Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
William Wordsworth writes "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", inspired by an incident on April 15, 1802, in which Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, came across a "long belt" of daffodils. The poem will be first published in 1807 and published in revised form in 1815. It is titled "The Daffodils" in some anthologies.
Thomas Green Fessenden, Original Poems, collected from the author's submissions to newspapers, mostly literary and anti-Jacobin satires; the book is popular, especially one poem in it, "The Country Lovers"[2]
David Humphreys, The Miscellaneous Works of David Humphreys, Late Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to the Court of Madrid, New York: T. and J. Swords[3]
Susanna Haswell Rowson, Miscellaneous Poems; by Susanna Rowson, Preceptress of The Ladies' Academy, Newton, Mass., Boston: Gilbert and Dean;[3] the author's second and final collection, including songs set to music and longer patriotic pieces; a popular volume which never received critical approval[2]
year uncertain – John Williams, published under the pen name "Anthony Pasquin", The Hamiltoniad: or, An extinguisher for the royal faction of New-England. With copious notes, illustrative, biographical, philosophical, critical, admonitory, and political; being intended as a high-heeled shoe for all limping republicans, Boston, Massachusetts: "Sold for the Author at The Independent Chronicle Office"[4]Irish-born poet at this time living in the United States; a harsh satire attacking Alexander Hamilton and the Federalistrs; divided into three cantos, with extensive footnotes, including French and Latin quotations and snippets of correspondence between Hamilton and Aaron Burr[2]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: