1798 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). July 13 – William Wordsworth's poem Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour, 13 July 1798 written. William Wordsworth begins writing the first version of The Prelude, finishing it in two parts in 1799. This version describes the growth of his understanding up to age 17, when he departed for Cambridge University. He would revise the poem more than once during his lifetime but not publish it. Months after his death in 1850 it was published for the first time. Robert Anderson, Poems on Various Subjects William Lisle Bowles, St. Michael's Mount George Canning and J. H. Frere, The Loves of the Triangles, a parody of Erasmus Darwin's The Loves of the Plants Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Fears in Solitude, a small pamphlet including "Fears in Solitude: Written in April 1798, During the Alarm of an Invasion" "France: An Ode", first published as The Recantation: An Ode and later renamed; the poem mark's Coleridge's political turn away from revolutionary France after the French invasion of Switzerland; first published in the April 16 edition of the Morning Post "Frost at Midnight" See William Wordsworth, below for more information on Lyrical Ballads, a collection of Coleridge's and Wordsworth's poems, including Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere" (title later changed to Rime of the Ancient Mariner in the 1800 edition, in which the author also dropped much of the archaic wording) "The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem" Joseph Cottle, Malvern Hills William Cowper, "On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture" Thomas Gisborne, Poems, Sacred and Moral Charles Lamb and Charles Lloyd, Blank Verse, including Lamb's "The Old Familiar Faces" Richard Polwhele (anonymously), The Unsex'd Females Samuel Rogers, An Epistle to a Friend, with Other Poems William Sotheby, Oberon, translation from the original German of Christoph Martin Wieland William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published anonymously, Lyrical Ballads with a Few Other Poems (see Coleridge, above, for more on his contributions to the work; and see also Lyrical Ballads 1801, 1802, 1805 and 1815) including: "Lucy Gray" "Tintern Abbey" "We are Seven" The Lucy poems: "She dwelt among the untrodden ways" "A slumber did my spirit seal" "Strange fits of passion have I known" "Three years she grew in sun and shower" "I travelled among unknown men" Richard Alsop, with Lemuel Hopkins and Theodore Dwight, The Political Greenhouse Joseph Hopkinson, "Hail Columbia", a popular patriotic song, written during the war fever against France William Munford, Poems and Prose on Several Occasions, including a tragedy, translations from Horace, versifications of Ossian Judith Sargent Murray, The Gleaner Robert Treat Paine, Jr.

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1879 in poetry

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1799 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). August 1 – British Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson's defeat of the French fleet in the Battle of the Nile is the subject of separate poems this year by English poets William Lisle Bowles and William Sotheby. December 20 – William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy first take up residence at Dove Cottage, Grasmere. William Wordsworth completes the first version of The Prelude, begun in 1798.

1798 in poetry