1797 in poetry
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Events
- June 5 â Samuel Taylor Coleridge, living at Nether Stowey in the Quantock Hills, renews his friendship with William Wordsworth and Wordsworth's sister, Dorothy, who take a house nearby.[1]
- August â The British Home Office sends an agent to Nether Stowey to investigate Coleridge and Wordsworth who are suspected of being French spies.[2]
- October â Coleridge composes Kubla Khan in an opium-induced dream and writes down only a fragment of it on waking.
- November â Wordsworth suggests to Coleridge the theme of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner on a walk in the Quantocks.[3]
- William Blake illustrates Edward Young's Night-Thoughts.
Works published
United Kingdom
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poems ... Second Edition[4]
- William Drennan, The Wake of William Orr[5]
- George Dyer, The Poet's Fate[4]
- Alexander Pope, The Works of Alexander Pope, edited by Joseph Warton, posthumous[4]
- Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 2, sequel to Elegiac Sonnets 1784[4]
- Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins and Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, Tributes of Affection by a Lady and her Brother
- Mary Wollstonecraft, "On Poetry, and Our Relish for the Beauties of Nature", Monthly Magazine (April 1797), criticism
United States
- Sarah Wentworth Morton, publishing under the name "Philenia", Beacon Hill: A Local Poem, Historic and Descriptive, on the American Revolution; conventional verse in neoclassical form[6]
- Robert Treat Paine Jr. "The Ruling Passion", the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa poem for this year[7]
Works wrongly dated this year
- Robert Southey, Poems, actually published in 1796, although the title page states "1797"[4]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 10 â Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (died 1848), German
- March 27 â Alfred de Vigny (died 1863), French poet, playwright and novelist
- August 30 â Mary Shelley, née Godwin (died 1851), English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer and poet
- October 13 â William Motherwell (died 1835), Scottish
- December 13 â Heinrich Heine (died 1856), German
- December 27 â Mirza Ghalib (died 1869), Indian classical Urdu and Persian poet
- Also:
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 18 â Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter (born 1746), German poet and dramatist
- April 7 â William Mason (born 1724), English poet, editor and gardener
- June 28 â George Keate (born 1729), English poet and writer
- Also:
- Joseph Friedrich Engelschall (born 1739), German poet
- Wang Zhenyi (born 1768), Chinese Qing dynasty female poet and astronomer
- Yuan Mei (born 1716), Chinese Qing dynasty poet, scholar, artist and gastronome
- Molla Panah Vagif (born 1717), Azerbaijani poet
