1835 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). November/December – The Federal Convention in Germany prohibits circulation of work by members of the "Young Germany" group of writers and the exiled poet Heinrich Heine.
1801 in poetryNationality 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.
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.
1863 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 1 – American essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson commemorates today's Emancipation Proclamation by composing "Boston Hymn" and surprising a crowd of 3,000 with its debut reading at Boston Music Hall. May 17 – Intimist poet Rosalía de Castro published her first collection in Galician, Cantares gallegos ("Galician Songs"), commemorated every year as the Día das Letras Galegas ("Galician Literature Day"), an official holiday of the Autonomous Community of Galicia in Spain.
