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1801 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
July 21 – Greenock Burns Club established to honour the memory of Scottish poet Robert Burns (died 1796).
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.
Lucy Aikin, editor and contributor, Poetry for Children, includes poems by John Dryden, Alexander Pope and Anna Barbauld (anthology)
William Lisle Bowles, The Sorrows of Switzerland
Sir James Burges, Richard the First
Robert Burns, Poems Ascribed to Robert Burns (posthumous)
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"
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.
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