1795 in poetry

Events

• June 27 - Mary Robinson writes the poem January, 1795.
• August 21-September 26 - English poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy stay at 7 Great George Street, Bristol, during which time they meet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey and the latter poets' publisher Joseph Cottle.
• October 4 - Coleridge marries Sara Fricker at St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol. On November 14, Southey marries Sara's sister Edith in the same church.

  Works published

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• William Blake, Prophetic books:
• * The Book of Ahania, illuminated book with five intaglio plates; one known copy
• * The Book of Los, illuminated book with five intaglio plates
• * The Song of Los, illuminated book with 8 plates, five known copies
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sonnets on Eminent Characters, also known as Sonnets on Eminent Contemporaries, a series of 11 sonnets published in the Morning Chronicle from December 1, 1794 to January 29, this year; these three were published this year:
• * To William Godwin, Author of Political Justice ; published January 10
• * To Robert Southey, of Baliol College, Oxford, Author of the 'Retrospect,' and Other Poems ; published January 14
• * To Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. ; published January 29
• Joseph Cottle, published anonymously, Poems
• Ann Batten Cristall, Poetical Sketches
• William Drennan, Erin
• William Hayley, The National Advocates
• Walter Savage Landor:
• * Published anonymously, Moral Epistle to Lord Stanhope
• * The Poems of Walter Savage Landor, suppressed by the author
• Joseph Ritson, editor, Robin Hood: A Collection of all the Ancient Poems
• Robert Southey and Robert Lovell, Poems
• John Thelwall, Poems Written in Close Confinement in the Tower and Newgate, the author was arrested in 1794 and sent to the Tower of London

  United States">American poetry">United States

• Philip Morin Freneau, Poems Written Between the Years 1768 and 1794, 287 poems, including previously unpublished work and revised poems ; he published the work on his own printing press, but although he and the booksellers had high hopes for it, the reception is poor
• Robert Treat Paine, Jr., "The Invention of Letters" commencement verse delivered at Harvard University; described the history of thought, eulogized Washington and attacked Jacobins
• Isaac Story, Liberty
• Charles Pinkney Sumner, The Compass

  Births

• August 7 - Joseph Rodman Drake, American whose poetry is first published posthumously in 1835
• August 30 - Amable Tastu , French women of letters and poet
• September 15 - James Gates Percival, American poet and geologist
• September 29 - Kondraty Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary
• October 12 - Janet Hamilton, née Thomson, Scottish poet and essayist
• October 31 - John Keats, English Romantic lyric poet
• December 4 - Thomas Carlyle, Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian, teacher and critic
• Also - George Darley, Irish poet, novelist and critic

  Deaths

• February 11 - Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet and songwriter
• April 22 - Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin, Irish poet
• July 31 - Basílio da Gama, writing as Termindo Sipílio, Brazilian Jesuit and epic poet
• November 17 - Samuel Bishop, English poet, essayist and schoolmaster
• Also - Hedvig Sirenia, Swedish poet