Events

• The period from September 1818
  1818 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-John Keats:* In December, Keats is invited by his friend, Charles Armitage Brown, to move into Brown's home at Wentworth Place, in Hampstead, then a pastoral suburb north of London...
  
   to September of this year is often referred to among scholars of John Keats
  John Keats
  John Keats was an English Romantic poet. Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the Romantic movement, despite the fact that his work had been in publication for only four years before his death.Although his poems were not...
  
   as "the Great Year", or "the Living Year", because during this period he was most productive, writing his most critically acclaimed works. Several major events have been noted as factors in this increased productivity: namely, the death of his brother Tom, the critical reviews of Endymion
  Endymion (poem)
  Endymion is a poem by John Keats first published in 1818. Beginning famously with the line "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever", Endymion, like many epic poems in English , is written in rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter...
  
  , and his meeting Fanny Brawne
  Fanny Brawne
  Frances Brawne Lindon is most known for her betrothal to 19th-Century English Romantic poet John Keats, a fact largely unknown until 1878, when Keats' letters to her were published...
  
  . The famous odes he produced during the spring and summer of this year include: Ode to Psyche
  Ode to Psyche
  "Ode to Psyche" is a poem by John Keats written in spring 1819. The poem is the first of his 1819 odes, which include "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Ode to a Nightingale". "Ode to Psyche" is an experiment in the ode genre, and Keats's attempt at an expanded version of the sonnet format that describes...
  
  , Ode on a Grecian Urn
  Ode on a Grecian Urn
  "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819 and published in January 1820 . It is one of his "Great Odes of 1819", which include "Ode on Indolence", "Ode on Melancholy", "Ode to a Nightingale", and "Ode to Psyche"...
  
  , Ode to a Nightingale
  Ode to a Nightingale
  "Ode to a Nightingale" is a poem by John Keats written in May 1819 in either the garden of the Spaniards Inn, Hampstead, or, as according to Keats' friend Charles Armitage Brown, under a plum tree in the garden of Keats House, Hampstead, London. According to Brown, a nightingale had built its nest...
  
  , Ode on Melancholy
  Ode on Melancholy
  "Ode on Melancholy" is a poem written by John Keats in the spring of 1819. In the spring of that year, Keats wrote the poem along with "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode on Indolence", and "Ode to Psyche". In the Autumn of that year, Keats wrote "To Autumn", which completed his ...
  
  , and To Autumn
  To Autumn
  "To Autumn" is a poem by English Romantic poet John Keats . The work was composed on 19 September 1819 and published in 1820 in a volume of Keats's poetry that included Lamia and The Eve of Saint Agnes. "To Autumn" is the final work in a group of poems known as Keats's "1819 odes"...
  
  . He also wrote the ballad "La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
  La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
  La Belle Dame sans Merci is a ballad written by the English poet John Keats. It exists in two versions, with minor differences between them. The original was written by Keats in 1819...
  
  " (French: "the beautiful lady without pity").
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron...
  
   wrote The Mask of Anarchy in reaction to the Peterloo Massacre
  Peterloo Massacre
  The Peterloo Massacre occurred at St Peter's Field, Manchester, England, on 16 August 1819, when cavalry charged into a crowd of 60,000–80,000 that had gathered to demand the reform of parliamentary representation....
  
   and sent it to a newspaper for publication this year, although the poem was not published until 1832
  1832 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Weimar Classicism period in Germany is commonly considered to have begun in 1788) and to have ended either in 1805, with the death of Schiller, or this year, with the death of Goethe* Thomas...
  
  , when it appeared with a preface by Leigh Hunt.
• William Wordsworth
  William Wordsworth
  William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads....
  
   begins another major revision of The Prelude
  The Prelude
  The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind is an autobiographical, "philosophical" poem in blank verse by the English poet William Wordsworth. Wordsworth wrote the first version of the poem when he was 28, and worked over the rest of it for his long life without publishing it...
  
  . This version was completed in 1820
  1820 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Formation of the Apostles, a Cambridge University intellectual society...
  
  . His first version, in two parts, was done in 1798
  1798 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* William Wordsworth begins writing the first version of The Prelude, finishing it in two parts in 1799. This version describes the growth of his understanding up to age 17, when he departed for...
  
   and 1799. A second major revision occurred in 1805
  1805 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Sir Roger Newdigate founds the Newdigate Prize for English Poetry at Oxford University...
  
   and 1806
  1806 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* William Wordsworth completes his first revision of The Prelude: or, Growth of a Poet's Mind in 13 Books, a version started in 1805. It would be further revised later in his life. His work this year...
  
  . The book was not published in any form until shortly after his death in 1850
  1850 in poetry
  — From Cantos 27 and 56, In Memoriam A.H.H., by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:...
  
  .

Works published in English

• Charles Bucke
  Charles Bucke
  Charles Bucke was an English writer who, despite being poor most of his life, still managed to produce roughly eleven different works, each varying in number of volumes and topics.-Life:...
  
  , The Fall of the Leaf, and Other Poems
• Lord Byron:
  • June 28 — Mazeppa
    Mazeppa (Byron)
    This article is about the poem by Lord Byron, for other uses see MazeppaMazeppa is a Romantic narrative poem written by Lord Byron in 1819, based on a popular legend about the early life of Ivan Mazepa , a Ukrainian gentleman who later became Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks...
    
     and "Ode on Venice" published
  • "Wellington: The Best of the Cut-Throats", a poem attacking Lord Wellington
  • Don Juan, cantos i, ii,, published anonymously; other versions published 1821
    1821 in poetry
    — words chiselled onto the tombstone of John Keats, at his requestNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Saturday Evening Post founded in Philadelphia...
    
    , 1823
    1823 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published in English:* Robert Bloomfield, Hazelwood Hall, verse drama...
    
     and 1824
    1824 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* March - Samuel Taylor Coleridge elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature...
    
    
• Thomas Campbell, Specimens of the British Poets, an anthology
• Louisa Costello, Redwald: A Tale of Mona; and Other Poems
• George Crabbe
  George Crabbe
  George Crabbe was an English poet and naturalist.-Biography:He was born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, the son of a tax collector, and developed his love of poetry as a child. In 1768, he was apprenticed to a local doctor, who taught him little, and in 1771 he changed masters and moved to Woodbridge...
  
  , Tales of the Hall, the author's last work
• Charles Dibdin
  Charles Dibdin
  Charles Dibdin was a British musician, dramatist, novelist, actor and songwriter. The son of a parish clerk, he was born in Southampton on or before 4 March 1745, and was the youngest of a family of 18....
  
  , Young Arthur; or, The Child of Mystery
• Felicia Dorothea Hemans:
  • Tales and Historic Scenes, in Verse
  • 'Wallace's Invocation to Bruce
• William Hone
  William Hone
  William Hone was an English writer, satirist and bookseller. His victorious court battle against government censorship in 1817 marked a turning point in the fight for British press freedom.-Biography:...
  
  , the Political House that Jack Built, published anonymously; illustrated by George Cruickshank
  George Cruickshank
  George Alexander Cruickshank was an Australian politician. Born near Dubbo, New South Wales, he attended Collegiate School in Bathurst, and was a grazier in northern New South Wales from 1878. In 1889 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Inverell, a position...
  
  
• Leigh Hunt:
  • "Hero and Leander"
  • "Bacchies"
  • "Ariadne"
  • Poetical Works including reprints of "Bacchies", "Ariadne", The Story of Rimini and "The Descent of Liberty"
• John Keats
  John Keats
  John Keats was an English Romantic poet. Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the Romantic movement, despite the fact that his work had been in publication for only four years before his death.Although his poems were not...
  
  , Odes
• Lady Caroline Lamb, Verses from Glenarvon, published anonymously
• Charles Lloyd
  Charles Lloyd (poet)
  Charles Lloyd II , poet, was a friend of Charles Lamb, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Thomas de Quincey. His best-known poem is "Desultory Thoughts in London".-Early life:...
  
  , Nugae Canorae
• Thomas Babington Macaulay, Pompeii
• John Montgomery
  John Montgomery
  John Montgomery or Jack Montgomery may refer to:*John Montgomery , U.S. pioneer in Tennessee*John Montgomery , U.S. merchant, Continental Congressman for Pennsylvania...
  
  , Greenland, and Other Poems
• Thomas Moore
  Thomas Moore
  Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer. He was responsible, with John Murray, for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death...
  
  , Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress
• Bryan Waller Proctor writing as "Barry Cornwall", Dramatic Scenes, and Other Poems
• J. H. Reynolds, Peter Bell: A lyrical ballad, writing under the pen name
  Pen name
  A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her...
  
   "W. W.", that is, satirically purporting to be William Wordsworth
  William Wordsworth
  William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads....
  
  ; a parody of Wordsworth's "Peter Bell" (see below)
• Samuel Rogers
  Samuel Rogers
  Samuel Rogers was an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Romantic colleagues and friends Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron...
  
  , Human Life
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron...
  
  :
  • The Cenci: A tragedy
    The Cenci
    The Cenci, A Tragedy, in Five Acts is a verse drama in five acts by Percy Bysshe Shelley written in the summer of 1819, and inspired by a real Italian family, the Cencis . Shelley composed the play at Rome and at Villa Valsovano near Livorno, from May to August 5, 1819...
    
    , not performed until May 7, 1886
  • Julian and Maddalo
    Julian and Maddalo
    "Julian and Maddalo: A Conversation" is a poem in 617 lines of enjambed heroic couplets by Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was written in the autumn of 1818 at a villa called I Capuccini, in Este, near Venice, which had been lent to Shelley by his friend Lord Byron, and it was given its final revision...
    
    
  • Rosalind and Helen: a Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems
• William Wordsworth
  William Wordsworth
  William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads....
  
  :
  • Peter Bell: A tale in verse, parodied in advance of publication by Reynolds (see above) and later by P.B. Shelley in "Peter Bell the Third"
  • The Waggoner

United States

• The American Ladies Pocket Book: 1819, including poetry by St. George Tucker
  St. George Tucker
  St. George Tucker was a lawyer, professor of law at the College of William and Mary, and judge of Virginia's highest court. In 1813, upon the nomination of President James Madison, he became the United States district judge for Virginia.-Early life:Born in St. George, Bermuda, near Port Royal...
  
  , Philadelphia: A. Small, anthology
• Joseph Rodman Drake
  Joseph Rodman Drake
  Joseph Rodman Drake was an early American poet.- Biography :Born in New York City, he was orphaned when young and entered a mercantile house. While still a child, he showed a talent for writing poems. He was educated at Columbia. In 1813 he began studying in a physician's office...
  
   and Fitz-Greene Halleck
  Fitz-Greene Halleck
  Fitz-Greene Halleck was an American poet notable for his satires and as one of the Knickerbocker Group. Born and reared in Guilford, Connecticut, he went to New York City at the age of 20, and lived and worked there for nearly four decades. He was sometimes called "the American Byron"...
  
  , writing anonymously, "The Croaker Papers", a series of 35 poems in the New York Evening Post and National Advertiser, with 14 by Drake and eight written in collaboration between the two poets; light, satirical criticisms, often of local politicians; Edgar Allan Poe
  Edgar Allan Poe
  Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective...
  
   criticized them when they first appeared, calling them ephemeral and careless
• Fitz-Greene Halleck
  Fitz-Greene Halleck
  Fitz-Greene Halleck was an American poet notable for his satires and as one of the Knickerbocker Group. Born and reared in Guilford, Connecticut, he went to New York City at the age of 20, and lived and worked there for nearly four decades. He was sometimes called "the American Byron"...
  
  , Fanny, a long poem, much praised for its social commentary; about a poor merchant and his daughter rising into high society; written in the style of Beppo by Lord Byron; two years later, Halleck added 50 stanzas to the popular poem
• John Neal
  John Neal
  -External links:* * * -Selected Works Available online:* * * * * and * and * * *...
  
  :
  • Otho: A Tragedy, in Five Acts, Boston: West, Richardson and Lord
  • The Battle of Niagara, second, enlarged edition, Baltimore: N. G. Maxwell
• Thomas Paine
  Thomas Paine
  Thomas "Tom" Paine was an English author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States...
  
  , Miscellaneous Poems
• James Kirke Paulding
  James Kirke Paulding
  James Kirke Paulding was an American writer and, for a time, the United States Secretary of the Navy.-Biography:...
  
  , The Lay of the Scottish Fiddle: a Tale of Havre de Grace, Supposed to be written By Walter Scott, Esq. New York; Philadelphia: Published by Inskeep & Bradford, and Bradford & Inskeep
• John Howard Payne
  John Howard Payne
  John Howard Payne was an American actor, poet, playwright, and author who had most of his theatrical career and success in London. He is today most remembered as the creator of "Home! Sweet Home!", a song he wrote in 1822 that became widely popular in the United States, Great Britain, and the...
  
  , Brutus; or, The Fall of Tarquin. An Historical Tragedy in Five Acts, London: T. Rodwell
• Gulian Crommelin Verplanck
  Gulian Crommelin Verplanck
  Gulian Crommelin Verplanck was a New York politician and sometime man of letters.-Biography:Verplanck was born in Wall Street in New York City, the son of Congressman Daniel C. Verplanck. He graduated B.A. from Columbia College in 1801, then studied law with Josiah Ogden Hoffman and was admitted...
  
  , The State Triumvirate, seven satires originally published in the New York American newspaper which he co-founded; the extremely popular work, praised by critics, attacked New York Governor DeWitt Clinton
  DeWitt Clinton
  DeWitt Clinton was an early American politician and naturalist who served as United States Senator and the sixth Governor of New York. In this last capacity he was largely responsible for the construction of the Erie Canal...
  
   and his administration
• Richard Henry Wilde
  Richard Henry Wilde
  Richard Henry Wilde was a United States Representative and lawyer from Georgia.-Biography:Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1789 to Richard Wilde and Mary Newitt, but came to America at age eight and moved to Augusta, Georgia, in 1802. His brother was Judge John W. Wilde, a judge of Augusta,...
  
  , The Lament of the Captive, an epic on the Seminole War, includes the much-praised lyric "My Life Is Like the Summer Rose", which was reprinted nationwide, unattributed and without the author's consent

Other in English

• Barron Field
  Barron Field (author)
  Barron Field was an English-born Australian judge and poet.-Early life:Field was the second son of Henry Field, a London surgeon and apothecary, and Esther, née Barron. Barron Field was educated as a barrister and was called to the Inner Temple on 25 June 1814...
  
  , First Fruits of Australian Poetry, first book of poetry published in Australia

France

French poetry

French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

• Honoré de Balzac
  Honoré de Balzac
  Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon....
  
  , Cromwell
• André Chénier
  André Chénier
  André Marie Chénier was a French poet, associated with the events of the French Revolution of which he was a victim. His sensual, emotive poetry marks him as one of the precursors of the Romantic movement...
  
  :
  • La Jeune Tarentine ("The Young Tarentine")
  • La Jeune Captive ("The Young Captive")
• Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
  Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
  Marceline Desbordes-Valmore was a French poet.She was born in Douai. Following the French Revolution, her family emigrated to Guadeloupe. In 1817 she married her second husband, the actor Prosper Lanchantin-Valmore....
  
  , Élégies et romances, France
  French poetry
  French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
  
  
• Louis Jean Népomucène Lemercier, La Panhypocrisiade, ou la comédie infernale du seizième siècle
  Panhypocrisiade
  La Panhypocrisiade, ou la comédie infernale du seizième siècle is a poem in sixteen cantos by Louis Jean Népomucène Lemercier, composed essentially under the French Consulate but not published until 1819 .The work is similar to Tragiques by Agrippa d'Aubigné, which has a similar style...
  
  ("The Panhypocrisiade, or The Infernal Comedy of the Sixteenth Century"), in sixteen cantos

Other languages

• Kobayashi Issa
  Kobayashi Issa
  , was a Japanese poet and lay Buddhist priest of the Jōdo Shinshū sect known for his haiku poems and journals. He is better known as simply , a pen name meaning Cup-of-tea...
  
  , Oraga haru ("The Year of My Life"), Japan
  Japanese poetry
  Japanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry during the Tang Dynasty. It took them several hundred years to digest the foreign impact, make it a part of their culture and merge it with their literary tradition in their mother tongue, and begin to develop the diversity of their native poetry. For...
  
  

Births

• January 1 - Arthur Hugh Clough
  Arthur Hugh Clough
  Arthur Hugh Clough was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale...
  
   (died 1861
  1861 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Matthew Arnold, On Translating Homer Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).-United Kingdom:* Matthew Arnold,...
  
  ), English
  English poetry
  The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
  
   poet and brother of suffragist Anne Jemima Clough
• February 12 - William Wetmore Story
  William Wetmore Story
  William Wetmore Story was an American sculptor, art critic, poet and editor.-Biography:William Wetmore Story was the son of jurist Joseph Story and Sarah Waldo Story...
  
  , American
• February 22 - James Russell Lowell
  James Russell Lowell
  James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets...
  
   (died 1891
  1891 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .- Events :* The Rhymers Club gathered at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street, London, 1891–93, including John Davidson, Ernest Dowson, W.B...
  
  ), American
• May 27 - Julia Ward Howe
  Julia Ward Howe
  Julia Ward Howe was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet, most famous as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".-Biography:...
  
  , American
• May 31 - Walt Whitman
  Walt Whitman
  Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse...
  
   (died 1892
  1892 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* William Butler Yeats founds the Irish Literary Society in Dublin....
  
  ), American
• June 12 - Charles Kingsley
  Charles Kingsley
  Charles Kingsley was an English priest of the Church of England, university professor, historian and novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and northeast Hampshire.-Life and character:...
  
  , (English
  English poetry
  The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
  
  )
• August 1 - Herman Melville
  Herman Melville
  Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd....
  
   (died 1891
  1891 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .- Events :* The Rhymers Club gathered at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street, London, 1891–93, including John Davidson, Ernest Dowson, W.B...
  
  ), American
• November 22 - Mary Ann Evans (pseud. "George Eliot"), English
  English poetry
  The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
  
  
• December 30 - Theodor Fontane
  Theodor Fontane
  Theodor Fontane was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist writer.-Youth:Fontane was born in Neuruppin into a Huguenot family. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to an apothecary, his father's profession. He became an...
  
  , German

• Dates not known:
  • Thomas Dunn English
    Thomas Dunn English
    Thomas Dunn English was an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey who represented the state's 6th congressional district in the House of Representatives from 1891 to 1895. He was also a published author and songwriter, who had a bitter ongoing feud with Edgar Allan...
    
    , American
  • Josiah Gilbert Holland
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    Josiah Gilbert Holland was an American novelist and poet who also wrote under the pseudonym Timothy Titcomb. He helped to found and edit Scribner's Monthly , in which appeared his novels, Arthur Bonnicastle, The Story of Sevenoaks, Nicholas Minturn...
    
    , American

Deaths

• January 14 - John Wolcot
  John Wolcot
  John Wolcot , satirist, born in Dodbrooke, near Kingsbridge in Devon, was educated by an uncle, and studied medicine. In 1767 he went as physician to Sir William Trelawny, Governor of Jamaica, and whom he induced to present him to a Church in the island then vacant, and was ordained in 1769...
  
   (born 1738
  1738 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* During a visit to Morpeth this year, poet Mark Akenside gets the idea for his long didactic poem, The Pleasures of the Imagination, published in 1744.-United Kingdom:* Mark Akenside, A British...
  
  ), English
  English poetry
  The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
  
   satirist and poet
• January 28 - Johann Karl Wezel
  Johann Karl Wezel
  Johann Karl Wezel , also Johann Carl Wezel, was a German poet, novelist and philosopher of the Enlightenment.-Life:...
  
   (also "Carl"; born 1747
  1747 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Sir William Blackstone, The Panthion, published anonymously, attribution uncertain* William Dunkin, Boeotia...
  
  ), German poet, writer and educator
• date not known – James Wallis Eastburn, (born 1797
  1797 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* William Blake illustrates Edward Young's Night Thoughts...
  
  ), American
• date not known – Wang Yun
  Wang Yun (Qing Dynasty)
  Wang Yun was a Chinese poet and playwright during the Qing Dynasty.Her birthplace is Chang'an. In her poems she writes about the frustration of educated women, who were not allowed to have a career, nor were they accepted by men as intellectual equals. The Huaiqing Tang ji contains over 200 of her...
  
   (born 1749
  1749 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* John Brown, On Liberty* William Collins:** Ode Occasion'd by the Death of Mr...
  
  ), Chinese poet and playwright during the Qing Dynasty
  Qing Dynasty
  The Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a brief, abortive restoration in 1917. It was preceded by the Ming Dynasty and followed by the Republic of China....
  
  

See also

• Poetry
  Poetry
  Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
  
  
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• 19th century in literature
  19th century in literature
  See also: 19th century in poetry, 18th century in literature, other events of the 19th century, 20th century in literature, list of years in literature....
  
  
• 19th century in poetry
  19th century in poetry
  -Decades and years:...
  
  
• Romantic poetry
  Romantic poetry
  Romanticism, a philosophical, literary, artistic and cultural era which began in the mid/late-1700s as a reaction against the prevailing Enlightenment ideals of the day , also influenced poetry...
  
  
• Golden Age of Russian Poetry
  Golden Age of Russian Poetry
  Golden Age of Russian Poetry is the name traditionally applied by Russian philologists to the first half of the 19th century. It is also called the Age of Pushkin, after its most significant poet...
  
   (1800–1850)
• Weimar Classicism
  Weimar Classicism
  Weimar Classicism is a cultural and literary movement of Europe. Followers attempted to establish a new humanism by synthesizing Romantic, classical and Enlightenment ideas...
  
   period in Germany, commonly considered to have begun in 1788 and to have ended either in 1805, with the death of Friedrich Schiller
  Friedrich Schiller
  Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life , Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
  
  , or 1832, with the death of Goethe
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