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- 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.[3]
- Sir Alexander Boswell, The Spirit of Tintoc; or, Johnny Bell and the Kelpie, published anonymously[4]
- William Lisle Bowles, The Picture[4]
- 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"[4]
- 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,[3] posthumous
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poems: Third Edition, a reprint of Poems ... Second Edition (1797) omitting poems by Charles Lamb and Lloyd[4] London: printed by N. Biggs for T. N. Longman and O. Rees[3]
- Erasmus Darwin, The Temple of Nature; or, The Origin of Society[4]
- Charles Dibdin, The Professional Life of Mr. Dibdin[4]
- Henry Kirke White, Clifton Grove[4]
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)[3]
- 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[5]
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[7]
- 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 eccentric
- December 6 – Susanna Moodie (died 1855), English-born Canadian author and poet
- December 26 (December 14 O.S.) – Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (died 1882), Estonian author and poet
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[8]
- May 14 – William Smith (born 1727), Scottish American Episcopalian priest, educator, theologian, poet and historian[1]
- 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
- Also – Erika Liebman (born 1738), Swedish poet and academic
William Wordsworth: A Biography. The Later Years, 1803-1850. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1965.
Carruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.
"Bibliography". American Poetry Full-Text Database. University of Chicago Library. Retrieved 2009-03-04.
Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328