1797 in poetry

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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]

Works wrongly dated this year

• Robert Southey, Poems, actually published in 1796, although the title page states "1797"[4]

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[7]
  • 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

1. "Samuel Taylor Coleridge". Britain UnLimited. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
2. Kellett, Keith. "Wordsworth's Lakes". TimeTravel Britain. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
3. Holmes, Richard (1989). Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772–1804. New York: Pantheon Books. p. 171. ISBN 978-067-08-0444-3.
4. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
5. McBride, I. R. (2004). "Drennan, William (1754–1820)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8046. Retrieved 2013-08-19. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
6. Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
7. Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009. [https://www.webcitation.org/5hj0MKjXH Archived 2009-06-22.