Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 17 – Rose Terry Cooke (died 1892), American April 16 – Octave Crémazie (died 1879), Canadian, "the father of French Canadian poetry" June 9 – Francis Miles Finch (died 1907), American June 18 – Helen Hinsdale Rich (died 1915), American poet September 18 – John Townsend Trowbridge (died 1916), American November 8 – José Bonifácio the Younger (died 1886), French-born Brazilian politician and poet November 26 – Emily Jane Pfeiffer (died 1890), Welsh poet and philanthropist Henry Alfred Krishnapillai (died 1900), Indian Tamil language poet John Hollin Ridge (died 1867), American Fazal Shah Sayyad (died 1890), Indian Punjabi language poet Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 6 – Charlotte von Stein (born 1742), German member of the court at Weimar, poet and close friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (on whom she was a strong influence) and of Friedrich Schiller May 12 – David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) (born 1751), Welsh May 29 – Carlos Wilcox (born 1794), American July 3 – David Davis (Castellhywel) (born 1745), Welsh minister and poet August 8 – George Canning (born 1770), English statesman and occasional poet August 12 – William Blake (born 1757), English poet, artist and visionary September 10 – Ugo Foscolo (born 1778), Italian writer, revolutionary and poet September 15 – Robert Pollok (born c. 1798), Scottish November 10 – St. George Tucker (born 1752), American poet, lawyer and professor of law at the College of William and Mary November 18 – Wilhelm Hauff (born 1802, German poet and novelist 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