1800 in poetry

none 1800 poetry literature Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events January 10 – The Serampore Mission and Press is established in Serampore (now part of West Bengal) India by Baptist missionaries Joshua Marshman and William Ward. The press would grow into the largest in Asia, printing books in nearly every Indian language.Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events, 1800–1910", A History of Indian Literature: Western Impact, Indian Response, 1800–1910, Sahitya Akademi, 2006, retrieved via Google Books, July 16, 2009. October 3 – William and Dorothy Wordsworth, walking near Grasmere, encounter a leech gatherer who inspires his poem "Resolution and Independence", first written 18 months later978-184831-247-0 Love, Sex, Death & Words: Surprising Tales from a Year in Literature John Sutherland John Sutherland (author) Stephen Fender London Icon 2011 3 October 375–6 and published in 1807. William Blake begins 3 years residence in a cottage at Felpham in Sussex to illustrate the works of William Hayley; here he begins work on his poem Milton. Works published United Kingdom Christopher Anstey, Contentment; or, Hints to Servants on the Present ScarcityCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 Robert Bloomfield, The Farmer's Boy, with engravings by Thomas Bewick; 15 editions by 1827 Robert Burns, The Works of Robert Burns (posthumous) George Canning, editor, Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, collection of poems which had appeared in the Anti-Jacobin magazine; four editions by 1801, London: J. Wright, anthologysearch results page at American Antiquarian Booksellers' Association https://web.archive.org/web/20090303145852/http://www.abaa.org/books/abaa/index.html 2009-03-03 website, retrieved March 4, 2009 Joseph Cottle, Alfred William Gifford, Epistle to Peter Pindar, satire addressed to John Wolcot William Hayley, An Essay on Sculpture M. G. Lewis and others, Tales of Wonder, poems and fiction; includes "Glenfinlas" and other poems by Sir Walter Scott; published this year, although book states "1801" Thomas Moore, Odes of Anacreon William Sotheby: The Georgics of Virgil The Siege of Cuzco: A tragedy United States William Cliffton, Poems, Chiefly Occasional, by the late Mr. Cliffton. To Which are Prefixed, Introductory Notices of the Life, Character and Writings, of the Author, and an Engraved Likeness, New York: Printed for J. W. Fenno, by G. & R. Waite,Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009 published posthumously On the death of George Washington Richard Alsop, "A Poem, Sacred to the Memory of George Washington", dedicated to Martha Washington; among the most widely read of the many eulogies published in the United States on the death of WashingtonBurt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books Charles Caldwell, An Elegiac Poem on the Death of General WashingtonLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press John Blair Linn, The Death of Washington. A Poem. In Imitation of the Manner of Ossian. By Rev. John Blair Linn, Philadelphia: Printed by John Ormrod; a book-length poem criticized for treating Washington in the style of the Celtic poet Sacred Dirges, Hymns, and Anthems, Commemorative of the Death of General George Washington, The Guardian of His Country, and The Friend of Man. Born Feb. 22, 1732. Died, at Mount Vernon, Dec. 14, 1799. Aged 68. An Original Composition, including a poem by Susanna Haswell Rowson writing under the pseudonym "a citizen of Massachusetts", Boston: Printed at Boston, by I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, anthology Hymns and Odes Composed on the Death of General George Washington, contributors include Thomas Paine, Charles Brockton Brown and Richard AlsopCarruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993 Works published in other languages Pritharam Dvija, translator, Svargarohan Parva, translation into Assamese from the original Sanskrit of the last canto of the Mahabharata; India Christian Adolf Overbeck, translator, Anakreon und Sappho, from the original Ancient Greek of Anacreon and Sappho; Lubeck: F. Bohn Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: September 28 – Sibella Elizabeth Miles (died 1882), English poet, writer and schoolteacher October 14 – Charles Neaves (died 1876), Scottish judge and poet October 18 – Sir Henry Taylor (died 1884), English playwright, author and poet October 25 Maria Jane Jewsbury (died 1833), English writer and poet Thomas Babington Macaulay (died 1859), English poet, historian and Whig politician of Scottish ancestry December 4 – Emil Aarestrup (died 1856), DanishPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications Also: c.1798–1800 – Charles Jeremiah Wells (died 1879), English Asir Muzaffar Ali Khan (died 1861), Urdu-language Indian poet also writing in Persian and whose ghazals are compiled into six diwans Godavardhana (died 1851), Kerala-born Indian poet writing many of his poems in Sanskrit Mohammad Momin Khan, (died 1851), Indian, Urdu-language poet (surname: Momin) Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 23 – Joseph Warton (born 1722), English poet and critic April 25 – William Cowper, pronounced "Cooper" (born 1731), English poet and hymn writer June 29 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (born 1719), German September 29 – Michael Denis (born 1729), Austrian writer, poet, translator, librarian and zoologist December 26 – Mary Robinson (born 1757), English actress, poet, dramatist, novelist and royal mistress Also: Arnimal (birth year not known), Indian, Kashmiri poet; a woman Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (born 1743), Irish noblewoman and poet, composer of Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire See also Poetry Poetry List of years in poetry 18th century in poetry 19th century in poetry List of years in literature 18th century in literature 19th century in literature Romantic poetry Golden Age of Russian Poetry (1800–1850) Weimar Classicism period in Germany, commonly considered to have begun in 1788 and to have ended either in 1805, with the death of Friedrich Schiller, or 1832, with the death of Goethe Notes "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto Category:18th-century poetry Poetry *