Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events June 5 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, living at Nether Stowey in the Quantock Hills, renews his friendship with William Wordsworth and Wordsworth's sister, Dorothy, who take a house nearby. August – The British Home Office sends an agent to Nether Stowey to investigate Coleridge and Wordsworth who are suspected of being French spies. October – Coleridge composes Kubla Khan in an opium-induced dream and writes down only a fragment of it on waking. November – Wordsworth suggests to Coleridge the theme of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner on a walk in the Quantocks. William Blake illustrates Edward Young's Night-Thoughts.
Works published
United Kingdom Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poems ... Second Edition William Drennan, The Wake of William Orr George Dyer, The Poet's Fate Alexander Pope, The Works of Alexander Pope, edited by Joseph Warton, posthumous Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 2, sequel to Elegiac Sonnets 1784 Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins and Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, Tributes of Affection by a Lady and her Brother Mary Wollstonecraft, "On Poetry, and Our Relish for the Beauties of Nature", Monthly Magazine (April 1797), criticism
United States
Sarah Wentworth Morton, publishing under the name "Philenia", Beacon Hill: A Local Poem, Historic and Descriptive, on the American Revolution; conventional verse in neoclassical formBurt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, , retrieved via Google Books Robert Treat Paine Jr. "The Ruling Passion", the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa poem for this yearWeb page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009. 2009-06-22.
Works wrongly dated this year Robert Southey, Poems, actually published in 1796, although the title page states "1797"
Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 10 – Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (died 1848), German March 27 – Alfred de Vigny (died 1863), French poet, playwright and novelist August 30 – Mary Shelley, née Godwin (died 1851), English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer and poet October 13 – William Motherwell (died 1835), Scottish December 13 – Heinrich Heine (died 1856), German December 27 – Mirza Ghalib (died 1869), Indian classical Urdu and Persian poet Also: James Wallis Eastburn (died 1819), American George Moses Horton (died 1883), African-American
Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: March 18 – Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter (born 1746), German poet and dramatist April 7 – William Mason (born 1724), English poet, editor and gardener June 28 – George Keate (born 1729), English poet and writer Also: Joseph Friedrich Engelschall (born 1739), German poet Wang Zhenyi (born 1768), Chinese Qing dynasty female poet and astronomer Yuan Mei (born 1716), Chinese Qing dynasty poet, scholar, artist and gastronome Molla Panah Vagif (born 1717), Azerbaijani poet
See also
Poetry
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