1879 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). October 10 – American poet Ethel Lynn Beers' collected works "All Quiet Along The Potomac" and Other Poems (including her most well-known work "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight") are published; the following day she dies aged 52 at Orange, New Jersey. Critic and poet Theodore Watts-Dunton takes the alcoholic poet Algernon Charles Swinburne into his permanent care at Watts' Putney home.
1820 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 16 - Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery by "Northamptonshire peasant poet" John Clare is published in England by John Taylor April 22 - Walter Scott is created 1st baronet of Abbotsford in the County of Roxburgh in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom The Cambridge Apostles, an intellectual discussion group, is established at the University of Cambridge in England John Keats begins showing worse signs of tuberculosis.
1827 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). First publication of the 16th century Scottish Bannatyne Manuscript begins in Edinburgh by the Bannatyne Club.
1805 in poetryNationality 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.
1799 in poetryNationality 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.
1876 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 24 – Première of first stage production of the poetic drama Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (published 1867) with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, in Christiania, Norway. Robert Bridges, The Growth of Love (revised and expanded in 1889) Robert Browning, Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper; with Other Poems Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark Edward Dowden, Poems Toru Dutt, A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields: Verse Translations and Poems, Bhowanipur, Calcutta: B.
