1797 in poetry
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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">English poetry">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, criticism
United States">American poetry">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 form
- Robert Treat Paine Jr. "The Ruling Passion", the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa poem for this year
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 " in poetry" article:- January 10 - Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German
- March 27 - Alfred de Vigny, French poet, playwright and novelist
- August 30 - Mary Shelley, née Godwin, English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer and poet
- October 13 - William Motherwell, Scottish
- December 13 - Heinrich Heine, German
- December 27 - Mirza Ghalib, Indian classical Urdu and Persian poet
- Also:
- * James Wallis Eastburn, American
- * George Moses Horton, African-American
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- March 18 - Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter, German poet and dramatist
- April 7 - William Mason, English poet, editor and gardener
- June 28 - George Keate, English poet and writer
- Also:
- * Joseph Friedrich Engelschall, German poet
- * Wang Zhenyi, Chinese Qing dynasty female poet and astronomer
- * Yuan Mei, Chinese Qing dynasty poet, scholar, artist and gastronome
- * Molla Panah Vagif, Azerbaijani poet