyrical Ballads with a Few Other Poems (see Coleridge, above, for more on his contributions to the work; and see also Lyrical Ballads 1801, 1802, 1805 and 1815) including:
- "Lucy Gray"
- "Tintern Abbey"
- "We are Seven"
- The Lucy poems:
- "She dwelt among the untrodden ways"
- "A slumber did my spirit seal"
- "Strange fits of passion have I known"
- "Three years she grew in sun and shower"
- "I travelled among unknown men"
- Richard Alsop, with Lemuel Hopkins and Theodore Dwight, The Political Greenhouse
- Joseph Hopkinson, "Hail Columbia", a popular patriotic song, written during the war fever against France
- William Munford, Poems and Prose on Several Occasions, including a tragedy, translations from Horace, versifications of Ossian
- Judith Sargent Murray, The Gleaner
- Robert Treat Paine, Jr., "Adams and Liberty", the author's most famous work, sung throughout the country; praising America's independence from European tyranny
- Jonathan Mitchell Sewall, Versification of President Washington's Excellent Farewell-Address
Other
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 5 – David Macbeth Moir (died 1851), Scottish
- March 30 – Luise Hensel (died 1876), German
- April 8 – Dionysios Solomos ÃÂùÿýÃÂÃÂùÿàãÿûÃÂüÃÂà(died 1857), Greek poet best known for the Hymn to Liberty, the first two stanzas of which become the Greek national anthem
- April 19 – Andrea Maffei (died 1885), Italian poet, translator and librettist
- June 18 – McDonald Clarke (died 1842), American
- June 29 – Count Giacomo Leopardi (died 1837), Italian
- September 20 – Samuel Henry Dickson (died 1872), American poet, physician, writer and educator
- December 24 – Adam Mickiewicz (died 1855), Polish Romantic poet
- c. 1798–1800 – Charles Jeremiah Wells (died 1879), English
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 11 – Karl Wilhelm Ramler (born 1724), German poet
- May 28 – Mary Alcock (born 1742), English poet, essayist and philanthropist
- October 14 – Robert Merry (born 1755), English poet and dilettante, died in the United States.
- November 23 – David Samwell, known as Dafydd Ddu Feddyg (born 1751), Welsh naval surgeon and poet
- Also:
- Edmund Gardner (born c. 1752), English
- St. John Honeywood (born 1763), American
- Waris Shah (born 1722), Punjabi Sufi poet
See also
Notes