1803 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish
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Irish poetry
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
or France
French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
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Events
- First appearance of the Literary Magazine and American Register, a United States monthly published in Philadelphia and edited by Charles Brockden BrownCharles Brockden BrownCharles Brockden Brown , an American novelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period, is generally regarded by scholars as the most ambitious and accomplished US novelist before James Fenimore Cooper...
until 18071807 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Ireland:* Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom...
, when it became a semiannual almanac, American Register, which ceased publication in 18101810 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Lucy Aikin, Epistles on Women...
Works published
- Peter BayleyPeter Bayley (poet)-Life:Bayley was the son of Peter Bayley, a solicitor at Nantwich. In 1790 he entered Rugby school, and in February 1796, at the age of seventeen, Merton College, Oxford. He did not take a degree. He was called to the bar at the Temple, but made no serious effort to pursue his profession. His...
, Poems, includes parodies of works by William WordsworthWilliam WordsworthWilliam Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads....
, including "The Fisherman's Wife," a parody of "The Idiot Boy"; "The Ivy Seat" parodying the Lucy poems; "Evining in the Vale of Festinog", parodying "Tintern Abbey"; "The Forest Fay", parodies Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla...
's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"; London: printed for William Miller by W. Bulmer and Co. - Sir Alexander BoswellAlexander BoswellAlexander Boswell may refer to:* Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck , 8th Laird of Auchinleck, Scottish judge* Sir Alexander Boswell, 1st Baronet, 10th Laird of Auchinleck, writer of traditional Scottish songs*Alexander Boswell...
, The Spirit of Tintoc; or, Johnny Bell and the Kelpie, published anonymously - William Lisle BowlesWilliam Lisle BowlesWilliam Lisle Bowles was an English poet and critic.-Life and career:He was born at King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, where his father was vicar. At the age of fourteen he entered Winchester College, the headmaster at the time being Dr Joseph Warton...
, The Picture - Thomas Campbell, Poems, includes the 7th edition of The Pleasures of Hope (17991799 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* July 21 – At about this year, on the anniversary of the 1796 death of Scots poet Robert Burns, his friends started the tradition of the Burns supper, which has since spread so widely as to...
) and new works, including "Lochiel's Warning", "Hohenlinden", and "The Soldier's Dream" - Thomas ChattertonThomas ChattertonThomas Chatterton was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry. He died of arsenic poisoning, either from a suicide attempt or self-medication for a venereal disease.-Childhood:...
, The Works of Thomas Chatterton, Containing His Life, by G. Gregory, D.D., and Miscellaneous Poems, three volumes, London: printed by Briggs and Cottle, for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, posthumous - Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla...
, Poems: Third Edition, a reprint of Poems ... Second Edition (17971797 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* William Blake illustrates Edward Young's Night Thoughts...
) omitting poems by Charles Lamb and Lloyd London: printed by N. Biggs for T. N. Longman and O. Rees - Erasmus DarwinErasmus DarwinErasmus Darwin was an English physician who turned down George III's invitation to be a physician to the King. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, slave trade abolitionist,inventor and poet...
, The Temple of Nature; or, The Origin of Society - Charles DibdinCharles DibdinCharles Dibdin was a British musician, dramatist, novelist, actor and songwriter. The son of a parish clerk, he was born in Southampton on or before 4 March 1745, and was the youngest of a family of 18....
, The Professional Life of Mr. Dibdin - Henry Kirke WhiteHenry Kirke WhiteHenry Kirke White was an English poet, who died at a young age.White was born in Nottingham, the son of a butcher, a trade for which he was himself intended. However, he was greatly attracted to book-learning...
, Clifton Grove
United States
- J. Warren Brackett, The Ghost of Law, or Anarchy and Despotism, A Poem, Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa, Dartmouth College, at Their Anniversary, August 23, 1803, Hanover, New Hampshire: printed by Moses Davis (24 pages)
- Thomas Fessenden, A Terrible Tractoration, a satire on medical quackery, vivisection, animal crossbreeding and scientific theories of some French and English naturalists, including Comte Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon and Erasmus DarwinErasmus DarwinErasmus Darwin was an English physician who turned down George III's invitation to be a physician to the King. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, slave trade abolitionist,inventor and poet...
Works published in other languages
- C. Stanislaus Bouflers, Oeuvres ("Works"), Paris: L. Pelletier
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- January 1 – Richard Henry HorneRichard Henry HorneRichard Hengist Horne was and English poet and critic most famous for his poem Orion.-Early life:...
(died 18841884 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* Isabella Valancy Crawford, Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and Other Poems. Published at author's expense....
), EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
poet and critic - January 19 – Sarah Helen WhitmanSarah Helen WhitmanSarah Helen Power Whitman was a poet, essayist, transcendentalist, Spiritualist and a romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe.-Early life:...
(died 18781878 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Notorious American poetaster Julia A. Moore publishes her second collection, A Few Choice Words to the Public, but unlike her bestseller of 1876, The Sweet Singer of Michigan Salutes the Public, it ...
), American poet, essayist, transcendentalist, spiritualist and a romantic interest of Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective... - May 1 – James Clarence ManganJames Clarence ManganJames Clarence Mangan, born James Mangan was an Irish poet.-Early life:Mangan was the son of a former hedge school teacher who took over a grocery business and eventually became bankrupt....
(died 18491849 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* November 14 - A public festival is held in Denmark to celebrate the 70th birthday of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger...
), IrishIrish poetryThe history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to... - May 25 – Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century...
, (died 18821882 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* William Allingham, Evil May-Day...
) American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement - June 25 – Sumner Lincoln FairfieldSumner Lincoln FairfieldSumner Lincoln Fairfield was an American poet, born in Warwick, Massachusetts to Dr. Abner Fairfield and Lucy Lincoln. From 1818 to 1820, he studied at Brown University, but he was compelled to leave after 2 years. He taught school in Georgia and South Carolina...
, (died 18441844 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Isabella Banks, Ivy Leaves, including "Neglected Wife"* William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect...
), American poet and teacher - June 30 – Thomas Lovell BeddoesThomas Lovell BeddoesThomas Lovell Beddoes was an English poet, dramatist and physician.- Biography :Born in Clifton, Bristol, England, he was the son of Dr. Thomas Beddoes, a friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Anna, sister of Maria Edgeworth. He was educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College, Oxford...
(died 18491849 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* November 14 - A public festival is held in Denmark to celebrate the 70th birthday of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger...
) EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
poet and playwright - December 3 – Robert Stephen HawkerRobert Stephen HawkerRobert Stephen Hawker was an Anglican priest, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall and reputed eccentric. He is best known as the writer of The Song of the Western Men with its chorus line of And shall Trelawny die? / Here's twenty thousand Cornish men / will know the reason why!, which he published...
, also known as Stephen Hawker (died 18751875 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*October 1 - American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe is reburied in Westminster Hall and Burying Ground with a larger memorial marker...
), EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
Anglican clergyman, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall, and reputed eccentric - December 6 – Susanna MoodieSusanna MoodieSusanna Moodie, born Strickland , was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time.-Biography:...
(died 18551885 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* Frederick George Scott, Justin and Other Poems. Published at author's expense.-United Kingdom:...
), BritishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
born CanadianCanadian poetry- Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...
author and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- January 18 – Ippolit BogdanovichIppolit BogdanovichIppolit Fyodorovich Bogdanovich was a Russian classicist author of light poetry, best known for his long poem Dushenka .- Biography :...
(born 17431743 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Robert Blair, The Grave a work representative of the Graveyard poets movement* Samuel Boyse, Albion's Triumph...
), RussianRussian literatureRussian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its émigrés, and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Russia or the Soviet Union...
classicist author of light poetry, best known for his long poem Dushenka - February 9 – Jean François de Saint-LambertJean François de Saint-LambertJean François de Saint-Lambert was a French poet and military officer, but he is most remembered for his involvement in two love affairs....
, FrenchFrench poetryFrench poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
poet (born 17161716 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Voltaire is exiled to Tulle.*Poet John Byrom returns to England to teach his own system of shorthand....
) - February 18 – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig GleimJohann Wilhelm Ludwig GleimJohann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim was a German poet.- Life :Gleim was born at Ermsleben near Halberstadt. Having studied law at the University of Halle he became secretary to Prince William of Brandenburg-Schwedt at Berlin, where he made the acquaintance of Ewald von Kleist, whose devoted friend he...
(born 17191719 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Joseph Addison:** The Old Whig. Numb. I, published anonymously on March 19** The Old Whig. Numb...
), German poet - March 14 – Friedrich Gottlieb KlopstockFriedrich Gottlieb KlopstockFriedrich Gottlieb Klopstock was a German poet.-Biography:Klopstock was born at Quedlinburg, the eldest son of a lawyer.Both in his birthplace and on the estate of Friedeburg on the Saale, which his father later rented, young Klopstock passed a happy childhood; and more attention having been given...
(born 17241724 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Matthew Concanen, editor, Miscellaneous Poems, Original and Translated...
), German poet - June 22 – Wilhelm Heinse (born 17461746 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Lucy Terry writes the first known poem by an African American, "Bars Fight, August 28, 1746", about an Indian massacre of two white families in Deerfield, Massachusetts; the ballad was related orally...
), German author and poet - August 18 – James BeattieJames Beattie (writer)Professor James Beattie FRSE was a Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher.He was born the son of a shopkeeper and small farmer at Laurencekirk in the Mearns, and educated at Aberdeen University. In 1760, he was appointed Professor of moral philosophy there as a result of the interest of his...
(born 17351735 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English Colonial America:...
), Scottish scholar, writer and poet - August 25 – Johann Gottfried HerderJohann Gottfried HerderJohann Gottfried von Herder was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic. He is associated with the periods of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism.-Biography:...
(born 17441744 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Colonial America:* John Armstrong, The Art of Preserving Health...
), German philosopher, poet, and literary critic - September 23 – Joseph RitsonJoseph RitsonJoseph Ritson was an English antiquary.He was born at Stockton-on-Tees, of a Westmorland yeoman family. He was educated for the law, and settled in London as a conveyancer at the age of twenty-two. He devoted his spare time to literature, and in 1782 published an attack on Thomas Warton's History...
(born 17521752 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Christopher Smart wins the Seatonian Prize for the third time .-United Kingdom:* Moses Browne, The Works and Rest of the Creation* John Byrom, Enthusiasm: A poetical...
), EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
antiquary and anthologist - Also:
- Erika LeibmanErika LeibmanErika Liebman was a Swedish poet and academic. She was likely the first woman student at Lunds universitet.She was the daughter of professor Reinhold Liebman at the Lund university and was allowed to attend class. She would thereby be counted as the first woman to have studied at a Swedish...
(born 17381738 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* During a visit to Morpeth this year, poet Mark Akenside gets the idea for his long didactic poem, The Pleasures of the Imagination, published in 1744.-United Kingdom:* Mark Akenside, A British...
), Swedish poet and academic - William SmithWilliam Smith (Anglican priest)William Smith was the first provost of the University of Pennsylvania.thumb|300px|right|Dr William Smith's residence as it appeared circa 1919-Biography:...
(born 17271727 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Jonathan Swift revisits England this year and stays with his friend Alexander Pope until the visit is cut short when Swift gets word that Esther Johnson is dying. He rushes back...
), American educator, theologian, poet and historian
- Erika Leibman
See also
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- 19th century in literature19th century in literatureSee also: 19th century in poetry, 18th century in literature, other events of the 19th century, 20th century in literature, list of years in literature....
- 19th century in poetry19th century in poetry-Decades and years:...
- Romantic poetryRomantic poetryRomanticism, a philosophical, literary, artistic and cultural era which began in the mid/late-1700s as a reaction against the prevailing Enlightenment ideals of the day , also influenced poetry...
- Golden Age of Russian PoetryGolden Age of Russian PoetryGolden Age of Russian Poetry is the name traditionally applied by Russian philologists to the first half of the 19th century. It is also called the Age of Pushkin, after its most significant poet...
(1800–1850) - Weimar ClassicismWeimar ClassicismWeimar Classicism is a cultural and literary movement of Europe. Followers attempted to establish a new humanism by synthesizing Romantic, classical and Enlightenment ideas...
period in Germany, commonly considered to have begun in 1788 and to have ended either in 1805, with the death of Friedrich SchillerFriedrich SchillerJohann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life , Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
, or 1832, with the death of Goethe - List of poets
- PoetryPoetryPoetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...