The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:Little we see in Nature that is ours;We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Ireland
Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies, Irish poet published in the United KingdomSydney Owenson (later Lady Morgan), The Lay of an Irish Harp; or, Metrical Fragments, Irish poet published in the United KingdomEaton Stannard Barrett, writing under the pen name "Polypus", All the Talents: A satirical poem, the book went through 19 editions this yearSamuel Egerton Brydges, Poems, the fourth, enlarged edition of Sonnets and other Poems 1785Lord Byron:Hours of Idleness, which will be attacked in the Edinburgh ReviewPoems on Various Occasions, published anonymously, privately printedGeorge Crabbe, Poems, including "The Parish Register", nine editions by 1817Richard Cumberland and Sir James Burges, The ExodiadCatharine Ann Dorset, The Peacock 'At Home', published anonymously ("written by a lady"); for children; extremely popular; a sequel to William Roscoe's The Butterfly's Ball, also published this yearJames Grahame, PoemsLady Anne Hamilton, The Epics of the Ton; or, The Glories of the Great WorldWilliam Hazlitt, editor, The Eloquence of the British Senate, published anonymously (anthology)James Hogg, Thomas Mounsey Cunningham and others, The Forest Minstrel, includes poems published anonymouslyJames Hogg, The Mountain BardEwen MacLachlan, Attempts in VerseThomas Moore, Irish MelodiesSydney Owenson (later Lady Morgan), The Lay of an Irish Harp; or, Metrical FragmentsWilliam Roscoe, The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast, first published in the Gentleman's Magazine in November 1806Charlotte Turner Smith, Beachy Head, with Other PoemsWilliam Sotheby, SaulRobert Southey, editor, Specimens of the Later English Poets, published as a complement to George Ellis's Specimens of the Early English Poems, 1790; anthologyHenry Kirke White, The Remains of Henry Kirke White, edited by Robert Southey (posthumous)William Wordsworth's, Poems in Two Volumes includes:
"Resolution and Independence""I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (sometimes anthologized as "The Daffodils")"My Heart Leaps Up""Ode: Intimations of Immortality""Ode to Duty""The Solitary Reaper""Elegiac Stanzas""Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802""London, 1802""The world is too much with us"Richard Alsop and others, The Echo, With Other Poems, anthology of poems by the Hartford Wits that had appeared in the American Mercury magazine from 1791 to 1805, the primary contributors were Richard Alsop and Theodore Dwight; other contributors included Lemuel Hopkins, H. H. Brackenridge (on the Indian War), Mason Cogswell, William Trumbull, Elihu Hubbard Smith; much of the contents consisted of pro-Federalist burlesques on social and political issues of the day; New York: "Printed at the Porcupine Press by Pasquin Petronius"Joel Barlow, The Columbiad, expansion and revision of The Vision of Columbus 1787, in heroic couplets; in the poem, Barlow predicts the building of the Panama Canal, airplanes, submarines and an organization resembling the United NationsAdam Oehlenschlager, Nordiske Digte ("Nordic Poems"), including plays DenmarkDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 27 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (died 1882), American poet and academicApril 10 – Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (died 1831), Indian teacher and poetSeptember 9 – Richard Chenevix Trench (died 1886), Anglican archbishop and poetOctober 18 – Thomas Holley Chivers (died 1858), American physician and poetNovember 16 – Jónas Hallgrímsson (died 1845), Icelandic poetNovember 17 – Vladimir Benediktov (died 1873), Russian poet and translatorDecember 17 – John Greenleaf Whittier (died 1892, AmericanAlso:Robert Montgomery (died 1855), EnglishBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
December 21 – John Newton (born 1725), English Anglican clergyman, former slave-ship captain, author of many hymns, including Amazing Gracedate not known – Clara Reeve (born 1729), English novelist and poet
