1801 in poetry

Events

• July 21 - Greenock Burns Club established to honour the memory of Scottish poet Robert Burns.
• The second edition of Specimens of the Early English Poets, edited by George Ellis and covering poems from the Old English through to the 17th century, is influential in acquainting the general reading public with Middle English poetry, going through a further 4 editions.
• Hindusthani Press established in Calcutta, India by John Gilchrist.

  Works published in English

United Kingdom

• Lucy Aikin, editor and contributor, Poetry for Children, includes poems by John Dryden, Alexander Pope and Anna Barbauld
• William Lisle Bowles, The Sorrows of Switzerland
• Sir James Burges, Richard the First
• Robert Burns, Poems Ascribed to Robert Burns
• Hannah Cowley, The Siege of Acre
• George Dyer, Poems
• George Ellis, ed., Specimens of the Early English Poets, 2nd edition
• Matthew Gregory Lewis, editor, Tales of Wonder, anthology of fantasy and horror poetry, London: "Printed by W. Bulmer...for the Author"
• James Hogg, Scottish Pastorals, Poems, Songs
• Thomas Moore:
• * Corruption and Intolerance, published anonymously
• * The Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Little
• Henry James Pye, Alfred
• William Barnes Rhodes, The Satires of Juvenal
• Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer
• William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems, 2nd edition, including "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads", two volumes; first volume, under Wordsworth's name but containing poems by Coleridge, published in January 1801, although book states "1800"

  United States

• Paul Allen, Original Poems, Serious and Entertaining
• St. John Honeywood, Poems by St. John Honeywood... With Some Pieces in Prose, New York: T. & J. Swords, United States
• John Blair Linn, The Powers of Genius, popular poem with heroic couplets in three parts
• Jonathan Mitchell Sewall, Miscellaneous Poems, many of them patriotic and political, including "Profiles of Eminent Men"
• Isaac Story, A Parnassian Shop, Opened in the Pindaric Stile, by Peter Quince, Esq., satirical verses against the Democratic Republicans, written in the style of "Peter Pindar"

  Works published in other languages

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• Vinayaka Bhatta, Angreja Candrika, Sanskrit poem on the glory of the British
• Mal, Satbandhava Rasa, long, narrative Gujarati-language poem
• Krishna Kaur Mishra, Sriyanka, Sanskrit epic in 16 cantos about the early history of the Sikhs

  Births

• March 14 - Kristjan Jaak Peterson, "father of Estonian poetry"
• February 21 - John Henry Newman, English Roman Catholic cardinal, theologian, author and poet
• February 22 - William Barnes, English writer, poet, minister, and philologist
• June 24 - Caroline Clive, also known as "Caroline Wigley Clive", English
• date not known - Kaviyo Ramnath, Indian, Rajasthani-language poet

  Deaths

• January 2 - Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss clergyman, philosopher, writer and poet
• January 9 - Margaretta Faugères, American poet and sponsor of literary salons
• February 23 - Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, American poet and sponsor of literary salons
• March 14 - Ignacy Krasicki, Polish Enlightenment poet, Poland's La Fontaine, author of the first Polish novel, playwright, journalist, encyclopedist and translator from French and Greek
• March 25 - Friedrich von Hardenberg, German writer, poet, mystic, philosopher and civil engineer
• March 25 - Novalis, writer, poet and philosopher of early German Romanticism
• May 10 - Richard Gall, Scottish
• August 11 - Félix María de Samaniego, Spanish
• November 5 - Motoori Norinaga 本居宣長, Japanese Edo period scholar of Kokugaku, physician and poet
• December 23 - James Hurdis, English clergyman and poet
• Also:
• * Jean Glover, Scottish poet and singer, died in Ireland
• * Lemuel Hopkins, American