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1805 in poetry
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1805 poetry literature
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
January–September – Samuel Taylor Coleridge serves as Acting Public Secretary in Malta.
William Wordsworth begins his first revision of The Prelude: or, Growth of a Poet's Mind in 13 Books, a version completed in 1806 and further revised later in his life. His work this year and next revises the original 1798-1799 version. The book is not published in any form until shortly after his death in 1850.Web page titled "The Thirteen Book / Prelude / by William Wordsworth / Edited by Mark L. Reed", at The Wordsworth Centre website, retrieved April 17, 2010
Works published
United Kingdom
Robert Anderson, Ballads in the Cumberland DialectCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6
Henry Cary, translator, The Inferno of Dante Alighieri, parallel text
Charlotte Dacre, Hours of Solitude
George Ellis, editor, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances (anthology)
William Hayley, Ballads
Charles Lamb, The King and Queen of Hearts, published anonymously; for children
Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Robert Southey, Madoc
William Taylor, translation from the original German by G. E. Lessing, Nathan the Wise, first privately printed in 1791
John Thelwall, The Trident of Albion, on the Battle of Trafalgar
Mary Tighe, Psyche, or the Legend of Love
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems, the last separate edition, with some variants in the poems; previous editions in 1798, 1801, 1802
The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog
United States
Thomas Green Fessenden, Democracy UnveiledLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
John Blair Linn, Valerian, A Narrative Poem: Intended, in Part, to Describe the Early Persecutions of Christians, and Rapidly to Illustrate the Influence of Christianity on the Manners of Nations, By John Blair Linn ... With a Sketch of the Life and Character of the Author, Philadelphia: Thomas and George PalmerWeb page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
Alexander Wilson, The Foresters
Other
Adam Oehlenschlager, Poetiske Skrifter ("Poetic Writings"), prose and poetry, narrative cycles, drama, lyrics, ballads and romances, including "Aladdin", a philosophical fairy-tale drama in blank verse; DenmarkPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano, edited and composed, Des Knaben Wunderhorn, vol. 1; Germany
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 22 – Sarah Fuller Adams (died 1848), English
March 20 – Thomas Cooper (died 1892), English Chartist, poet and religious lecturer
May 26 – Joseph Grant (died 1835), Scottish
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 5 – Gottlob Burmann (born 1737), German poet and lipogrammatist
May 9 – Friedrich Schiller (born 1759), German poet and dramatist
August 3 – Christopher Anstey (born 1724) English writer and poet
See also
Poetry
Poetry
List of years in poetry
List of years in literature
19th century in literature
19th century in poetry
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
List of poets
Notes
"A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
Category:19th-century poetry
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