1800 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1797
1798
1799
1800
1801
1802
1803

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events[]

  • January 10 – The 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.[1]
  • October 3 – William and Dorothy Wordsworth, walking near Grasmere, encounter a leech gatherer who inspires his poem "Resolution and Independence", first written 18 months later[2] 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 Scarcity[3]
  • Robert Bloomfield, The Farmer's Boy, with engravings by Thomas Bewick; 15 editions by 1827[3]
  • Robert Burns, The Works of Robert Burns (posthumous)[3]
  • 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, anthology[4]
  • Joseph Cottle, Alfred[3]
  • William Gifford, Epistle to Peter Pindar, satire addressed to John Wolcot[3]
  • William Hayley, An Essay on Sculpture[3]
  • 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"[3]
  • Thomas Moore, Odes of Anacreon[3]
  • William Sotheby:
    • The Georgics of Virgil[3]
    • The Siege of Cuzco: A tragedy[3]

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,[5] 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 Washington[6]
  • , An Elegiac Poem on the Death of General Washington[7]
  • 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;[5] a book-length poem criticized for treating Washington in the style of the Celtic poet[6]
  • 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[5]
  • Hymns and Odes Composed on the Death of General George Washington, contributors include Thomas Paine, and Richard Alsop[8]

Works published in other languages[]

  • , translator, Svargarohan Parva, translation into Assamese from the original Sanskrit of the last canto of the Mahabharata; India
  • , translator, Anakreon und Sappho, from the original Ancient Greek of Anacreon and Sappho; Lubeck: F. Bohn[4]

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 – Thomas Babington Macaulay (died 1859), English poet, historian and Whig politician of Scottish ancestry
  • December 4 – Emil Aarestrup (died 1856), Danish[9]
  • Also:

Deaths[]

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e 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.
  2. ^ Sutherland, John; Fender, Stephen (2011). "3 October". Love, Sex, Death & Words: Surprising Tales from a Year in Literature. London: Icon. pp. 375–6. ISBN 978-184831-247-0.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b search results page at American Antiquarian Booksellers' Association Archived 2009-03-03 at the Wayback Machine website, retrieved March 4, 2009
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
  7. ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
  8. ^ Carruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
  9. ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
  • [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
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