and journalist September 4 – Charles Whitehead (died 1862), English poet, novelist and dramatist December 31 – Francis Sylvester Mahony, also known as "Father Prout" (died 1866), Irish humorist and poet Chō Kōran (died 1879), Japanese poet and nanga artist Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 4 – Charlotte Lennox (born c. 1730), British author, playwright and poet associated with Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds, and Samuel Richardson January 24 – Joseph Fawcett (born c. 1758), English Presbyterian minister and poet October 12 – Anna Louisa Karsch (born 1722), German November 23 – Richard Graves (born 1715) English poet and novelist December 16 – Christian Felix Weiße (born 1726), German Also: John Blair Linn (born 1777), American Johann Franz von Palthen (born 1724), German 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