poet and Buddhist priest known for his haiku poems and journals; widely regarded as one of the four haiku masters in Japan, along with Bashō, Buson and Shiki January 26 – Lady Caroline Lamb (born 1785), English aristocrat, novelist and poet April 11 – Edward Coote Pinkney (born 1802), English-born American poet, lawyer, sailor, professor and editor June 21 – Leandro Fernández de Moratín (born 1760), Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet September 26 – John Gardiner Calkins Brainard (born 1795), American lawyer, editor and poet date not known – Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins (born 1763), English novelist and occasional poet 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