1801 in poetry

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

Events

 * Hindusthani Press established in Calcutta, India by John Gilchrist

United Kingdom

 * Lucy Aikin, editor and contributor, Poetry for Children, includes poems by John Dryden, Alexander Pope and Anna Barbauld (anthology)
 * William Lisle Bowles, The Sorrows of Switzerland
 * Sir James Burges, Richard the First
 * Robert Burns, Poems Ascribed to Robert Burns (posthumous)
 * Hannah Cowley, The Siege of Acre
 * George Dyer, Poems
 * James Hogg, Scottish Pastorals, Poems, Songs
 * Matthew Gregory Lewis, editor, Tales of Wonder, anthology of fantasy and horror poetry, London: "Printed by W. Bulmer...for the Author"
 * Thomas Moore:
 * Corruption and Intolerance, published anonymously
 * The Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Little
 * Henry James Pye, Alfred
 * William Barnes Rhodes, The Satires of Juvenal
 * Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer
 * William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems, including "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads", two volumes; first volume, under Wordsworth's name but containing poems by Coleridge, published in 1801, although book states "1800"

United States

 * Paul Allen, Original Poems, Serious and Entertaining
 * St. John Honeywood, Poems by St. John Honeywood ... With Some Pieces in Prose, New York: T. & J. Swords, United States
 * John Blair Linn, The Powers of Genius, popular poem with heroic couplets in three parts
 * Jonathan Mitchell Sewall, Miscellaneous Poems, many of them patriotic and political, including "Profiles of Eminent Men"
 * Isaac Story, A Parnassian Shop, Opened in the Pindaric Stile, by Peter Quince, Esq., satirical verses against the Democratic Republicans, written in the style of "Peter Pindar" (John Wolcot)

Indian subcontinent

 * Vinayaka Bhatta, Angreja Candrika, Sanskrit poem on the glory of the British
 * Mal (Jaina poet), Satbandhava Rasa, long, narrative Gujarati-language poem
 * Krishna Kaur Mishra, Sriyanka, Sanskrit epic in 16 cantos about the early history of the Sikhs

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February 21 – John Henry Newman (born 1890), English Roman Catholic cardinal, theologian, author and poet
 * February 22 – William Barnes (died 1886), English writer, poet, minister, and philologist
 * June 24 – Caroline Clive, also known as "Caroline Wigley Clive" (died 1873), English
 * Also:
 * Kaviyo Ramnath (died about 1879), Indian, Rajasthani-language poet

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 2 – Johann Kaspar Lavater (born 1741), Swiss clergyman, philosopher, writer and poet
 * February 6 – Annis Boudinot Stockton (born 1736), poet and sponsor of literary salons, United States
 * March 14 Ignacy Krasicki (born 1735), Enlightenment poet ("the Prince of Poets"), Poland's La Fontaine, author of the first Polish novel, playwright, journalist, encyclopedist, and translator from French and Greek
 * March 25 – Friedrich von Hardenberg (born 1772), German writer, poet, mystic, philosopher and civil engineer
 * March 25 – Novalis (born 1772), writer, poet, and philosopher of early German Romanticism
 * August 11 – Félix María de Samaniego (born 1745), Spanish
 * November 5 – Motoori Norinaga 本居宣長 (born 1730), Japanese Edo period scholar of Kokugaku, physician and poet
 * Also:
 * Elizabeth Graeme Fegusson (born 1737), poet and sponsor of literary salons; United States
 * Lemuel Hopkins, (born 1750), American
 * James Hurdis (born 1763), English clergyman and poet