1803 in poetry

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Events

  • October – First appearance of the Literary Magazine and American Register, a United States monthly published in Philadelphia and edited by Charles Brockden Brown until 1807, when it becomes a semiannual almanac, American Register, which ceases publication in 1810.{{cite book|last=Burt|first=Daniel S.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VQ0fgo5v6e0C|title=The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|year=2004|isbn=978-0-618-16821-7|via=Google Books}}
  • December 31 – "Sitting on the very sheepfold, dear William (Wordsworth) read to me (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) his divine poem, 'Michael'".{{cite book|title=William Wordsworth: A Biography. The Later Years, 1803-1850|location=Oxford|publisher=The Clarendon Press|year=1965}}

Works published

=United Kingdom=

  • Peter Bayley, Poems, includes parodies of works by William Wordsworth, including "The Fisherman's Wife," a parody of "The Idiot Boy"; "The Ivy Seat" parodying the Lucy poems; "Evining in the Vale of Festinog", parodying "Tintern Abbey"; "The Forest Fay" parodies Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"; London: printed for William Miller by W. Bulmer and Co.search results page at [http://www.abaa.org/books/abaa/index.html American Antiquarian Booksellers' Association] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090303145852/http://www.abaa.org/books/abaa/index.html |date=2009-03-03 }} website, retrieved March 4, 2009
  • Sir Alexander Boswell, The Spirit of Tintoc; or, Johnny Bell and the Kelpie, published anonymously{{cite book|editor=Cox, Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}
  • William Lisle Bowles, The Picture
  • Thomas Campbell, Poems, includes the 7th edition of The Pleasures of Hope (1799) and new works, including "Lochiel's Warning", "Hohenlinden" and "The Soldier's Dream"
  • Thomas Chatterton, The Works of Thomas Chatterton, Containing His Life, by G. Gregory, D.D., and Miscellaneous Poems, three volumes, London: printed by Briggs and Cottle, for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, posthumous
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poems: Third Edition, a reprint of Poems ... Second Edition (1797) omitting poems by Charles Lamb and Lloyd London: printed by N. Biggs for T. N. Longman and O. Rees
  • Erasmus Darwin, The Temple of Nature; or, The Origin of Society
  • Charles Dibdin, The Professional Life of Mr. Dibdin
  • Henry Kirke White, Clifton Grove

=United States=

  • J. Warren Brackett, The Ghost of Law, or Anarchy and Despotism, A Poem, Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa, Dartmouth College, at Their Anniversary, August 23, 1803, Hanover, New Hampshire: printed by Moses Davis (24 pages)
  • Thomas Fessenden, A Terrible Tractoration, a satire on medical quackery, vivisection, animal crossbreeding and scientific theories of some French and English naturalists, including Comte Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon and Erasmus DarwinCarruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993

=Other=

  • C. Stanislaus Bouflers, Oeuvres ("Works"), Paris: L. Pelletier, France
  • Adam Oehlenschlager, Digte ("Poems"), Denmark{{cite book|author1=Preminger, Alex |author2=Brogan, T. V. F. |title=The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics|year=1993|location=New York|publisher=MJF Books/Fine Communications|display-authors=etal}}

Births

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Deaths

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See also

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Notes

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  • {{cite web|url=http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/|title=A Timeline of English Poetry|work=Representative Poetry Online|publisher=University of Toronto}}

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