North American Review as fragments that the editors combined under the title, the first American poem to gain attention and respect from British critics; a reflection on death; influenced by reading Thomas Gray, Henry Kirke White and Robert Southey; the author was not yet 20, and many were skeptical that a young man could write the sophisticated and powerful piece John Neal, poetry published in The Portico volumes 3 and 4 Robert Charles Sands, The bridal of Vaumond; A Metrical Romance, New York: James Eastburn and Co. The Village Songster: Containing a Selection of the Most Approved Patriotic and Comic Songs, including "He's Not Worth the Trouble" by Susanna Haswell Rowson, Haverhill, Massachusetts: "Printed by Burrill and Tileston, and sold at their bookstore", anthology Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 4 – John McPherson (died 1845), Canadian poet February 21 – José Zorrilla (died 1893), Spanish Romantic poet and dramatist July 4 – Elizabeth Ayton Godwin (died 1889), British Victorian era hymnwriter and religious poet July 12 – Henry David Thoreau (died 1862), American Transcendentalist philosopher and writer September 14 – Theodor Storm (died 1888, German literary realist writer October 28 – Cornelius Mathews (died 1889), American writer in the Young America movement December 15 – Raffaello Carboni (died 1875), Italian revolutionary and writer, working for a time in Australia Also: Venmani Acchen Nambudiri (died 1891), Indian, Malayalam-language poet associated with the Venmani School of poetry Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: May 24 – Juan Meléndez Valdés (born 1754), Spanish October 26 – Moritz August von Thümmel (born 1738), German Tarikonda Venkamamba (born 1730), Telugu (a woman) 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