1813 in poetry

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

Events

 * Robert Southey becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom after Sir Walter Scott's refusal.
 * April 20 - Lord Byron and Thomas Moore visit Leigh Hunt in the Surrey Gaol.
 * April 23 - Byron takes Leigh Hunt some books to help with his composition of Francesca da Rimini.

United Kingdom

 * William Lisle Bowles, The Missionary, published anonymously
 * Lord Byron:
 * The Bride of Abydos: A Turkish tale published in early December and within the month sells 6,000 copies, making Byron sought-after in the London literary scene as he receives invitations daily
 * The Giaour: A fragment of a Turkish tale
 * Waltz, published under the pen name "Horace Hornem Esq."
 * Allan Cunningham, Songs
 * Thomas John Dibdin, A Metrical History of England
 * James Hogg, The Queen's Wake
 * Mary Russell Mitford, Narrative Poems on the Female Character
 * James Montgomery, The World Before the Flood
 * Thomas Moore, writing as "Thomas Brown, the younger", Intercepted Letters; or, The Twopenny Post-Bag, several editions this year
 * Sir Walter Scott:
 * Rokeby, five editions this year; inspired Jokeby, an anonymous parody by John Roby, also published this year
 * The Bridal of Triermain; or, The Vale of St. John
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab
 * Horatio Smith and James Smith, Horace in London, mostly by James Smith

United States

 * Washington Allston, The Sylphs of the Seasons, with Other Poems, "First American from the London edition" Boston; Cambridge: Published by Cummings and Hilliard; Hilliard & Metcalf, American living in and published in the United Kingdom; sentimental and satirical poems; written while the author was a student at Harvard and published during his convalescence; the book was praised by William Wordsworth and Robert Southey
 * Edwin Clifford Holland, Odes, Naval Songs, and Other Occasional Poems
 * William Kilty, attributed, The Vision of Don Croker
 * James Kirke Paulding, The Lay of the Scottish Fiddle: A Tale of Havre de Grace, Supposed to Be Written by Walter Scott, Esq., a long poem and verse parody of the romantic poetry of Sir Walter Scott, particularly Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel; Paulding's work condemns the British invasion of Chesapeake Bay in the War of 1812 and is strongly criticized in the London Quarterly
 * George Watterston, The Scenes of Youth

Other

 * Cristóbal de Beña, Spanish poet published in the United Kingdom:
 * Fábulas políticas ("Political Fables")
 * La lira de la libertad ("Liberty's Lyre"), London: M'Dowall

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 23 – Charles Harpur (died 1868), Australian
 * William Edmondstone Aytoun, Scots
 * Charles Timothy Brooks, American
 * Christopher Pearse Cranch, American
 * Epes Sargent, American
 * Jones Very, American

Deaths
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 * January 20 - Christoph Martin Wieland (born 1733), German poet, translator and editor
 * Henrietta Battier
 * Jane Cave
 * Henry James Pye