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Overview of the events of 1802 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France ).
Events
January 29 –
Greenock
Burns Club holds the first
Burns dinner , in
Alloway , in honour of
Scottish poet
Robert Burns (died
1796 ).
[1]
April 15 –
William Wordsworth and his sister
Dorothy , walking by
Ullswater near their home in the
Lake District of England, come across a "long belt" of daffodils, a circumstance which inspires his poem "
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud ", written in
1804 , first published in
1807 and in revised form in
1815 . It is titled "The Daffodils" in some anthologies.
May 3–9 – Having recollected in tranquility while walking on Barton Fell near Ullswater an experience of despondency,
William Wordsworth writes "The Leech-Gatherer", the first draft of his poem "
Resolution and Independence " (published in 1807).
Summer –
Adam Oehlenschläger writes at a sitting the poem "Guldhornene", introducing
Romanticism into
Danish poetry.
July 31 –
William Wordsworth , leaving London for
Dover and
Calais with
Dorothy , witnesses the early morning scene which he captures in his
Petrarchan sonnet "
Composed upon Westminster Bridge ". In Calais, he will meet his 9-year-old illegitimate daughter Caroline for the first time.
October 4 – Wordsworth marries Mary Hutchinson at
Brompton, Scarborough .
Henry Boyd completes the first full
English translation of Dante's Divine Comedy .
Poetry published
Anne Bannerman ,
Tales of Superstition and Chivalry , Scottish Gothic ballad collection
[2]
[3]
Robert Bloomfield , Rural Tales, Ballads and Songs
[4]
Sir
Alexander Boswell , Songs, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
[4]
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 is again published this year)
George Dyer , Poems
[4]
William Gifford , The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis
[4]
Joseph Ritson , Ancient English Metrical Romances
Walter Savage Landor , Poetry by the author of Gebir
[4]
Amelia Opie , Poems
Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin (died
1795 ), Timothy O'Sullivan's Pious Miscellany ,
Irish
Gaelic language poet published in Ireland
Walter Scott , editor,
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802–03), an anthology of ballads
[4]
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
1801 expanded and texts of numerous poems amended; includes Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode" (Later, revised editions:
1798 ,
1801 ,
1805 )
[4]
Other
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
[5]
Charles Morris, Songs Political and Convivial ,
United States
[6]
Births
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
March 14 –
Rangga Warsita (died
1873 ),
Javanese
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
December 31 –
Richard Henry Horne (died
1884 ),
English poet, critic and journalist, and public official in Australia
date not known –
Isaac Williams (died
1865 )
English poet and tractarian, a prominent member of the
Oxford Movement
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
See also
Notes
^ Mackay, James (2004). Burns: A Biography of Robert Burns . Darvel: Alloway Publishing. p. 688.
ISBN
0-907526-85-3 .
^ Craciun, Adriana (12 December 2002).
Fatal Women of Romanticism . Cambridge University Press. pp. 156–.
ISBN
978-1-139-43633-5 .
^ Garner, Katie (11 December 2017).
Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend: The Quest for Knowledge . Springer. pp. 89–.
ISBN
978-1-137-59712-0 .
^
a
b
c
d
e
f
g 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
^
Stephen, Leslie , ed. (1886).
"Burrell, Sophia" .
Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
[1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
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