1805 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- January-September - Samuel Taylor Coleridge serves as Acting Public Secretary in Malta.
- William Wordsworth begins his first revision of The Prelude: or, Growth of a Poet's Mind in 13 Books, a version completed in 1806 and further revised later in his life. His work this year and next revises the original 1798-1799 version. The book is not published in any form until shortly after his death in 1850.
Works published
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Robert Anderson, Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect
- Henry Cary, translator, The Inferno of Dante Alighieri, parallel text
- Charlotte Dacre, Hours of Solitude
- George Ellis, editor, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances
- William Hayley, Ballads
- Charles Lamb, The King and Queen of Hearts, published anonymously; for children
- Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel
- Robert Southey, Madoc
- William Taylor, translation from the original German by G. E. Lessing, Nathan the Wise, first privately printed in 1791
- John Thelwall, The Trident of Albion, on the Battle of Trafalgar
- Mary Tighe, Psyche, or the Legend of Love
- William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems, the last separate edition, with some variants in the poems; previous editions in 1798, 1801, 1802
- ''The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog''
United States">American poetry">United States
- Thomas Green Fessenden, Democracy Unveiled
- John Blair Linn, Valerian, A Narrative Poem: Intended, in Part, to Describe the Early Persecutions of Christians, and Rapidly to Illustrate the Influence of Christianity on the Manners of Nations, By John Blair Linn... With a Sketch of the Life and Character of the Author, Philadelphia: Thomas and George Palmer
- Alexander Wilson, ''The Foresters''
Other
- Adam Oehlenschlager, Poetiske Skrifter, prose and poetry, narrative cycles, drama, lyrics, ballads and romances, including "Aladdin", a philosophical fairy-tale drama in blank verse; Denmark
- Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano, edited and composed, Des Knaben Wunderhorn, vol. 1; Germany
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- February 22 - Sarah Fuller Adams, English
- March 20 - Thomas Cooper, English Chartist, poet and religious lecturer
- May 26 - Joseph Grant, Scottish
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 5 - Gottlob Burmann, German poet and lipogrammatist
- May 9 - Friedrich Schiller, German poet and dramatist
- August 3 - Christopher Anstey English writer and poet