1791 in poetry

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William Bartram's Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws contains enthusiastic descriptions of scenery that influenced writers including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who called the book one of "high merit", and William Wordsworth^[1]

John Aikin, Poems^[2]
William Blake, published anonymously, "The French Revolution"^[2]
Robert Burns, "Tam O'Shanter", published in the Edinburgh Herald March 18; also published in F. Grose, The Antiquities of Scotland, volume 2, this year
William Cowper, The Iliad and the Odyssey^[2]
Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden
William Gifford, published anonymously, The Baviad^[2]
Francis Grose, The Antiquities of Scotland, Volume 2 (Volume 1 published in 1789), including "Tam O'Shanter" by Robert Burns^[2]
George Huddesford, editor and author, published anonymously, Salmagundi: A miscellaneous combination of original poetry, largely written by Huddesford
Richard Polwhele, Poems^[2]
Christopher Smart, The Poems of the late Christopher Smart, edited by Francis Newbey, assisted by Smart's nephew, Christopher Hunter

Richard Alsop, Theodore Dwight, Elihu Hubbard Smith, Lemuel Hopkins and Mason Cogswell, The Echo, Federalist verse satire ridiculing Thomas Jefferson and other anti-Federalists; published first in the American Mercury^[3]
Benjamin Youngs Prime, Columbia's Glory, depicting the Revolutionary War, the only work by the author to be published under his own name^[3]
Jenny Fenno, Occasional Compositions in Prose and Verse, United States^[4]
Thomas Morris, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse^[5]
Benjamin Youngs Prime, Columbia's Glory, or British Pride Humbled^[5]

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

January 15 – Franz Grillparzer (died 1872), Austrian dramatic poet
June 9 – John Howard Payne, (died 1852), American actor, playwright, author and American consul in Tunis (1842–1852); most remembered as creator of "Home! Sweet Home!"^[6]
September 1 – Lydia Sigourney died 1865), American^[6]
September 7 – Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (died 1863), Italian poet famous for his sonnets in Romanesco, the dialect of Rome
December 14:
- Johan Ludvig Heiberg (died 1860), Danish^[7]
- Charles Wolfe (died 1823), Irish poet and Anglican clergyman
date not known – Paramananda (Kashmiri poet) (died 1864), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
date not known – Ōtagaki Rengetsu (died 1875), Japanese Buddhist nun, poet, potter, painter, and calligrapher

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

January 11 – William Williams Pantycelyn (born 1717), Wales poet, prose and hymn writer
June 27 – Johann Heinrich Merck (born 1741), German critic, essayist, editor, writer and poet; from suicide
October 10 – Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (born 1739), German poet, organist, composer and journalist
John Frederick Bryant
John Ellis (poet)
Francis Grose (born 1731), Swiss antiquary, draughtsman, and lexicographer
John Wesley (born 1703), cleric and Christian theologian who was the founder of Methodism, psalmist and hymnist
William Woty
Elias Caspar Reichard (born 1714), German

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^ Carruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ ^a ^b Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 9780618168217, retrieved via Google Books
^ Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West, Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History, Oxford University Press US, 1996 ISBN 9780195090536, retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009
^ ^a ^b Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
^ ^a ^b Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications

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