1798 in poetry

• 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.^[1]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 5 – David Macbeth Moir (died 1851), Scottish
• March 30 – Luise Hensel (died 1876), German
• April 8 – Dionysios Solomos Διονύσιος Σολωμός (died 1857), Greek poet best known for the Hymn to Liberty, the first two stanzas of which become the Greek national anthem
• April 19 – Andrea Maffei (died 1885), Italian poet, translator and librettist
• June 18 – McDonald Clarke (died 1842), American
• June 29 – Count Giacomo Leopardi (died 1837), Italian
• September 20 – Samuel Henry Dickson (died 1872), American poet, physician, writer and educator
• December 24 – Adam Mickiewicz (died 1855), Polish Romantic poet
• c. 1798–1800 – Charles Jeremiah Wells (died 1879), English

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• April 11 – Karl Wilhelm Ramler (born 1724), German poet
• May 28 – Mary Alcock (born 1742), English poet, essayist and philanthropist
• October 14 – Robert Merry (born 1755), English poet and dilettante, died in the United States.
• November 23 – David Samwell, known as Dafydd Ddu Feddyg (born 1751), Welsh naval surgeon and poet
• Also:
  • Edmund Gardner (born c. 1752), English
  • St. John Honeywood (born 1763), American^[6]
  • Waris Shah (born 1722), Punjabi Sufi poet

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