1825 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
La bibliothèque canadienne, a French Canadian magazine edited by Michel Bibaud, begins publishing this year- Dalry Burns Club established to honour the memory of Scottish poet Robert Burns; it claims the longest unbroken record of Burns suppers.
Poetry published
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld, The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, edited by Lucy Aikin
- Sara Coleridge, translator from the French of Jacques de Mailles, The History of the Chevalier Bayard
- Louisa Costello, Songs of a Stranger
- Allan Cunningham, editor, The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern, anthology
- Robert Davidson, Poems, Scotland
- Charles Dibdin the younger, Comic Tales and Lyrical Fancies
- Alexander Dyce, editor, Specimens of British Poetesses, anthology
- Felicia Dorothea Hemans, The Forest Sanctuary, and Other Poems
- Thomas Hood and J. H. Reynolds, published anonymously, Odes and Addresses to Great People
- Leigh Hunt, Bacchus in Tuscany, translated from the Italian, Bacco in Tuscana by Francesco Redi
- Maria Jane Jewsbury, Phantasmagoria, poetry and prose
- William Knox, Harp of Zion, Scotland
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing under the pen name "L. E. L.", The Troubador, Catalogue of Pictures, and Historical Sketches
- Robert Southey, ''A Tale of Paraguay''
United States">American poetry">United States
- John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, Occasional Pieces of Poetry, a well-received collection partly reprinting poems the author had contributed to the Connecticut Mirror, which he edited from 1822 to 1827
- William Cullen Bryant:
- * Lectures on Poetry, a series of four lectures given at the New York Athenaeum, presenting his theory of poetry, influenced by English Romantic poets; he also objected to the ideas that America lacked poetic material, that the country's language was too primitive for poetry and that American society was too pragmatic and materialistic to support a national poetry
- * A Forest Hymn
- * The Death of the Flowers
- Charles Follen, Hymns for Children
- Fitz-Greene Halleck, "Marco Bozzaris", inspired by the death of Bozarris, a Greek hero in the war of independence against the Ottoman Empire; the work appeared in several periodicals and was praised, although Edgar Allan Poe criticized it as lacking in lyricism
- William Leggett, Leisure Hours at Sea
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poems published in several newspapers and the United States Literary Gazette include: "Autumnal Nightfall", "Woods in Winter", "The Angler's Song", and "Hymn of the Moravian Nuns"
- Edward Coote Pinkney, Poems, lyric verses including "Rudolph, a Fragment" ), in the style of Lord Byron
- William Gilmore Simms, Monody on Gen. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charleston
Other
- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Elégies et Poésies nouvelles, France
- Adam Mickiewicz, Crimean Sonnets, Poland
- Kondraty Ryleyev, Rogneda, Russia, approximate date
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 11 - Bayard Taylor, American poet and travel writer
- May 4 - Thomas Henry Huxley, English evolutionist and occasional poet
- June 6 - Peter John Allan, Canadian poet
- July 20 or 25 - John Askham, English shoemaker and poet
- September 24 - Frances Harper, born Frances Ellen Watkins, black American poet and abolitionist
- October 30 - Adelaide Anne Procter, English poet and philanthropist
- Dhiro, Gujarati devotional poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- March 9 - Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet
- May 6 - Lady Anne Barnard, Scottish-born ballad and travel writer
- August 12 - Magdalene Sophie Buchholm, Norwegian poet
- August 27 - Lucretia Maria Davidson, American poet, of consumption
- November 12 - William Knox, Scottish poet, of a stroke
- December 5 - Mary Whateley, English poet and hymnodist