1795 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Events

June 27 - Mary Robinson writes the poem January, 1795. This year she also writes London's Summer Morning.
August 21-September 26 - English poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy stay at 7 Great George Street, Bristol, during which time they meet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey and the latter poets' publisher Joseph Cottle.
October 4 - Coleridge marries Sara Fricker at St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol. On November 14, Southey marries Sara's sister Edith in the same church.

William Blake, Prophetic books:
* The Book of Ahania, illuminated book with five intaglio plates; one known copy
* The Book of Los, illuminated book with five intaglio plates
* The Song of Los, illuminated book with 8 plates, five known copies
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sonnets on Eminent Characters, also known as Sonnets on Eminent Contemporaries, a series of 11 sonnets published in the Morning Chronicle from December 1, 1794 to January 29, this year; these three were published this year:
* To William Godwin, Author of Political Justice ; published January 10
* To Robert Southey, of Baliol College, Oxford, Author of the 'Retrospect,' and Other Poems ; published January 14
* To Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. ; published January 29
Joseph Cottle, published anonymously, Poems
Ann Batten Cristall, Poetical Sketches
William Drennan, Erin
William Hayley, The National Advocates
Walter Savage Landor:
* Published anonymously, Moral Epistle to Lord Stanhope
* The Poems of Walter Savage Landor, suppressed by the author
Joseph Ritson, editor, Robin Hood: A Collection of all the Ancient Poems
Mary Robinson, Poems, by Mrs. Mary Robinson. A New Edition
Robert Southey and Robert Lovell, Poems
John Thelwall, Poems Written in Close Confinement in the Tower and Newgate, the author was arrested in 1794 and sent to the Tower of London

Philip Morin Freneau, Poems Written Between the Years 1768 and 1794, 287 poems, including previously unpublished work and revised poems ; he published the work on his own printing press, but although he and the booksellers had high hopes for it, the reception is poor
Robert Treat Paine, Jr., "The Invention of Letters" commencement verse delivered at Harvard University; described the history of thought, eulogized Washington and attacked Jacobins
Isaac Story, Liberty
Charles Pinkney Sumner, ''The Compass''

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

August 7 - Joseph Rodman Drake, American whose poetry is first published posthumously in 1835
August 30 - Amable Tastu, French women of letters and poet
September 15 - James Gates Percival, American poet and geologist
September 29 - Kondraty Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary
October 12 - Janet Hamilton, née Thomson, Scottish poet and essayist
October 31 - John Keats, English Romantic lyric poet
December 4 - Thomas Carlyle, Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian, teacher and critic
Also - George Darley, Irish poet, novelist and critic

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

February 11 - Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet and songwriter
April 22 - Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin, Irish poet
July 31 - Basílio da Gama, writing as Termindo Sipílio, Brazilian Jesuit and epic poet
August 20 - William Jones, Welsh radical, poet and antiquary
September 22 - Sayat-Nova, Armenian musician and poet, executed
September 30 - George Butt, English chaplain and poet
November 17 - Samuel Bishop, English poet, essayist and schoolmaster
Also - Hedvig Sirenia, Swedish poet