a native-born Australian Alfred de Vigny, Poèmes antiques et modernes (expanded edition, 1829), France Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 27 – Cynthia Roberts Gorton, American poet and author (died 1894) March 12 – Robert Lowry, American hymnodist (died 1899) April 20 – Dinah Craik (born "Dinah Maria Mulock", also often credited as "Miss Mulock"), English novelist and poet (died 1887) July 4 – Stephen Foster, American songwriter (died 1864) Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: April 3 – Reginald Heber (born 1783), Church of England bishop, remembered chiefly as a hymn-writer June 23 – John Taylor (born 1750), English businessman, poet and hymn-writer June 27 – Mary Leadbeater (born 1758), Irish poet and writer July 25 (July 13 O.S.) – Kondraty Ryleyev (born 1795), Russian poet and revolutionary, hanged October 3 – Jens Baggesen (born 1764), Danish December 26 – Schack von Staffeldt (born 1769), Danish poet and Amtmann December 31 – William Gifford (born 1756), English satiric poet and literary editor William Glen (born 1789), Scottish 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 19th-century poetry Poetry