1807 in poetry

Events

Works published

Ireland">Irish poetry">Ireland

• Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• Sydney Owenson, The Lay of an Irish Harp; or, Metrical Fragments, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

  United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• Eaton Stannard Barrett, writing under the pen name "Polypus", All the Talents: A satirical poem, the book went through 19 editions this year
• Samuel Egerton Brydges, Poems, the fourth, enlarged edition of Sonnets and other Poems 1785
• Lord Byron:
• * Hours of Idleness, which will be attacked in the Edinburgh Review
• * Poems on Various Occasions, published anonymously, privately printed
• George Crabbe, Poems, including "The Parish Register", nine editions by 1817
• Richard Cumberland and Sir James Burges, The Exodiad
• Catherine Ann Dorset, The Peacock 'At Home', published anonymously ; for children; extremely popular; a sequel to William Roscoe's The Butterfly's Ball, also published this year
• James Grahame, Poems
• Lady Anne Hamilton, The Epics of the Ton; or, The Glories of the Great World
• William Hazlitt, editor, The Eloquence of the British Senate, published anonymously
• James Hogg, Thomas Mounsey Cunningham and others, The Forest Minstrel, includes poems published anonymously
• James Hogg, The Mountain Bard
• Ewen MacLachlan, Attempts in Verse
• Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies
• Sydney Owenson, The Lay of an Irish Harp; or, Metrical Fragments
• William Roscoe, The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast, first published in the Gentleman's Magazine in November 1806
• Charlotte Turner Smith, Beachy Head, with Other Poems
• William Sotheby, Saul
• Robert Southey, editor, Specimens of the Later English Poets, published as a complement to George Ellis's Specimens of the Early English Poems, 1790; anthology
• Henry Kirke White, The Remains of Henry Kirke White, edited by Robert Southey

Wordsworth's ''Poems in Two Volumes''

• "Resolution and Independence"
• "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
• "My Heart Leaps Up"
• ""
• "Ode to Duty"
• "The Solitary Reaper"
• "Elegiac Stanzas"
• "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"
• "London, 1802"
• "The world is too much with us"

  United States">American poetry">United States

• 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, 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 Nations

  Other

• Adam Oehlenschlager, Nordiske Digte, including plays Denmark

  Births

• February 27 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and academic
• April 10 - Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, Indian teacher and poet
• August 31 - Thomas Miller, English "ploughman poet" and novelist
• September 9 - Richard Chenevix Trench, Anglo-Irish Anglican archbishop and poet
• October 18 - Thomas Holley Chivers, American physician and poet
• November 16 - Jónas Hallgrímsson, Icelandic poet
• November 17 - Vladimir Benediktov, Russian poet and translator
• December 17 - John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet
• Also - Robert Montgomery, English poetaster and clergyman

  Deaths

• December 3 - Clara Reeve, English novelist and poet
• December 21 - John Newton, English Anglican clergyman, former slave-ship captain, author of many hymns, including "Amazing Grace"
• Approximate date - Magtymguly Pyragy, Turkmen spiritual leader and poet