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* June 5 – [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], living at [[Nether Stowey]] in the [[Quantock Hills]], renews his friendship with [[William Wordsworth]] and Wordsworth's sister, [[Dorothy Wordsworth|Dorothy]], who take a house nearby.<ref>{{cite web|title=Samuel Taylor Coleridge|publisher=Britain UnLimited|url=http://www.britainunlimited.com/Biogs/Coleridge.htm|accessdate=2012-10-08}}</ref> |
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* August – The British [[Home Office]] sends an agent to Nether Stowey to investigate Coleridge and Wordsworth who are suspected of being French spies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timetravel-britain.com/06/Oct/wordsworth.shtml|title=Wordsworth's Lakes|first=Keith|last=Kellett|work=TimeTravel Britain|accessdate=2012-10-08}}</ref> |
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* October – Coleridge composes ''[[Kubla Khan]]'' in an opium-induced dream and writes down only a fragment of it on waking. |
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* November – Wordsworth suggests to Coleridge the theme of ''[[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]]'' on a walk in the Quantocks.<ref>{{cite book|last=Holmes|first=Richard|authorlink=Richard Holmes (biographer)|year=1989|title=Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772–1804|location=New York|publisher=Pantheon Books|isbn=978-067-08-0444-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/coleridgeearlyvi00holm/page/171 171]|url=https://archive.org/details/coleridgeearlyvi00holm/page/171}}</ref> |
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==Works published== |
==Works published== |
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===[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]=== |
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| ⚫ | * [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], ''[[Poems on Various Subjects|Poems ... Second Edition]]''<ref name=cocel>{{cite book|editor=Cox, Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}</ref> |
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* [[William Drennan]], ''The Wake of William Orr''<ref>{{cite web|first=I. R.|last=McBride|title=Drennan, William (1754–1820)|work=[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|edition=Online|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8046|accessdate=2013-08-19|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/8046}} {{ODNBsub}}</ref> |
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* [[Alexander Pope]], ''The Works of Alexander Pope'', edited by [[Joseph Warton]], posthumous<ref name=cocel/> |
* [[Alexander Pope]], ''The Works of Alexander Pope'', edited by [[Joseph Warton]], posthumous<ref name=cocel/> |
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* [[Charlotte Smith]], ''Elegaic Sonnets, and Other Poems'', Volume 2, sequel to ''Elegaic Sonnets'' [[1784 in poetry|1784]]<ref name=cocel/> |
* [[Charlotte Turner Smith|Charlotte Smith]], ''Elegaic Sonnets, and Other Poems'', Volume 2, sequel to ''Elegaic Sonnets'' [[1784 in poetry|1784]]<ref name=cocel/> |
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* [[Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins]] and [[Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins]], ''Tributes of Affection by a Lady and her Brother'' |
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* [[Sarah Wentworth Morton]], publishing under the name "Philenia", ''Beacon Hill'', [[American poetry|United States]]<ref>Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West, [http://books.google.com/books?id=Yqi0x7BEvCoC&pg=PR11&dq=Timeline+poetry&ei=alWOSayyBZm8zgSR0ZHfDQ#PPA10,M1 ''Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History''], Oxford University Press US, 1996 |
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ISBN 9780195090536, retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009</ref> |
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* [[Mary Wollstonecraft]], "On Poetry, and Our Relish for the Beauties of Nature", ''Monthly Magazine'' (April 1797), criticism |
* [[Mary Wollstonecraft]], "On Poetry, and Our Relish for the Beauties of Nature", ''Monthly Magazine'' (April 1797), criticism |
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===[[American poetry|United States]]=== |
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* [[Sarah Wentworth Morton]], publishing under the name "Philenia", ''Beacon Hill: A Local Poem, Historic and Descriptive'', on the [[American Revolution]]; conventional verse in neoclassical form<ref name=dbcal>Burt, Daniel S., [https://books.google.com/books?id=VQ0fgo5v6e0C ''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</ref> |
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* [[Robert Treat Paine Jr.]] "The Ruling Passion", the Harvard [[Phi Beta Kappa]] poem for this year<ref name=ucapb>Web page titled [https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/AmPo1/AmPo.bib.html"American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009. 2009-06-22.</ref> |
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==Works wrongly dated this year== |
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* [[Robert Southey]], ''Poems'', actually published in [[1796 in poetry|1796]], although the title page states "1797"<ref name=cocel/> |
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==Births== |
==Births== |
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Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: |
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: |
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* January 10 – [[Annette von Droste- |
* January 10 – [[Annette von Droste-Hülshoff]] (died [[1848 in poetry|1848]]), [[German poetry|German]] |
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* March 27 – [[Alfred de Vigny]] (died [[1863 in poetry|1863]]), [[French poetry|French]] poet, playwright and novelist |
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* August 30 – [[Mary Shelley]], née Godwin (died [[1851 in poetry|1851]]), [[English poetry|English]] novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer and poet |
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* October 13 – [[William Motherwell]] (died [[1835 in poetry|1835]]), [[Scottish poetry|Scottish]] |
* October 13 – [[William Motherwell]] (died [[1835 in poetry|1835]]), [[Scottish poetry|Scottish]] |
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* December 13 – [[Heinrich Heine]] (died [[1856 in poetry|1856]]), [[German poetry|German]] |
* December 13 – [[Heinrich Heine]] (died [[1856 in poetry|1856]]), [[German poetry|German]] |
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* December 27 – [[Mirza Ghalib]] (died [[1869 in poetry|1869]]), [[Indian poetry|Indian]] classical [[Urdu]] and Persian poet |
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* Also: |
* Also: |
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** [[James Wallis Eastburn]] |
** [[James Wallis Eastburn]] (died [[1819 in poetry|1819]]), [[American poetry|American]]<ref name="ucapb"/> |
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** [[George Moses Horton]] (died |
** [[George Moses Horton]] (died [[1883 in poetry|1883]]), African-[[American poetry|American]] |
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==Deaths== |
==Deaths== |
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Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: |
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: |
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* March 18 – [[Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter]] (born [[1746 in poetry|1746]]), [[German poetry|German]] poet and dramatist |
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* April 7 – [[William Mason (poet)|William Mason]] (born [[1724 in poetry|1724]]), [[English poetry|English]] poet, editor and gardener |
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* [[John Codrington Bampfylde]] |
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* June 28 – [[George Keate]] (born [[1729 in poetry|1729]]), [[English poetry|English]] poet and writer |
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* [[George Keate]] |
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* [[William Mason]] |
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** [[Joseph Friedrich Engelschall]] (born [[1739 in poetry|1739]]), [[German poetry|German]] poet |
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** [[Wang Zhenyi (astronomer)|Wang Zhenyi]] (born [[1768 in poetry|1768]]), [[Chinese poetry|Chinese]] Qing dynasty female poet and astronomer |
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** [[Yuan Mei]] (born [[1716 in poetry|1716]]), [[Chinese poetry|Chinese]] Qing dynasty poet, scholar, artist and gastronome |
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** [[Molla Panah Vagif]] (born [[1717 in poetry|1717]]), [[Azerbaijani poetry|Azerbaijani]] poet |
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
[edit]- 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.[1]
- August – The British Home Office sends an agent to Nether Stowey to investigate Coleridge and Wordsworth who are suspected of being French spies.[2]
- 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.[3]
- William Blake illustrates Edward Young's Night-Thoughts.
Works published
[edit]- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poems ... Second Edition[4]
- William Drennan, The Wake of William Orr[5]
- George Dyer, The Poet's Fate[4]
- Alexander Pope, The Works of Alexander Pope, edited by Joseph Warton, posthumous[4]
- Charlotte Smith, Elegaic Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 2, sequel to Elegaic Sonnets 1784[4]
- 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
- Sarah Wentworth Morton, publishing under the name "Philenia", Beacon Hill: A Local Poem, Historic and Descriptive, on the American Revolution; conventional verse in neoclassical form[6]
- Robert Treat Paine Jr. "The Ruling Passion", the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa poem for this year[7]
Works wrongly dated this year
[edit]- Robert Southey, Poems, actually published in 1796, although the title page states "1797"[4]
Births
[edit]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[7]
- George Moses Horton (died 1883), African-American
Deaths
[edit]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
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Notes
[edit]- ^ "Samuel Taylor Coleridge". Britain UnLimited. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
- ^ Kellett, Keith. "Wordsworth's Lakes". TimeTravel Britain. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
- ^ Holmes, Richard (1989). Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772–1804. New York: Pantheon Books. p. 171. ISBN 978-067-08-0444-3.
- ^ a b c d e Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ McBride, I. R. (2004). "Drennan, William (1754–1820)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8046. Retrieved 2013-08-19. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ^ 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
- ^ a b Web page titled [https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/AmPo1/AmPo.bib.html"American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009. 2009-06-22.