Parts, By John Blair Linn ... Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged, Philadelphia: John Conrad, & Co.; sold by M. and J. Conrad & Co., United States Charles Morris, Songs Political and Convivial, United States Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 11 – Lydia Maria Child (died 1880), American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Indian rights activist, novelist, journalist and poet; author of "Over the River and Through the Woods" February 26 – Victor Hugo (died 1885), French novelist, playwright and poet March 14 – Rangga Warsita (died 1873), Javanese July 28 – Winthrop Mackworth Praed (died 1839) English politician and poet August 14 – Letitia Elizabeth Landon, also known as "L.E.L." (died 1838), English poet and novelist August 28 – Thomas Aird (died 1876), Scottish October 1 – Edward Coote Pinkney (died 1828), American poet, lawyer, sailor, professor, and editor October 10 – George Pope Morris (died 1864), American editor, poet, and songwriter December 23 – Sara Coleridge (died 1852), English poet and translator; daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge December 31 – Richard Henry Horne (died 1884), English poet, critic and journalist, and public official in Australia date not known – Isaac Williams (died 1865) English poet and tractarian, a prominent member of the Oxford Movement Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: April 18 – Erasmus Darwin (born 1731), English physician, natural philosopher, physiologist, inventor and poet (grandfather of Charles Darwin) September 17 – Richard Owen Cambridge (born 1717), English Also: Sophia Burrell (born 1750), English poet and playwright Christoph Friedrich Sangerhausen (born 1740), German See also 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 Poetry Notes "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto 19th-century poetry Poetry