1803 in poetry
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Events
Works published
- Peter Bayley, Poems, includes parodies of works by William Wordsworth, including "The Fisherman's Wife," a parody of "The Idiot Boy"; "The Ivy Seat" parodying the Lucy poems; "Evining in the Vale of Festinog", parodying "Tintern Abbey"; "The Forest Fay", parodies Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"; London: printed for William Miller by W. Bulmer and Co.[2]
- Sir Alexander Boswell, The Spirit of Tintoc; or, Johnny Bell and the Kelpie, published anonymously[3]
- William Lisle Bowles, The Picture[3]
- Thomas Campbell, Poems, includes the 7th edition of The Pleasures of Hope (1799) and new works, including "Lochiel's Warning", "Hohenlinden", and "The Soldier's Dream"[3]
- Thomas Chatterton, The Works of Thomas Chatterton, Containing His Life, by G. Gregory, D.D., and Miscellaneous Poems, three volumes, London: printed by Briggs and Cottle, for T. N. Longman and O. Rees,[2] posthumous
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poems: Third Edition, a reprint of Poems ... Second Edition (1797) omitting poems by Charles Lamb and Lloyd[3] London: printed by N. Biggs for T. N. Longman and O. Rees[2]
- Erasmus Darwin, The Temple of Nature; or, The Origin of Society[3]
- Charles Dibdin, The Professional Life of Mr. Dibdin[3]
- Henry Kirke White, Clifton Grove[3]
United States
- J. Warren Brackett, The Ghost of Law, or Anarchy and Despotism, A Poem, Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa, Dartmouth College, at Their Anniversary, August 23, 1803, Hanover, New Hampshire: printed by Moses Davis (24 pages)[2]
- Thomas Fessenden, A Terrible Tractoration, a satire on medical quackery, vivisection, animal crossbreeding and scientific theories of some French and English naturalists, including Comte Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon and Erasmus Darwin[4]
Other
Works published in other languages
- C. Stanislaus Bouflers, Oeuvres ("Works"), Paris: L. Pelletier[2]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1 – Richard Henry Horne (died 1884), English poet and critic
- January 19 – Sarah Helen Whitman (died 1878), American poet, essayist, transcendentalist, spiritualist and a romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe
- May 1 – James Clarence Mangan (died 1849), Irish
- May 25 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, (died 1882) American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement
- June 25 – Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, (died 1844), American poet and teacher[6]
- June 30 – Thomas Lovell Beddoes (died 1849) English poet and playwright
- December 3 – Robert Stephen Hawker, also known as Stephen Hawker (died 1875), English Anglican clergyman, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall, and reputed eccentric
- December 6 – Susanna Moodie (died 1855), British born Canadian author and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 18 – Ippolit Bogdanovich (born 1743), Russian classicist author of light poetry, best known for his long poem Dushenka
- February 9 – Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (born 1716)
- February 18 – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim (born 1719), German poet
- March 14 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (born 1724), German poet[7]
- June 22 – Wilhelm Heinse (born 1746), German author and poet
- August 18 – James Beattie (born 1735), Scottish scholar, writer and poet
- August 25 – Johann Gottfried Herder (born 1744), German philosopher, poet, and literary critic
- September 23 – Joseph Ritson (born 1752), English antiquary and anthologist
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See also
Notes
- ^ 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
- ^ a b c d e search results page at American Antiquarian Booksellers' Association website, retrieved March 4, 2009
- ^ a b c d e f g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ 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
- ^ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
- ^ Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328
- [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
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