a Fragment" (first published separately 1823)), in the style of Lord Byron William Gilmore Simms, Monody on Gen. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charleston Other Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Elégies et Poésies nouvelles, France Adam Mickiewicz, Crimean Sonnets, Poland Kondraty Ryleyev, Rogneda, Russia, approximate date Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 11 – Bayard Taylor (died 1878), American poet and travel writer May 4 – Thomas Henry Huxley (died 1895), English evolutionist and occasional poet (Nettie, born Henrietta Heathorn (died 1914), his wife, is also born this year) June 6 – Peter John Allan (died 1848), Canadian poet July 20 or 25 – John Askham (died 1894), English shoemaker and poet September 24 – Frances Harper, born Frances Ellen Watkins (died 1911), black American poet and abolitionist October 30 – Adelaide Anne Procter (died 1864), English poet and philanthropist Dhiro (born 1753), Gujarati devotional poet Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: March 9 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld (born 1743), English poet May 6 – Lady Anne Barnard (born 1750), Scottish-born ballad and travel writer August 12 – Magdalene Sophie Buchholm (born 1758), Norwegian poet August 27 – Lucretia Maria Davidson (born 1808), American poet, of consumption November 12 – William Knox (born 1789), Scottish poet, of a stroke December 5 – Mary Whateley (born 1738), English poet and hymnodist 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