1808 in poetry

This article covers 1808 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Works published in English

Christopher Anstey, The Poetical Works of the Late Christopher Anstey
Mary Matilda Betham, Poems
William Blake, Milton, including the poem "And did those feet in ancient time", illuminated book probably published about this year, although the book states "1804 on the title page, likely when the plates were begun
Felicia Dorothea Browne :
* Poems
* England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism
Robert Burns, Reliques of Robert Burnes
Lord Byron, Poems Original and Translated, the second edition of Hours of Idleness, 1807
William Cowper:
* Translator, Latin and Italian Poems of Milton Translated ito English Verse
* Translator, Poems Translated from the French of Mme de la Mothe Guion
James Grahame, The Siege of Copenhagen
Charles Lamb, Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare, anthology
Mary Leadbeater, Poems
Thomas Moore, A Selection of Irish Melodies, parts 1 and 2; songs, published in 10 parts 1808-1834
Amelia Opie, The Warrior's Return, and Other Poems
Walter Scott, Marmion, 10 editions by 1821
Mary Shelley, see John Taylor
John Taylor, possibly, or Mary Shelley, Mounseer Nongtongpaw, a poem for children

William Cullen Bryant, The Embargo; or, Sketches of the Times. A Satire. The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged, Together with the Spanish Revolution, and Other Poems, Boston: "Printed for the author, by E. G. House"; United States a verse satire against the trade restrictions of Thomas Jefferson; Bryant's father had the poem published as a pamphlet, which gained regional popularity
David Hitchcock, A Poetical Dictionary; or, Popular Terms Illustrated in Rhyme, United States

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

February 5 - Carl Spitzweg, German romanticist painter and poet
March 22 - Caroline Norton, English society beauty, novelist, poet, pamphleteer and playwright
March 25 - José de Espronceda, Spanish
May 22 - Gérard de Nerval, pen name of Gérard Labrunie, French essayist, translator and Romantic poet
May 31 - Horatius Bonar, Scottish Free Church cleric and poet
June 11 - James Ballantine, Scottish painter, author and poet
June 17 - Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian poet, playwright, polemicist, historian and linguist
c. September 7 or 8 - William Livingston, Scottish Gaelic poet
September 21 - Evan MacColl, Scottish-born Canadian poet writing in Scottish Gaelic and English

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

July 26 - Jacob Bailey,, Church of England clergyman and poet born in the future United States, immigrated to Nova Scotia, Canada in 1779
September 5 - John Home, Scottish poet and dramatist
November 4 - Melchiore Cesarotti, Italian poet and translator
c. November/December - Nólsoyar Páll, Faroese merchant and poet, lost at sea
date not known - Thomas Moss, English clergyman and poet