Johann Georg Jacobi (born 1740), German October 4 – Samuel Jackson Pratt (born 1749), English poet and writer October 14 – Mercy Otis Warren (born 1727), American playwright, poet and historian November 22 – Edward Rushton (born 1756), English poet, bookseller and abolitionist See also Poetry 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 Notes Poetry 19th-century poetry