1800 in poetry

Events

• January 10 - The Serampore Mission and Press is established in Serampore India by Baptist missionaries Joshua Marshman and William Ward. The press would grow into the largest in Asia, printing books in nearly every Indian language.
• October 3 - William and Dorothy Wordsworth, walking near Grasmere, encounter a leech gatherer who inspires his poem "Resolution and Independence", first written 18 months later and published in 1807.
• William Blake begins 3 years residence in a cottage at Felpham in Sussex to illustrate the works of William Hayley; here he begins work on his poem .

  Works published

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• Christopher Anstey, Contentment; or, Hints to Servants on the Present Scarcity
• Robert Bloomfield, The Farmer's Boy, with engravings by Thomas Bewick; 15 editions by 1827
• Robert Burns, The Works of Robert Burns
• George Canning, editor, Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, collection of poems which had appeared in the Anti-Jacobin magazine; four editions by 1801, London: J. Wright, anthology
• Joseph Cottle, Alfred
• William Gifford, Epistle to Peter Pindar, satire addressed to John Wolcot
• William Hayley, An Essay on Sculpture
• M. G. Lewis and others, Tales of Wonder, poems and fiction; includes "Glenfinlas" and other poems by Sir Walter Scott; published this year, although book states "1801"
• Thomas Moore, Odes of Anacreon
• William Sotheby:
• * The Georgics of Virgil
• * The Siege of Cuzco: A tragedy

  United States">American poetry">United States

• William Cliffton, Poems, Chiefly Occasional, by the late Mr. Cliffton. To Which are Prefixed, Introductory Notices of the Life, Character and Writings, of the Author, and an Engraved Likeness, New York: Printed for J. W. Fenno, by G. & R. Waite, published posthumously

  On the death of [George Washington]

• Richard Alsop, "A Poem, Sacred to the Memory of George Washington", dedicated to Martha Washington; among the most widely read of the many eulogies published in the United States on the death of Washington
• Charles Caldwell, An Elegiac Poem on the Death of General Washington
• John Blair Linn, The Death of Washington. A Poem. In Imitation of the Manner of Ossian. By Rev. John Blair Linn, Philadelphia: Printed by John Ormrod; a book-length poem criticized for treating Washington in the style of the Celtic poet
• Sacred Dirges, Hymns, and Anthems, Commemorative of the Death of General George Washington, The Guardian of His Country, and The Friend of Man. Born Feb. 22, 1732. Died, at Mount Vernon, Dec. 14, 1799. Aged 68. An Original Composition, including a poem by Susanna Haswell Rowson writing under the pseudonym "a citizen of Massachusetts", Boston: Printed at Boston, by I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, anthology
• Hymns and Odes Composed on the Death of General George Washington, contributors include Thomas Paine, Charles Brockton Brown and Richard Alsop

  Works published in other languages

• Pritharam Dvija, translator, Svargarohan Parva, translation into Assamese from the original Sanskrit of the last canto of the Mahabharata; India
• Christian Adolf Overbeck, translator, Anakreon und Sappho, from the original Ancient Greek of Anacreon and Sappho; Lubeck: F. Bohn

  Births

• September 28 - Sibella Elizabeth Miles, English poet, writer and schoolteacher
• October 14 - Charles Neaves, Scottish judge and poet
• October 18 - Sir Henry Taylor, English playwright, author and poet
• October 25 - Thomas Babington Macaulay, English poet, historian and Whig politician of Scottish ancestry
• December 4 - Emil Aarestrup, Danish
• Also:
• * c.1798-1800 - Charles Jeremiah Wells, English
• *Asir Muzaffar Ali Khan, Urdu-language Indian poet also writing in Persian and whose ghazals are compiled into six diwans
• * Godavardhana, Kerala-born Indian poet writing many of his poems in Sanskrit
• * Mohammad Momin Khan,, Indian, Urdu-language poet

  Deaths

• February 23 - Joseph Warton, English poet and critic
• April 25 - William Cowper, pronounced "Cooper", English poet and hymn writer
• June 29 - Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German
• September 29 - Michael Denis, Austrian writer, poet, translator, librarian and zoologist
• December 26 - Mary Robinson, English actress, poet, dramatist, novelist and royal mistress
• Also:
• * Arnimal, Indian, Kashmiri poet; a woman
• * Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill, Irish noblewoman and poet, composer of Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire