1825 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

La bibliothÃÂ¨que canadienne, a French Canadian magazine edited by Michel Bibaud, begins publishing this year (and will continue to 1830)
Dalry Burns Club established to honour the memory of Scottish poet Robert Burns; it claims the longest unbroken record of Burns suppers.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld, The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, edited by Lucy Aikin
Sara Coleridge, translator from the French of Jacques de Mailles, The History of the Chevalier Bayard
Louisa Costello, Songs of a Stranger
Allan Cunningham, editor, The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern, anthology
Robert Davidson, Poems, Scotland
Charles Dibdin the younger, Comic Tales and Lyrical Fancies
Alexander Dyce, editor, Specimens of British Poetesses, anthology
Felicia Dorothea Hemans, The Forest Sanctuary, and Other Poems
Thomas Hood and J. H. Reynolds, published anonymously, Odes and Addresses to Great People
Leigh Hunt, Bacchus in Tuscany, translated from the Italian, Bacco in Tuscana ("Bacchus in Tuscany") by Francesco Redi
Maria Jane Jewsbury, Phantasmagoria, poetry and prose
William Knox, Harp of Zion, Scotland
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing under the pen name "L. E. L.", The Troubador, Catalogue of Pictures, and Historical Sketches
Robert Southey, A Tale of Paraguay

John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, Occasional Pieces of Poetry, a well-received collection partly reprinting poems the author had contributed to the Connecticut Mirror, which he edited from 1822 to 1827
William Cullen Bryant:
Lectures on Poetry, a series of four lectures given at the New York Athenaeum, presenting his theory of poetry, influenced by English Romantic poets; he also objected to the ideas that America lacked poetic material, that the country's language was too primitive for poetry and that American society was too pragmatic and materialistic to support a national poetry
A Forest Hymn
The Death of the Flowers
Charles Follen, Hymns for Children
Fitz-Greene Halleck, "Marco Bozzaris", inspired by the death of Bozarris, a Greek hero in the war of independence against the Ottoman Empire; the work appeared in several periodicals and was praised, although Edgar Allan Poe criticized it as lacking in lyricism
William Leggett, Leisure Hours at Sea
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poems published in several newspapers and the United States Literary Gazette include: "Autumnal Nightfall", "Woods in Winter", "The Angler's Song", and "Hymn of the Moravian Nuns"
Edward Coote Pinkney, Poems, lyric verses including "Rudolph, a Fragment" (first published separately 1823)), in the style of Lord Byron
William Gilmore Simms, Monody on Gen. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charleston

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 11 – Bayard Taylor (died 1878), American poet and travel writer
May 4 – Thomas Henry Huxley (died 1895), English evolutionist and occasional poet (Nettie, born Henrietta Heathorn (died 1914), his wife, is also born this year)
June 6 – Peter John Allan (died 1848), Canadian poet
July 20 or 25 – John Askham (died 1894), English shoemaker and poet
September 24 – Frances Harper, born Frances Ellen Watkins (died 1911), black American poet and abolitionist
October 30 – Adelaide Anne Procter (died 1864), English poet and philanthropist
Dhiro (born 1753), Gujarati devotional poet

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