1802 in poetry

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Events

 * On April 15, William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy come across a "long belt" of daffodils, a circumstance which inspires "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", written in 1804, first published in 1807 and published in revised form in 1815. It is titled "The Daffodils" in some anthologies.
 * William Wordsworth writes the sonnet "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802."

United Kingdom

 * Robert Bloomfield, Rural Tales, Ballads and Songs
 * Sir Alexander Boswell, Songs, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dejection: An Ode, first published October 4, 1802 in the Morning Post (see also Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, below, in which the poem was again published this year)
 * George Dyer, Poems
 * William Gifford, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis
 * Joseph Ritson, Ancient English Metrical Romances
 * Walter Savage Landor, Poetry by the author of Gebir
 * Amelia Opie, Poems
 * Sir Walter Scott, editor, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802-03), published anonymously, an anthology of ballads, Volume 3 published in 1893
 * William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, new edition of Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems, published under Wordsworth's name but with poems by Coleridge as well; Preface of 1891 expanded and texts of numerous poems amended; includes Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode" (Later, revised editions: 1798, 1801, 1805)

Other

 * John Blair Linn, The Powers of Genius, A Poem, in Three Parts, By John Blair Linn ... Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged, Philadelphia: John Conrad, & Co.; sold by M. and J. Conrad & Co., United States
 * Thomas Morris, Songs Political and Convivial, United States

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February 11 – Lydia Maria Child (died 1880), American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Indian rights activist, novelist, journalist and poet; author of "Over the River and Through the Woods"
 * February 26 – Victor Hugo (died 1885), French novelist, playwright and poet
 * July 28 – Winthrop Mackworth Praed (died 1839) English politician and poet
 * August 14 – Letitia Elizabeth Landon, also known as "L.E.L." (died 1838), English poet and novelist
 * August 28 – Thomas Aird (died 1876), Scottish
 * October 1 – Edward Coote Pinkney (died 1828), American poet, lawyer, sailor, professor, and editor
 * October 10 – George Pope Morris (died 1864), American editor, poet, and songwriter
 * December 23 – Sara Coleridge (died 1852), English poet and translator; daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 * Also:
 * Isaac Williams(died 1865) English poet and tractarian, a prominent member of the Oxford Movement

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * April 18 – Erasmus Darwin (born 1731), English physician, natural philosopher, physiologist, inventor and poet (grandfather of Charles Darwin)
 * September 17 – Richard Owen Cambridge (born 1717), English
 * Also:
 * Sophia Burrell (born 1750), English poet and playwright
 * Christoph Friedrich Sangerhausen (born 1740), German