1805 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- January–September – Samuel Taylor Coleridge serves as Acting Public Secretary in Malta.
- William Wordsworth begins his first revision of The Prelude: or, Growth of a Poet's Mind in 13 Books, a version completed in 1806 and further revised later in his life. His work this year and next revised the original 1798-1799 version. The book was not published in any form until shortly after his death in 1850.[1]
Works published
United Kingdom
- Robert Anderson, Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect[2]
- Henry Cary, translator, The Inferno of Dante Alighieri, parallel text[2]
- Charlotte Dacre, Hours of Solitude[2]
- George Ellis, editor, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances (anthology)[2]
- William Hayley, Ballads[2]
- Charles Lamb, The King and Queen of Hearts, published anonymously; for children[2]
- Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel
- Robert Southey, Madoc
- John Thelwall, The Trident of Albion, on the Battle of Trafalgar[2]
- Mary Tighe, Psyche, or the Legend of Love
- William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems, the last separate edition, with some variants in the poems; previous editions in 1798, 1801, 1802[2]
- The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog
United States
- Thomas Green Fessenden, Democracy Unveiled[3]
- John Blair Linn, Valerian, A Narrative Poem: Intended, in Part, to Describe the Early Persecutions of Christians, and Rapidly to Illustrate the Influence of Christianity on the Manners of Nations, By John Blair Linn ... With a Sketch of the Life and Character of the Author, Philadelphia: Thomas and George Palmer[4]
- Alexander Wilson, The Foresters[3]
Other
- Denmark[5]
- Germany
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 22 –
- March 20 – Thomas Cooper (died 1892), English Chartist, poet and religious lecturer
- May 26 – Scottish
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 5 – German poet and lipogrammatist
- May 9 – Germanpoet and dramatist
- August 3 – Christopher Anstey (born 1724) English writer and poet
See also
- Poetry
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- 19th century in literature
- 19th century in poetry
- Romantic poetry
- Golden Age of Russian Poetry (1800–1850)
- Goethe
- List of poets
Notes
- ^ Web page titled "The Thirteen Book / Prelude / by William Wordsworth / Edited by Mark L. Reed", at The Wordsworth Centre website, retrieved April 17, 2010
- ^ ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto