Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
January–September – Samuel Taylor Coleridge serves as Acting Public Secretary in Malta.
William Wordsworth begins his first revision of The Prelude: or, Growth of a Poet's Mind in 13 Books, a version completed in 1806 and further revised later in his life. His work this year and next revised the original 1798-1799 version. The book was not published in any form until shortly after his death in 1850.
Robert Anderson, Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect
Henry Cary, translator, The Inferno of Dante Alighieri, parallel text
Charlotte Dacre, Hours of Solitude
George Ellis, editor, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances (anthology)
William Hayley, Ballads
Charles Lamb, The King and Queen of Hearts, published anonymously; for children
Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Robert Southey, Madoc
William Taylor, translation from the original German by G. E. Lessing, Nathan the Wise, first privately printed in 1791
John Thelwall, The Trident of Albion, on the Battle of Trafalgar
Mary Tighe, Psyche, or the Legend of Love
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems, the last separate edition, with some variants in the poems; previous editions in 1798, 1801, 1802
The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog
Thomas Green Fessenden, Democracy Unveiled
John Blair Linn, Valerian, A Narrative Poem: Intended, in Part, to Describe the Early Persecutions of Christians, and Rapidly to Illustrate the Influence of Christianity on the Manners of Nations, By John Blair Linn ... With a Sketch of the Life and Character of the Author, Philadelphia: Thomas and George Palmer
Alexander Wilson, The Foresters
Adam Oehlenschlager, Poetiske Skrifter ("Poetic Writings"), prose and poetry, narrative cycles, drama, lyrics, ballads and romances, including "Aladdin", a philosophical fairy-tale drama in blank verse; Denmark
Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano, edited and composed, Des Knaben Wunderhorn, vol.