Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events [edit] Poetry published - Robert Bloomfield, Rural Tales, Ballads and Songs[1]
- Sir Alexander Boswell, Songs, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect[1]
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dejection: An Ode, first published October 4, 1802 in the Morning Post (see also Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, below, in which the poem was again published this year)
- George Dyer, Poems[1]
- William Gifford, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis[1]
- Joseph Ritson, Ancient English Metrical Romances
- Walter Savage Landor, Poetry by the author of Gebir[1]
- Amelia Opie, Poems
- Sir Walter Scott, editor, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802-03), published anonymously, an anthology of ballads, Volume 3 published in 1893[1]
- William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, new edition of Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems, published under Wordsworth's name but with poems by Coleridge as well; Preface of 1891 expanded and texts of numerous poems amended; includes Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode" (Later, revised editions: 1798, 1801, 1805)[1]
- John Blair Linn, The Powers of Genius, A Poem, in Three Parts, By John Blair Linn ... Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged, Philadelphia: John Conrad, & Co.; sold by M. and J. Conrad & Co., United States[2]
- Thomas Morris, Songs Political and Convivial, United States[3]
[edit] Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - February 11 – Lydia Maria Child (died 1880), American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Indian rights activist, novelist, journalist and poet; author of "Over the River and Through the Woods"
- February 26 – Victor Hugo (died 1885), French novelist, playwright and poet
- July 28 – Winthrop Mackworth Praed (died 1839) English politician and poet
- August 14 – Letitia Elizabeth Landon, also known as "L.E.L." (died 1838), English poet and novelist
- August 28 – Thomas Aird (died 1876), Scottish
- October 1 – Edward Coote Pinkney (died 1828), American poet, lawyer, sailor, professor, and editor
- October 10 – George Pope Morris (died 1864), American editor, poet, and songwriter
- December 23 – Sara Coleridge (died 1852), English poet and translator; daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- date not known – Isaac Williams(died 1865) English poet and tractarian, a prominent member of the Oxford Movement
[edit] Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: [edit] See also - ^ a b c d e f g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
- ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ "Burrell, Sophia" entry, p 442, in The Dictionary of National Biography: From the Earliest Times to 1900, edited by Stephen, Sidney Lee, Robert Blake, Christine Stephanie Nicholls; London, 1908, retrieved January 22, 2009
- [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
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