1797 in poetry explained

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• June 5  - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, living at Nether Stowey in the Quantock Hills, renews his friendship with William Wordsworth and Wordsworth's sister, Dorothy, who take a house nearby.^[1]
• August  - The British Home Office sends an agent to Nether Stowey to investigate Coleridge and Wordsworth who are suspected of being French spies.^[2]
• October  - Coleridge composes Kubla Khan in an opium-induced dream and writes down only a fragment of it on waking.
• November  - Wordsworth suggests to Coleridge the theme of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner on a walk in the Quantocks.^[3]
• William Blake illustrates Edward Young's Night-Thoughts.

Works published

United Kingdom

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poems ... Second Edition^[4]
• William Drennan, The Wake of William Orr^[5]
• George Dyer, The Poet's Fate^[4]
• Alexander Pope, The Works of Alexander Pope, edited by Joseph Warton, posthumous^[4]
• Charlotte Smith, Elegaic Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 2, sequel to Elegaic Sonnets 1784^[4]
• Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins and Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, Tributes of Affection by a Lady and her Brother
• Mary Wollstonecraft, "On Poetry, and Our Relish for the Beauties of Nature", Monthly Magazine (April 1797), criticism

United States

• Sarah Wentworth Morton, publishing under the name "Philenia", Beacon Hill: A Local Poem, Historic and Descriptive, on the American Revolution; conventional verse in neoclassical form^[6]
• Robert Treat Paine Jr. "The Ruling Passion", the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa poem for this year^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Britain UnLimited. 2012-10-08.
2. Web site: Wordsworth's Lakes. Keith. Kellett. TimeTravel Britain. 2012-10-08.
3. Book: Holmes, Richard. Richard Holmes (biographer)

   . Richard Holmes (biographer). 1989. Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772–1804. New York. Pantheon Books. 978-067-08-0444-3. 171.

4. Book: Cox, Michael. The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. 2004. 0-19-860634-6. registration.
5. Web site: I. R.. McBride. Drennan, William (1754–1820). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2004. Online. 2013-08-19. 10.1093/ref:odnb/8046.
6. Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004,, retrieved via Google Books
7. Web page titled Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009. 2009-06-22.

   Works wrongly dated this year

   • Robert Southey
   ], Poems, actually published in 1796, although the title page states "1797"

   Births

   Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

   • January 10  - Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (died 1848), German
   • March 27  - Alfred de Vigny (died 1863), French poet, playwright and novelist
   • August 30  - Mary Shelley, née Godwin (died 1851), English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer and poet
   • October 13  - William Motherwell (died 1835), Scottish
   • December 13  - Heinrich Heine (died 1856), German
   • December 27  - Mirza Ghalib (died 1869), Indian classical Urdu and Persian poet
   • Also:
     • James Wallis Eastburn (died 1819), American
     • George Moses Horton (died 1883), African-American

   Deaths

   Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

   • March 18  - Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter (born 1746), German poet and dramatist
   • April 7  - William Mason (born 1724), English poet, editor and gardener
   • June 28  - George Keate (born 1729), English poet and writer
   • Also:
     • Joseph Friedrich Engelschall (born 1739), German poet
     • Wang Zhenyi (born 1768), Chinese Qing dynasty female poet and astronomer
     • Yuan Mei (born 1716), Chinese Qing dynasty poet, scholar, artist and gastronome
     • Molla Panah Vagif (born 1717), Azerbaijani poet

   See also

   • Poetry

   Notes