1800 in poetry
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Events
- January 10 – The Serampore Mission and Press is established in Serampore (now part of West Bengal) India by Baptist missionaries Joshua Marshman and William Ward. The press would grow into the largest in Asia, printing books in nearly every Indian language.[1]
Works published
- Christopher Anstey, Contentment; or, Hints to Servants on the Present Scarcity[2]
- Robert Bloomfield, The Farmer's Boy, with engravings by Thomas Bewick; 15 editions by 1827[2]
- Robert Burns, The Works of Robert Burns (posthumous)[2]
- George Canning, editor, Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, collection of poems which had appeared in the Anti-Jacobin magazine; four editions by 1801, London: J. Wright, anthology[3]
- Joseph Cottle, Alfred[2]
- William Gifford, Epistle to Peter Pindar, satire addressed to John Wolcot[2]
- William Hayley, An Essay on Sculpture[2]
- M. G. Lewis and others, Tales of Wonder, poems and fiction; includes poems by Sir Walter Scott; published this year, although book states "1801"[2]
- Thomas Moore, Odes of Anacreon[2]
- William Sotheby:
- The Georgics of Virgil[2]
- The Siege of Cuzco: A tragedy[2]
- William Cliffton, Poems, Chiefly Occasional, by the late Mr. Cliffton. To Which are Prefixed, Introductory Notices of the Life, Character and Writings, of the Author, and an Engraved Likeness, New York: Printed for J. W. Fenno, by G. & R. Waite,[4] published posthumously
- Richard Alsop, "A Poem, Sacred to the Memory of George Washington", dedicated to Martha Washington; among the most widely read of the many eulogies published in the United States on the death of Washington[5]
- Charles Caldwell, An Elegiac Poem on the Death of General Washington[6]
- John Blair Linn, The Death of Washington. A Poem. In Imitation of the Manner of Ossian. By Rev. John Blair Linn, Philadelphia: Printed by John Ormrod;[4] a book-length poem criticized for treating Washington in the style of the Celtic poet[5]
- Sacred Dirges, Hymns, and Anthems, Commemorative of the Death of General George Washington, The Guardian of His Country, and The Friend of Man. Born Feb. 22, 1732. Died, at Mount Vernon, Dec. 14, 1799. Aged 68. An Original Composition, including a poem by Susanna Haswell Rowson writing under the pseudonym "a citizen of Massachusetts", Boston: Printed at Boston, by I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, anthology[4]
- Hymns and Odes Composed on the Death of General George Washington, contributors include Thomas Paine, Charles Brockton Brown and Richard Alsop[7]
Works published in other languages
Births
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Deaths
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See also
Notes
- ^ a b c d e Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events, 1800–1910", A History of Indian Literature: Western Impact, Indian Response, 1800–1910, Publisher: Sahitya Akademi, 2006, retrieved via Google Books, July 16, 2009
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b search results page at American Antiquarian Booksellers' Association website, retrieved March 4, 2009
- ^ a b c Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
- ^ a b Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
- ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Carruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
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