Overview of the events of 1808 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1808 in poetry
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Births
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- February 5 – Carl Spitzweg (died 1885), German romanticist painter and poet
- March 22 – Caroline Norton (died 1877), English society beauty, novelist, poet, pamphleteer and playwright
- March 25 – José de Espronceda (died 1842), Spanish
- May 22 – Gérard de Nerval, pen name of Gérard Labrunie (died 1855), French essayist, translator and Romantic poet
- May 31 – Horatius Bonar (died 1889), Scottish Free Church cleric and poet
- June 11 – James Ballantine (died 1877), Scottish painter, author and poet
- June 17 – Henrik Wergeland (died 1845), Norwegian poet, playwright, polemicist, historian and linguist
- c. September 7 or 8 – William Livingston (Uilleam Macdhunleibhe) (died 1870), Scottish Gaelic poet[6]
- September 21 – Evan MacColl (died 1898), Scottish-born Canadian poet writing in Scottish Gaelic and English
Deaths
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