Scottish Dialect, poems and a biographical essay on the author's life, posthumously published Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 16 – Frances Browne (died 1879), Irish poet February 18 – Ferdinand Dugué (died 1913), French poet and playwright April 21 – Charlotte Brontë (died 1855), English novelist and poet April 22 – Philip James Bailey (died 1902), English Spasmodic poet April 23 – Douglas Smith Huyghue (died 1891), Canadian and Australian poet, fiction writer, essayist and artist April 29 – (Charles William) Shirley Brooks (died 1874), English journalist and poet May 2 – Charles Heavysege (died 1876), English-born Canadian poet and dramatist August 31 – Josiah D. Canning, born Josiah Dean Cannon (died 1892), American poet October 26 – Philip Pendleton Cooke (died 1850), American lawyer and poet Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: June 16 – Hugh Henry Brackenridge (born 1748), American writer, poet, lawyer, judge and Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice July 7 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan (born 1751), Irish playwright, Whig statesman, writer and poet October 27 – Santō Kyōden 山東京伝, pen name of Samuru Iwase 岩瀬醒, also known popularly as "Kyōya Denzō" 京屋伝蔵 (born 1761), Japanese Edo period poet, writer and artist; brother of Santō Kyōzan See also Poetry 19th century in literature 19th century in poetry List of years in poetry List of years in literature List of poets Golden Age of Russian Poetry (1800–1850) Romantic poetry 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 Notes Poetry 19th-century poetry