1802 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events[]

On April 15, William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy come across a "long belt" of daffodils, a circumstance which inspires "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", written in 1804, first published in 1807 and published in revised form in 1815. It is titled "The Daffodils" in some anthologies.
William Wordsworth writes the sonnet "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802."

Robert Bloomfield, Rural Tales, Ballads and Songs^[1]
Sir Alexander Boswell, Songs, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect^[1]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dejection: An Ode, first published October 4, 1802 in the Morning Post (see also Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, below, in which the poem was again published this year)
George Dyer, Poems^[1]
William Gifford, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis^[1]
Joseph Ritson, Ancient English Metrical Romances
Walter Savage Landor, Poetry by the author of Gebir^[1]
Amelia Opie, Poems
Sir Walter Scott, editor, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802-03), published anonymously, an anthology of ballads, Volume 3 published in 1893^[1]
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, new edition of Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems, published under Wordsworth's name but with poems by Coleridge as well; Preface of 1891 expanded and texts of numerous poems amended; includes Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode" (Later, revised editions: 1798, 1801, 1805)^[1]

John Blair Linn, The Powers of Genius, A Poem, in Three Parts, By John Blair Linn ... Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged, Philadelphia: John Conrad, & Co.; sold by M. and J. Conrad & Co., United States^[2]
Thomas Morris, Songs Political and Convivial, United States^[3]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

February 11 – Lydia Maria Child (died 1880), American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Indian rights activist, novelist, journalist and poet; author of "Over the River and Through the Woods"
February 26 – Victor Hugo (died 1885), French novelist, playwright and poet
July 28 – Winthrop Mackworth Praed (died 1839) English politician and poet
August 14 – Letitia Elizabeth Landon, also known as "L.E.L." (died 1838), English poet and novelist
August 28 – Thomas Aird (died 1876), Scottish
October 1 – Edward Coote Pinkney (died 1828), American poet, lawyer, sailor, professor, and editor
October 10 – George Pope Morris (died 1864), American editor, poet, and songwriter
December 23 – Sara Coleridge (died 1852), English poet and translator; daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Isaac Williams(died 1865) English poet and tractarian, a prominent member of the Oxford Movement

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

April 18 – Erasmus Darwin (born 1731), English physician, natural philosopher, physiologist, inventor and poet (grandfather of Charles Darwin)
20 June – Sophia Burrell (born 1750), English poet and playwright
September 17 – Richard Owen Cambridge (born 1717), English

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
↑ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
↑ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press

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