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- Lucy Aikin, Epistles on Women[2]
- Sir Alexander Boswell, writing under the pen name "Simon Gray", Edinburgh; or, The Ancient Royalty [2]
- Lord Byron, "The Maid of Athens"
- George Crabbe, The Borough in 24 epistles, including one on "Peter Grimes", a poem based on Aldeburgh
- Ebenezer Elliott, Night[2]
- Mary Elliott, The Mice and the Pic Nic, published anonymously "by a Looking-glass Maker"; for children[2]
- Gammer Gurton, Garland or the Nursery Parnassus, including "Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep"
- Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb, writing together under the pen name "W. F. Mylius", The First Book of Poetry, has 22 items from Poetry for Children (1809), and selections from other authors and a new poem, "A Birth-Day Thought"; 10 editions by 1828, anthology[2]
- Mary Russell Mitford, Poems[2]
- Samuel Rogers, The Voyage of Columbus[2]
- Walter Scott:
- Anna Seward, Poetical Works, edited by Walter Scott[2]
- P. B. Shelley and Elizabeth Shelley (his sister), Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire, published anonymously[2]
- P. B. Shelley and Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson, published anonymously[2]
- William Sotheby, Constance of Castille[2]
- Robert Southey, The Curse of Kehama[2]
- Ann Taylor, Jane Taylor and others, Hymns for Infant Minds[2]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 23 – Margaret Fuller (drowned 1850), American journalist, critic, editor, poet and women's rights activist associated with the American Transcendentalism movement
- June 7 – Friedrich Julius Hammer (died 1862), German poet
- July 17 – Martin Farquhar Tupper (died 1889), English writer, and poet,
- December 11 – Alfred de Musset (died 1857), French dramatist, poet, and novelist
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
- "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto