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

Events

• March - Samuel Taylor Coleridge elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

• The United States Literary Gazette, a semi-monthly, begins publication. It published poetry by Henry Longfellow and William Cullen Bryant, among many others.Burt, Daniel S., , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 9780618168217, retrieved via Google Books

Works published in English

United Kingdom

• Edwin Atherstone, A Midsummer Day's DreamCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6

• Bernard Barton, Revelations of the Dead-Alive

• Robert Bloomfield, The Remains of Robert Bloomfield (posthumous)

• Lord Byron, Don Juan, Cantos XV-XVI (March 24), published anonymously

• Thomas Campbell:

• * Miscellaneous Poems

• * Theodric, and Other Poems

• Catherine Grace Godwin, The Night Before the Bridal; Sappho; and Other Poems, published under the author's maiden name, "Catherine Grace Garnett"

• William Hazlitt, editor, Select British Poets, anthology

• Leticia Elizabeth Landon, writing as "L.E.L.", The Improvisatrice, and Other Poems

• Amelia Opie, The Negro Boy's Tale

• Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley published in June by Mary Shelley; suppressed at insistence of Sir Timothy Shelley in September; includes "Julian and Maddalo", "The Witch of Atlas", "Prince Athanese", "Ode to Naples", "Mont Blanc", "Alastor", "The Triumph of Life", "Marianne's Dream", "Letter to [Maria Gisborne]"

Biography, criticism and scholarship in the United Kingdom

• Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron, criticism

• William Cowper, Private Correspondence of William Cowper, includes some poems

United States

• William Cullen Bryant:

• * Monument Mountain, a popular, blank-verse poem about an Indian princess who falls in love with her cousin, then commits suicide

• * MutationLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)

• Royall Tyler, The Chestnut Tree, the author's longest poem presents sketches of those who pass beneath a 200-year-old chestnut tree

Works published in other languages

France

• Victor Hugo, Nouvelles OdesRees, William, , Penguin, 1992, ISBN 978-0140423853

• Alfred de Vigny, Éloa, ou La sœur des anges

Other

• Giacomo Leopardi - Canzoni and Versi, Italy

Births

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

• January 25 – Michael Madhusudan Dutta (মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত also spelled "Maikel Modhushudôn Dôtto" and "Datta") (died 1873), born Madhusudan Dutt, Indian, Gujarati-language poet and dramatist

• January 28 – Sabine Baring-Gould

• April 5 – Sydney Thompson Dobell, English

• April 13 – Jane Taylor (born 1783), England poet and novelist

• May 19 – William Allingham (died 1889), Irish

• August 15 – Charles Godfrey Leland, American

• September 4 – Phoebe Cary, American

• December 10 – George MacDonald, Scots

• Also:

• * James Lionel Michael (died 1868), Australian

• * Michael Madhusudan Dutt (born "Madhusudan Dutt" (Datta) Bengali: মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত (died 1873), Indian (writing in English) poet and dramatist

• * Aristotelis Valaoritis (died 1879), Greek

• * George Boyer Vashon, American

Deaths

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

• April 19 – Lord Byron, (English), from fever in Greece

• August 15 – Carl Arnold Kortum (born 1745), German writer, poet and physician

Dates unknown:

• Elizabeth Cobbold

• Thomas Maurice

• Susanna Rowson (born 1762), British-American novelist, playwright, poet, lyricist, religious writer, stage actress and educator

See also

• Poetry

• List of years in poetry

• List of years in literature

• 19th century in literature

• 19th century in poetry

• Romantic poetry

• Golden Age of Russian Poetry (1800–1850)

• Weimar Classicism period in Germany, commonly considered to have begun in 1788 and to have ended either in 1805, with the death of Friedrich Schiller, or 1832, with the death of Goethe

• List of poets