1813 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

April 20 - Lord Byron and Thomas Moore visit Leigh Hunt in the Surrey Gaol.
April 23 - Byron takes Hunt some books to help with his composition of Francesca da Rimini.
June 17â18 - German poet Theodor KÃ¶rner, fighting with the KÃ¶niglich PreuÃisches Freikorps von LÃ¼tzow in the German campaign against Napoleon (War of the Sixth Coalition), composes the sonnet Abschied vom Leben ("Farewell to Life") while lying severely wounded.
August 25 - Theodor KÃ¶rner composes the patriotic lyric Schwertlied ("Sword Song") the night before his death in action at age 21.^[1]
Autumn - Robert Southey becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom after Walter Scott's refusal of the post.^[2]
First award of the Chancellor's Gold Medal for poetry at the University of Cambridge in England, to George Waddington for "Columbus".
KÄlidÄsa's 4th/5th century Sanskrit poem MeghadÅ«ta is first translated into English by Horace Hayman Wilson.

William Lisle Bowles, The Missionary, published anonymously^[3]
Lord Byron:
- The Bride of Abydos: A Turkish tale published in early December and within the month sells 6,000 copies, making Byron sought after in the London literary scene as he receives invitations daily
- The Giaour: A fragment of a Turkish tale^[3]
- The Waltz: An Apostrophic Hymn,^[4] published under the pen name "Horace Hornem Esq."^[3]
Allan Cunningham, Songs^[3]
Thomas John Dibdin, A Metrical History of England^[3]
James Hogg, The Queen's Wake^[3]
Mary Russell Mitford, Narrative Poems on the Female Character^[3]
James Montgomery, The World Before the Flood^[3]
Thomas Moore, writing as "Thomas Brown, the younger", Intercepted Letters; or, The Twopenny Post-Bag, several editions this year^[3]
Sir Walter Scott:
- Rokeby, five editions this year; inspired Jokeby, an anonymous parody by John Roby, also published this year^[3]
- The Bridal of Triermain; or, The Vale of St. John^[3]
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab
Horatio Smith and James Smith, Horace in London, mostly by James Smith^[3]

Washington Allston, The Sylphs of the Seasons, with Other Poems, "First American from the London edition" Boston; Cambridge: Published by Cummings and Hilliard; Hilliard & Metcalf, American living in and published in the United Kingdom;^[5]^[6] sentimental and satirical poems; written while the author was a student at Harvard and published during his convalescence; the book was praised by William Wordsworth and Robert Southey^[7]
Edwin Clifford Holland, Odes, Naval Songs, and Other Occasional Poems^[7]
William Kilty, attributed, The Vision of Don Croker^[8]
James Kirke Paulding, The Lay of the Scottish Fiddle: A Tale of Havre de Grace, Supposed to Be Written by Walter Scott, Esq.,^[7] a long poem and verse parody of the romantic poetry of Sir Walter Scott,^[6] particularly Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel; Paulding's work condemns the British invasion of Chesapeake Bay in the War of 1812 and is strongly criticized in the London Quarterly^[7]
George Watterston, The Scenes of Youth^[8]

CristÃ³bal de BeÃ±a, Spanish poet published in the United Kingdom:
- FÃ¡bulas polÃticas ("Political Fables")^[9]
- La lira de la libertad ("Liberty's Lyre"), London: M'Dowall^[9]

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

January 23 â Charles Harpur (died 1868), Australian
February 26 â Adrien Rouquette (died 1887), American poet and missionary
March 8 â Christopher Pearse Cranch (died 1892), American writer and artist
March 18 â Christian Friedrich Hebbel (died 1863), German poet and dramatist
June 20 â Charles Timothy Brooks (died 1883), American translator, poet, Transcendentalist and Unitarian pastor
June 21 â William Edmondstoune Aytoun (died 1865), Scottish
August 28 â Jones Very (died 1880), American poet, essayist, Transcendentalist and clergyman
September 27 â Epes Sargent (died 1880), American editor, poet and playwright
October 17 â Georg BÃ¼chner (died 1837), German dramatist, poet and writer
November 13 (November 1 O.S.) â Petar II PetroviÄ-NjegoÅ¡ (died 1851), Serbian poet and Prince-Bishop of Montenegro

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

January 20 - Christoph Martin Wieland (born 1733), German poet, translator and editor
June 26 - Jean-FranÃ§ois Cailhava de L'Estandoux (born 1731), French dramatist, poet and critic
August 11 - Henry James Pye (born 1745), English Poet Laureate
Autumn - Henrietta Battier (born c. 1751), Irish poet, satirist and actress