1804 in poetry

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Events

 * William Wordsworth writes "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", inspired by an incident on April 15, 1802, in which Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, came across a "long belt" of daffodils. The poem will be first published in 1807 and published in revised form in 1815. It is titled "The Daffodils" in some anthologies.

United Kingdom

 * William Blake
 * Milton (including "And did those feet in ancient time") (see 1808 in poetry)
 * Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion (publication concluded 1820)
 * Robert Bloomfield, Good Tidings; or, News from the Farm
 * William Lisle Bowles, The Spirit of Discovery; or, The Conquest of the Ocean
 * Thomas Brown, Poems
 * John Galt, The Battle of Largs, published anonymously; the author's first published work
 * James Grahame, The Sabbath, published anonymously
 * Thomas Love Peacock, The Monks of St. Mark, published anonymously
 * Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor, Original Poems for Infant Minds

United States

 * Thomas Green Fessenden, Original Poems, collected from the author's submissions to newspapers, mostly literary and anti-Jacobin satires; the book is popular, especially one poem in it, "The Country Lovers"
 * David Humphreys, The Miscellaneous Works of David Humphreys, Late Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to the Court of Madrid, New York: T. and J. Swords
 * Susanna Haswell Rowson, Miscellaneous Poems; by Susanna Rowson, Preceptress of The Ladies' Academy, Newton, Mass., Boston: Gilbert and Dean; the author's second and final collection, including songs set to music and longer patriotic pieces; a popular volume which never received critical approval
 * year uncertain – John Williams, published under the pen name "Anthony Pasquin", The Hamiltoniad: or, An extinguisher for the royal faction of New-England. With copious notes, illustrative, biographical, philosophical, critical, admonitory, and political; being intended as a high-heeled shoe for all limping republicans, Boston, Massachusetts: "Sold for the Author at The Independent Chronicle Office" Irish-born poet at this time living in the United States; a harsh satire attacking Alexander Hamilton and the Federalistrs; divided into three cantos, with extensive footnotes, including French and Latin quotations and snippets of correspondence between Hamilton and Aaron Burr

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 21 – Eliza R. Snow (died 1887), American
 * February 1 – Handrij Zejler (died 1872), Sorbian
 * May 15 – Samuel Laman Blanchard (died 1845), English author, poet 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
 * 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