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Poetry published

Births

Deaths

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Events

★ April 15 — William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy came across a "long belt" of daffodils, a circumstance which inspires "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", written in 1804, first published in 1807 and published in revised form in 1815. It is titled "The Daffodils" in some anthologies.

Poetry published

★ Joseph Ritson, ''Ancient English Metrical Romances''

★ S.T. Coleridge, "Dejection: An Ode"

★ Walter Savage Landor, ''Poetry by the Author of Gebir''

★ Amelia Opie, ''Poems''

★ Sir Walter Scott, ''Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border'' (1802-03), an anthology of ballads

Births

★ February 26 — Victor Hugo, French

★ Lydia Maria Child (US)

★ Sara Coleridge (daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

★ Letitia Elizabeth Landon ("L.E.L.")

★ George Pope Morris (US)

★ Edward Coote Pinkney (US)

★ Winthrop Mackworth Praed

★ Isaac Williams

Deaths

★ Erasmus Darwin

See also

★ Poetry

★ List of years in poetry

★ List of poets