essayist, philosopher, poet and leader of the Transcendentalist movement June 25 – Sumner Lincoln Fairfield (died 1844), American poet and teacher June 30 – Thomas Lovell Beddoes (died 1849) English poet and playwright December 3 – Robert Stephen Hawker, also known as Stephen Hawker (died 1875), English Anglican clergyman, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall and eccentric December 6 – Susanna Moodie (died 1855), English-born Canadian author and poet December 26 (December 14 O.S.) – Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (died 1882), Estonian author and poet Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 18 – Ippolit Bogdanovich (born 1743), Russian classicist author of light poetry, best known for his long poem Dushenka February 9 – Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (born 1716) February 18 – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim (born 1719), German poet March 14 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (born 1724), German poet May 14 – William Smith (born 1727), Scottish American Episcopalian priest, educator, theologian, poet and historian June 22 – Wilhelm Heinse (born 1746), German author and poet August 18 – James Beattie (born 1735), Scottish scholar, writer and poet August 25 – Johann Gottfried Herder (born 1744), German philosopher, poet and literary critic September 23 – Joseph Ritson (born 1752), English antiquary and anthologist Also – Erika Liebman (born 1738), Swedish poet and academic See also List of years in poetry List of years in literature 19th century in literature 19th century in poetry Romantic poetry Golden Age of Russian Poetry (1800–1850) Weimar Classicism period in Germany, commonly considered to have begun in 1788 and to have ended either in 1805, with the death of Friedrich Schiller, or 1832, with the death of Goethe List of poets Poetry Notes 19th-century poetry Poetry