Overview of the events of 1809 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1809 in poetry
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Events
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Births
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- January 19 – Edgar Allan Poe (died 1849), American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic, American
- February 7 – Frederik Paludan-Muller (died 1876), Danish[5]
- March 6 – David Bates (died 1870), American
- March 31 – Edward Fitzgerald (died 1883), English writer and poet best known for his English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- April 10 – Henry Derozio (died 1831), one of the first Indian, English-language poets (Indian poetry in English)
- June 3 – Margaret Gatty (died 1873), English writer of children's literature, poet and editor
- June 19 – Monckton Milnes (died 1885), English poet and politician
- August 6 – Alfred Tennyson (died 1892), Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
- August 29 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (died 1894), American poet, essayist and physician
- October 18 – Thomas Holley Chivers (died 1858), American doctor-turned-poet best known for his friendship with Edgar Allan Poe and his controversial defense of the poet after his death
- October 24 – John Barr (died 1889), Scottish-New Zealander
- November 27 – Fanny Kemble (died 1893), American and English actress, author and poet
- Undated
Deaths
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- January 15 (or January 16) – Karl Friedrich Kretschmann (born 1738), German poet, playwright and storyteller
- March 11 – Hannah Cowley (born 1743), English playwright and poet
- March 23 – Thomas Holcroft (born 1745), English novelist, poet and playwright
- March 25 – Anna Seward, called "the Swan of Lichfield" (born 1747), English poet
- May 1 – Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel (born 1736), German writer, military scientist, educator and poet
- August 8 – Ueda Akinari, 上田 秋成, also known as "Ueda Shūsei" (born 1734), Japanese author, scholar and waka poet
- Undated – Jagannatha Dasa (born 1728), Indian devotional poet