1805 in poetry

Events

• January–September – Samuel Taylor Coleridge serves as Acting Public Secretary in Malta.
• William Wordsworth begins his first revision of The Prelude: or, Growth of a Poet's Mind in 13 Books, a version completed in 1806 and further revised later in his life. His work this year and next revises the original 1798-1799 version. The book is not published in any form until shortly after his death in 1850.

Works published

[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]

• Robert Anderson, Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect
• Henry Cary, translator, The Inferno of Dante Alighieri, parallel text
• Charlotte Dacre, Hours of Solitude
• George Ellis, editor, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances (anthology)
• William Hayley, Ballads
• Charles Lamb, The King and Queen of Hearts, published anonymously; for children
• Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel
• Robert Southey, Madoc
• William Taylor, translation from the original German by G. E. Lessing, Nathan the Wise, first privately printed in 1791
• John Thelwall, The Trident of Albion, on the Battle of Trafalgar
• Mary Tighe, Psyche, or the Legend of Love
• William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems, the last separate edition, with some variants in the poems; previous editions in 1798, 1801, 1802
• The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog

[[American poetry|United States]]

• Thomas Green Fessenden, Democracy Unveiled
• John Blair Linn, Valerian, A Narrative Poem: Intended, in Part, to Describe the Early Persecutions of Christians, and Rapidly to Illustrate the Influence of Christianity on the Manners of Nations, By John Blair Linn ... With a Sketch of the Life and Character of the Author, Philadelphia: Thomas and George Palmer
• Alexander Wilson, The Foresters

Other

• Adam Oehlenschlager, Poetiske Skrifter ("Poetic Writings"), prose and poetry, narrative cycles, drama, lyrics, ballads and romances, including "Aladdin", a philosophical fairy-tale drama in blank verse; Denmark
• Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano, edited and composed, Des Knaben Wunderhorn, vol. 1; Germany

Births

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

• February 22 – Sarah Fuller Adams (died 1848), English
• March 20 – Thomas Cooper (died 1892), English Chartist, poet and religious lecturer
• May 26 – Joseph Grant (died 1835), Scottish

Deaths

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

• January 5 – Gottlob Burmann (born 1737), German poet and lipogrammatist
• May 9 – Friedrich Schiller (born 1759), German poet and dramatist
• August 3 – Christopher Anstey (born 1724) English writer and poet

Notes

• http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/ "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto

References

1. Web page titled [http://www.wordsworthcentre.co.uk/Cornell/pages/Prel-13.html "The Thirteen Book / Prelude / by William Wordsworth / Edited by Mark L. Reed"], at The Wordsworth Centre website, retrieved April 17, 2010
2. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
3. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
4. Web page titled [https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/AmPo1/AmPo.bib.html "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography"] at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
5. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications