1809 in poetry

This article covers 1809 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Works published

Lord Byron, "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers", his anonymous response to the Edinburgh Review's attack on his 1807 work, Hours of Idleness; this year's response created considerable stir and shortly went through five editions; while some authors resented being satirized in its first edition, over time in subsequent editions it became a mark of prestige to be the target of Byron's pen
Thomas Campbell, Gertrude of Wyoming: A Pennsylvanian Tale, and Other Poems; the first popular English poem set in the United States; about Gertrude's life and death after an Indian attack; the critical reception is mixed, but the poem proves popular, with three British editions and an American edition all printed in the first two years
John Wilson Croker, The Battles of Talavera
John Cam Hobhouse and others, Imitations and Translations from the Ancient and Modern Classics, has 29 poems by Hobhouse, nine by Lord Byron, 27 by others
Margaret Holford, Wallace; or, The Fight of Falkirk
Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb, Poetry for Children, Entirely Original
M. G. Lewis, Monody on the Death of Sir John Moore
Thomas Moore, The Sceptic
Jane West, ''The Mother''

Thomas Campbell, Gertrude of Wyoming
Thomas Green Fessenden, Pills, Poetical, Political, and Philosophical. Prescribed for the Purpose of Purging the Publick of Fiddling Philosophers, of Puny Poetasters, of Paltry Politicians, and Petty Partisans. By Peter Pepper-Box, Poet and Physician, Philadelphia: Printed for the author
Philip Freneau, Poems ''Third Edition''

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

January 19 - Edgar Allan Poe, American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic, American
February 7 - Frederik Paludan-Muller, Danish
March 6 - David Bates, American
March 31 - Edward Fitzgerald, English writer and poet best known for his English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
April 10 - Henry Derozio, one of the first Indian, English-language poets
June 3 - Margaret Gatty, English writer of children's literature, poet and editor
June 19 - Monckton Milnes, English poet and politician
August 6 - Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
August 29 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American poet, essayist and physician
October 18 - Thomas Holley Chivers, American doctor-turned-poet best known for his friendship with Edgar Allan Poe and his controversial defense of the poet after his death
October 24 - John Barr, Scottish-New Zealander
November 27 - Fanny Kemble, American and English actress, author and poet
Undated
* Kasiprasad Ghose, Indian
* Mangkunegara IV, Javanese ruler of Mangkunegaran and poet

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

January 15 - Karl Friedrich Kretschmann, German poet, playwright and storyteller
March 11 - Hannah Cowley, English playwright and poet
March 23 - Thomas Holcroft, English novelist, poet and playwright
March 25 - Anna Seward, called "the Swan of Lichfield", English poet
May 1 - Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel, German writer, military scientist, educator and poet
August 8 - Ueda Akinari, 上田秋成, also known as "Ueda Shūsei", Japanese author, scholar and waka poet
Undated - Jagannatha Dasa, Indian devotional poet