Penny's poetry pages Wiki
Advertisement
            List of years in poetry       (table)
... 1790 .  1791 .  1792 .  1793  . 1794  . 1795  . 1796 ...
1797 1798 1799 -1800- 1801 1802 1803
... 1804 .  1805 .  1806 .  1807  . 1808  . 1809  . 1810 ...
   In literature: 1797 1798 1799 -1800- 1801 1802 1803     
Art . Archaeology . Architecture . Literature . Music . Science +...

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

Events[]

  • January 10 – The Serampore Mission and Press 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]

Works published[]

United Kingdom[]

Anthologies
  • 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[3]
  • M.G. Lewis and others, Tales of Wonder, poems and fiction; includes poems by Sir Walter Scott; published this year, although book states "1801"[2]

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,[4] 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[5]
  • Charles Caldwell, An Elegiac Poem on the Death of General Washington[6]
  • 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;[4] a book-length poem criticized for treating Washington in the style of the Celtic poet[5]
  • 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[4]
  • Hymns and Odes Composed on the Death of General George Washington, contributors include Thomas Paine, Charles Brockton Brown and Richard Alsop[7]

Works published in other languages[]

  • Pritharam Dvija, translator, Svargarohan Parva, translation into Assamese from the original Sanskrit of the last canto of the Mahabharata; India
  • Christian Adolf Overbeck, translator, Anakreon und Sappho, from the original Ancient Greek of Anacreon and Sappho; Lubeck: F. Bohn[3]

Births[]

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

Also

Deaths[]

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

  • February 23 — Joseph Warton (born 1722), English poet and critic
  • April 25 – William Cowper, pronounced "Cooper" (born 1731), English poet and hymn writer
  • June 29 – Abraham Gotthelf Kรคstner (born 1719), German
  • September 29 – Michael Denis (born 1729), Austrian writer, poet, translator, librarian and zoologist
Also
    • Arnimal (birth year not known), Indian, Kashmiri poet; a woman[1]
    • Eibhlรญn Dubh Nรญ Chonaill (born 1743), Irish noblewoman and poet, the composer of Caoineadh Airt Uรญ Laoghaire
    • Mary Robinson (born 1757), English poet and novelist

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. โ†‘ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events, 1800–1910", A History of Indian Literature: Western Impact, Indian Response, 1800–1910, Publisher: Sahitya Akademi, 2006, retrieved via Google Books, July 16, 2009
  2. โ†‘ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  3. โ†‘ 3.0 3.1 search results page at American Antiquarian Booksellers' Association website, retrieved March 4, 2009
  4. โ†‘ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
  5. โ†‘ 5.0 5.1 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
  6. โ†‘ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
  7. โ†‘ Carruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
  8. โ†‘ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications

Icelandic | Indonesian | Irish | Italian | Japanese | Kannada | Kashmiri | Konkani | Korean | Latin | Maithili | Malayalam | Maltese | Manipuri | Marathi | Nepali | Oriya | Pashto | Pennsylvania Dutch | Persian | Polish | Portuguese | Punjabi | Rajasthani | Romanian | Russian | Sanskrit | Sindhi | Slovak | Slovenian | Sorbian | Spanish | Swedish | Tamil | Telugu | Tibetan | Turkic | Ukrainian | Urdu | Welsh | Yiddish

|group2= By nationality
or culture

|list2 =

Afghan | American | Argentine | Australian | Austrian | Brazilian | Breton | Canadian | Chicano | Estonian | Finnish | Greek | Indian | Iranian | Irish | Mexican | New Zealander | Nicaraguan | Nigerian | Ottoman | Pakistani | Peruvian | Romani | Romanian | South African | Swedish | Swiss | Turkish

|group3= By type

|list3 =

Anarchist | Early-modern women (UK) | Feminist | Lyric | Modernist | National | Performance | Romantic | Surrealist | War | Women

}}

This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia. (view article). (view authors).
Advertisement