1813 in poetry
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Events
- April 20 - Lord Byron and Thomas Moore visit Leigh Hunt in the Surrey Gaol.
- April 23 - Byron takes Hunt some books to help with his composition of Francesca da Rimini.
- June 17–18 - German poet Theodor Körner, fighting with the Königlich Preußisches Freikorps von Lützow in the German campaign against Napoleon, composes the sonnet Abschied vom Leben while lying severely wounded.
- August 25 - Theodor Körner composes the patriotic lyric Schwertlied the night before his death in action at age 21.
- Autumn - Robert Southey becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom after Walter Scott's refusal of the post.
- First award of the Chancellor's Gold Medal for poetry at the University of Cambridge in England, to George Waddington for "Columbus".
- Kālidāsa's 4th/5th century Sanskrit poem Meghadūta is first translated into English by Horace Hayman Wilson.
Works published
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- William Lisle Bowles, The Missionary, published anonymously
- Lord Byron:
- * The Bride of Abydos: A Turkish tale published in early December and within the month sells 6,000 copies, making Byron sought after in the London literary scene as he receives invitations daily
- * The Giaour: A fragment of a Turkish tale
- * The Waltz: An Apostrophic Hymn, published under the pen name "Horace Hornem Esq."
- Allan Cunningham, Songs
- Thomas John Dibdin, A Metrical History of England
- James Hogg, The Queen's Wake
- Mary Russell Mitford, Narrative Poems on the Female Character
- James Montgomery, The World Before the Flood
- Thomas Moore, writing as "Thomas Brown, the younger", Intercepted Letters; or, The Twopenny Post-Bag, several editions this year
- Sir Walter Scott:
- * Rokeby, five editions this year; inspired Jokeby, an anonymous parody by John Roby, also published this year
- * The Bridal of Triermain; or, The Vale of St. John
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab
- Horatio Smith and James Smith, Horace in London, mostly by James Smith
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- Washington Allston, The Sylphs of the Seasons, with Other Poems, "First American from the London edition" Boston; Cambridge: Published by Cummings and Hilliard; Hilliard & Metcalf, American living in and published in the United Kingdom; sentimental and satirical poems; written while the author was a student at Harvard and published during his convalescence; the book was praised by William Wordsworth and Robert Southey
- Edwin Clifford Holland, Odes, Naval Songs, and Other Occasional Poems
- William Kilty, attributed, The Vision of Don Croker
- James Kirke Paulding, The Lay of the Scottish Fiddle: A Tale of Havre de Grace, Supposed to Be Written by Walter Scott, Esq., a long poem and verse parody of the romantic poetry of Sir Walter Scott, particularly Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel; Paulding's work condemns the British invasion of Chesapeake Bay in the War of 1812 and is strongly criticized in the London Quarterly
- George Watterston, ''The Scenes of Youth''
Other
- Cristóbal de Beña, Spanish poet published in the United Kingdom:
- * Fábulas políticas
- * La lira de la libertad, London: M'Dowall
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 23 – Charles Harpur, Australian
- February 26 – Adrien Rouquette, American poet and missionary
- March 8 – Christopher Pearse Cranch, American writer and artist
- March 18 – Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and dramatist
- June 20 – Charles Timothy Brooks, American translator, poet, Transcendentalist and Unitarian pastor
- June 21 – William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Scottish
- August 28 – Jones Very, American poet, essayist, Transcendentalist and clergyman
- September 27 – Epes Sargent, American editor, poet and playwright
- October 17 – Georg Büchner, German dramatist, poet and writer
- November 13 – Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Serbian poet and Prince-Bishop of Montenegro
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 20 - Christoph Martin Wieland, German poet, translator and editor
- June 26 - Jean-François Cailhava de L'Estandoux, French dramatist, poet and critic
- August 11 - Henry James Pye, English Poet Laureate
- Autumn - Henrietta Battier, Irish poet, satirist and actress