Overview of the events of 1819 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1819 in poetry
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Births
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- January 1 - Arthur Hugh Clough (died 1861), English poet and brother of suffragist Anne Jemima Clough
- January 21 - Edward Capern (died 1894), English postman poet
- February 3 - Amelia B. Coppuck Welby (died 1852), American fugitive poet[11]
- February 12 - William Wetmore Story (died 1895, American sculptor, art critic, poet and editor
- February 22 - James Russell Lowell (died 1891), American
- May 27 - Julia Ward Howe (died 1910), American poet and abolitionist
- May 31 - Walt Whitman (died 1892), American
- June 12 - Charles Kingsley (died 1875), English writer and cleric
- June 29 - Thomas Dunn English (died 1902), American politician and poet
- July 24 - Josiah Gilbert Holland (died 1881), American novelist and poet
- August 1 - Herman Melville (died 1891), American novelist and poet
- August 30 - Carlo Favetti (died 1892), Friulian politician and poet
- November 22 - George Eliot, born Mary Ann Evans (died 1880), English novelist and writer
- December 30 - Theodor Fontane (died 1898), German novelist and poet
Deaths
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