Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
January 10 – The Serampore Mission and Press is established in Serampore (now part of West Bengal) 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 Milton.
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 (posthumous)
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
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
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
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
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
September 28 – Sibella Elizabeth Miles (died 1882), English poet, writer and schoolteacher
October 14 – Charles Neaves (died 1876), Scottish judge and poet
October 18 – Sir Henry Taylor (died 1884), English playwright, author and poet
October 25 – Thomas Babington Macaulay (died 1859), English poet, historian and Whig politician of Scottish ancestry
December 4 – Emil Aarestrup (died 1856), Danish
Also:
c.1798–1800 – Charles Jeremiah Wells (died 1879), English
Asir Muzaffar Ali Khan (died 1861), Urdu-language Indian poet also writing in Persian and whose ghazals are compiled into six diwans
Godavardhana (died 1851), Kerala-born Indian poet writing many of his poems in Sanskrit
Mohammad Momin Khan, (died 1851), Indian, Urdu-language poet (surname: Momin)
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 23 – Joseph Warton (born 1722), English poet and critic
April 25 – William Cowper, pronounced "Cooper" (born 1731), English poet and hymn writer
June 29 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (born 1719), German
September 29 – Michael Denis (born 1729), Austrian writer, poet, translator, librarian and zoologist
December 26 – Mary Robinson (born 1757), English actress, poet, dramatist, novelist and royal mistress
Also:
Arnimal (birth year not known), Indian, Kashmiri poet; a woman
Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (born 1743), Irish noblewoman and poet, composer of Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire
