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United Kingdom
- Lucy Aikin, editor and contributor, Poetry for Children, includes poems by John Dryden, Alexander Pope and Anna Barbauld (anthology)[3]
- William Lisle Bowles, The Sorrows of Switzerland[3]
- Sir James Burges, Richard the First[3]
- Robert Burns, Poems Ascribed to Robert Burns (posthumous)[3]
- Hannah Cowley, The Siege of Acre[3]
- George Dyer, Poems[3]
- George Ellis, ed., Specimens of the Early English Poets, 2nd edition
- Matthew Gregory Lewis, editor, Tales of Wonder, anthology of fantasy and horror poetry, London: "Printed by W. Bulmer...for the Author"[4]
- James Hogg, Scottish Pastorals, Poems, Songs[3]
- Thomas Moore:
- Corruption and Intolerance, published anonymously[3]
- The Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Little[3]
- Henry James Pye, Alfred[3]
- William Barnes Rhodes, The Satires of Juvenal[3]
- Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer
- William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems, 2nd edition, including "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads", two volumes; first volume, under Wordsworth's name but containing poems by Coleridge, published in January 1801, although book states "1800"[3]
United States
- Paul Allen, Original Poems, Serious and Entertaining[5]
- St. John Honeywood, Poems by St. John Honeywood ... With Some Pieces in Prose, New York: T. & J. Swords, United States[6]
- John Blair Linn, The Powers of Genius, popular poem with heroic couplets in three parts[5]
- Jonathan Mitchell Sewall, Miscellaneous Poems, many of them patriotic and political, including "Profiles of Eminent Men"[5]
- Isaac Story, A Parnassian Shop, Opened in the Pindaric Stile, by Peter Quince, Esq., satirical verses against the Democratic Republicans, written in the style of "Peter Pindar" (John Wolcot)[5]
Indian subcontinent
- Vinayaka Bhatta, Angreja Candrika, Sanskrit poem on the glory of the British[2]
- Mal (Jaina poet), Satbandhava Rasa, long, narrative Gujarati-language poem[2]
- Krishna Kaur Mishra, Sriyanka, Sanskrit epic in 16 cantos about the early history of the Sikhs[2]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 14 (March 2 O.S.) – Kristjan Jaak Peterson (died 1822), "father of Estonian poetry"
- February 21 – John Henry Newman (died 1890), English Roman Catholic cardinal, theologian, author and poet
- February 22 – William Barnes (died 1886), English writer, poet, minister, and philologist
- June 24 – Caroline Clive, also known as "Caroline Wigley Clive" (died 1873), English
- date unknown
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 2 – Johann Kaspar Lavater (born 1741), Swiss clergyman, philosopher, writer and poet
- January 9 – Margaretta Faugères (born 1771, American playwright, poet and political activist
- February 6 – Annis Boudinot Stockton (born 1736), American poet and sponsor of literary salons[7]
- February 23 – Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson (born 1737), American poet and sponsor of literary salons[7]
- March 14 – Ignacy Krasicki (born 1735), Polish Enlightenment poet ("the Prince of Poets"), Poland's La Fontaine, author of the first Polish novel, playwright, journalist, encyclopedist and translator from French and Greek
- March 25 – Friedrich von Hardenberg (born 1772), German writer, poet, mystic, philosopher and civil engineer
- March 25 – Novalis (born 1772), writer, poet and philosopher of early German Romanticism
- May 10 – Richard Gall (born 1776), Scottish
- August 11 – Félix María de Samaniego (born 1745), Spanish
- November 5 – Motoori Norinaga 本居宣長 (born 1730), Japanese Edo period scholar of Kokugaku, physician and poet
- December 23 – James Hurdis (born 1763), English clergyman and poet
- Also:
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
Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto