Birds"), Faroese, completed Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 9 – Joseph-Isidore Bédard (died 1833), Canadian poet, lawyer and politician January 20 – Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. P. Willis, (died 1867) American author, poet and editor who worked with notable writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow March 6 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning (died 1861), English April 17 – William Gilmore Simms (died 1870), American poet, novelist and historian date not known – Charles Tompson (died 1883), Australian public servant and said to be the first published Australian-born poet Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 19 – Elizabeth Carter (born 1717), English poet, classicist, writer, translator and a prominent member of the Bluestocking circle March 3 – Heinrich Christian Boie (born 1744), German author and poet May 6 – Ann Yearsley (born c. 1753), English poet and writer July 16 – Caterino Mazzolà (born 1745), Italian poet and librettist October 19 – Henry Kirke White (born 1785), English October 28 – Charlotte Turner Smith (born 1749), English poet and novelist date not known – Jupiter Hammon (born 1711), English Colonial American 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 "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto 19th-century poetry Poetry