1802 in poetry

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

Events

January 29 - Greenock Burns Club holds the first Burns dinner, in Alloway, in honour of Scottish poet Robert Burns.
April 15 - William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy, walking by Ullswater near their home in the Lake District of England, come across a "long belt" of daffodils, a circumstance which inspires his poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", written in 1804, first published in 1807 and in revised form in 1815. It is titled "The Daffodils" in some anthologies.
May 3-9 - Having recollected in tranquility while walking on Barton Fell near Ullswater an experience of despondency, William Wordsworth writes "The Leech-Gatherer", the first draft of his poem "Resolution and Independence".
Summer - Adam Oehlenschläger writes at a sitting the poem "Guldhornene", introducing Romanticism into Danish poetry.
July 31 - William Wordsworth, leaving London for Dover and Calais with Dorothy, witnesses the early morning scene which he captures in his Petrarchan sonnet "Composed upon Westminster Bridge". In Calais, he will meet his 9-year-old illegitimate daughter Caroline for the first time.
October 4 - Wordsworth marries Mary Hutchinson at Brompton, Scarborough.
Henry Boyd completes the first full English translation of Dante's Divine Comedy.

Anne Bannerman, Tales of Superstition and Chivalry, Scottish Gothic ballad collection
Robert Bloomfield, Rural Tales, Ballads and Songs
Sir Alexander Boswell, Songs, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dejection: An Ode, first published October 4, 1802, in the Morning Post
George Dyer, Poems
William Gifford, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Joseph Ritson, Ancient English Metrical Romances
Walter Savage Landor, Poetry by the author of Gebir
Amelia Opie, Poems
Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin, Timothy O'Sullivan's Pious Miscellany, Irish Gaelic language poet published in Ireland
Walter Scott, editor, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, an anthology of ballads
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, new edition of Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems, published under Wordsworth's name but with poems by Coleridge as well; Preface of 1801 expanded and texts of numerous poems amended; includes Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode"

John Blair Linn, The Powers of Genius, A Poem, in Three Parts, By John Blair Linn... Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged, Philadelphia: John Conrad, & Co.; sold by M. and J. Conrad & Co., United States
Charles Morris, Songs Political and Convivial, United States

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

February 11 - Lydia Maria Child, American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Indian rights activist, novelist, journalist and poet; author of "Over the River and Through the Woods"
February 26 - Victor Hugo, French novelist, playwright and poet
March 14 - Rangga Warsita, Javanese
July 28 - Winthrop Mackworth Praed English politician and poet
August 14 - Letitia Elizabeth Landon, also known as "L.E.L.", English poet and novelist
August 28 - Thomas Aird, Scottish
October 1 - Edward Coote Pinkney, American poet, lawyer, sailor, professor, and editor
October 10 - George Pope Morris, American editor, poet, and songwriter
December 23 - Sara Coleridge, English poet and translator; daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
December 31 - Richard Henry Horne, English poet, critic and journalist, and public official in Australia
date not known - Isaac Williams English poet and tractarian, a prominent member of the Oxford Movement

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

April 18 - Erasmus Darwin, English physician, natural philosopher, physiologist, inventor and poet
September 17 - Richard Owen Cambridge, English
Also:
* Sophia Burrell, English poet and playwright
* Christoph Friedrich Sangerhausen, German