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1808 poetry literature
This article covers 1808 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Works published in English
United Kingdom
thumb|250px|The preface to Milton, as it appeared in author and artist William Blake's own illuminated version
Christopher Anstey, The Poetical Works of the Late Christopher AnsteyCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6
Mary Matilda Betham, Poems
William Blake, Milton, including the poem "And did those feet in ancient time", illuminated book probably published about this year, although the book states "1804 on the title page, likely when the plates were begun
Felicia Dorothea Browne (later "Felicia Hemans"):
Poems
England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism
Robert Burns, Reliques of Robert Burnes (posthumous)
Lord Byron, Poems Original and Translated, the second edition of Hours of Idleness, 1807
William Cowper:
Translator, Latin and Italian Poems of Milton Translated ito English Verse
Translator, Poems Translated from the French of Mme de la Mothe Guion
James Grahame, The Siege of Copenhagen
Charles Lamb, Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare, anthology
Mary Leadbeater, Poems
Thomas Moore, A Selection of Irish Melodies, parts 1 and 2; songs, published in 10 parts 1808–1834
Amelia Opie, The Warrior's Return, and Other Poems
Walter Scott, Marmion, 10 editions by 1821
Mary Shelley, see John Taylor
John Taylor, possibly, or Mary Shelley (uncertain attribution), Mounseer Nongtongpaw, a poem for children
Other in English
William Cullen Bryant, The Embargo; or, Sketches of the Times. A Satire. The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged, Together with the Spanish Revolution, and Other Poems, Boston: "Printed for the author, by E. G. House"; United StatesWeb page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009. Archived 2009-05-27. a verse satire against the trade restrictions of Thomas Jefferson; Bryant's father had the poem published as a pamphlet, which gained regional popularityBurt, 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
David Hitchcock, A Poetical Dictionary; or, Popular Terms Illustrated in Rhyme, United StatesLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
Works published in other languages
Jacques Delille, Les Troi Règnes; FranceFrance, Peter, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, p 226, New York: Oxford University Press (1995) 0-19-866125-8
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, part I, Germany
Friedrich Hölderlin, "Der Rhein" and "Patmos", Germany
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 5 – Carl Spitzweg (died 1885), German romanticist painter and poet
March 22 – Caroline Norton (died 1877), English society beauty, novelist, poet, pamphleteer and playwright
March 25 – José de Espronceda (died 1842), Spanish
May 22 – Gérard de Nerval, pen name of Gérard Labrunie (died 1855), French essayist, translator and Romantic poet
May 31 – Horatius Bonar (died 1889), Scottish Free Church cleric and poet
June 11 – James Ballantine (died 1877), Scottish painter, author and poet
June 17 – Henrik Wergeland (died 1845), Norwegian poet, playwright, polemicist, historian and linguist
c. September 7 or 8 – William Livingston (Uilleam Macdhunleibhe) (died 1870), Scottish Gaelic poetWhyte, Christopher (1991). William Livingston/Uilleam Macdhunleibhe (1808-70): a survey of his poetry and prose. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow. Retrieved 2014-08-18.
September 21 – Evan MacColl (died 1898), Scottish-born Canadian poet writing in Scottish Gaelic and English
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
July 26 – Jacob Bailey, (born 1731), Church of England clergyman and poet born in the future United States, immigrated to Nova Scotia, Canada in 1779
September 5 – John Home (born 1722), Scottish poet and dramatist
November 4 – Melchiore Cesarotti (born 1730), Italian poet and translator
c. November/December – Nólsoyar Páll (born 1766), Faroese merchant and poet, lost at sea
date not known – Thomas Moss (born 1740), English clergyman 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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