1805 in poetry

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Events

 * January–September – Samuel Taylor Coleridge serves as Acting Public Secretary in Malta.
 * William Wordsworth begins his first revision of The Prelude: or, Growth of a Poet's Mind in 13 Books, a version completed in 1806 and further revised later in his life. His work this year and next revised the original 1798-1799 version. The book was not published in any form until shortly after his death in 1850.

United Kingdom

 * Robert Anderson, Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect
 * Henry Cary, translator, The Inferno of Dante Alighieri, parallel text
 * Charlotte Dacre, Hours of Solitude
 * George Ellis, editor, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances (anthology)
 * William Hayley, Ballads
 * Charles Lamb, The King and Queen of Hearts, published anonymously; for children
 * Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel
 * Robert Southey, Madoc
 * William Taylor, translation from the original German by G. E. Lessing, Nathan the Wise, first privately printed in 1791
 * John Thelwall, The Trident of Albion, on the Battle of Trafalgar
 * Mary Tighe, Psyche, or the Legend of Love
 * William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems, the last separate edition, with some variants in the poems; previous editions in 1798, 1801, 1802
 * The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog

United States

 * Thomas Green Fessenden, Democracy Unveiled
 * John Blair Linn, Valerian, A Narrative Poem: Intended, in Part, to Describe the Early Persecutions of Christians, and Rapidly to Illustrate the Influence of Christianity on the Manners of Nations, By John Blair Linn ... With a Sketch of the Life and Character of the Author, Philadelphia: Thomas and George Palmer
 * Alexander Wilson, The Foresters

Other

 * Adam Oehlenschlager, Poetiske Skrifter ("Poetic Writings"), prose and poetry, narrative cycles, drama, lyrics, ballads and romances, including "Aladdin", a philosophical fairy-tale drama in blank verse; Denmark
 * Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano, edited and composed, Des Knaben Wunderhorn, vol. 1; Germany

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February 22 – Sarah Fuller Adams (died 1848), English
 * March 20 – Thomas Cooper (died 1892), English Chartist, poet and religious lecturer
 * May 26 – Joseph Grant (died 1835), Scottish

Deaths
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 * January 5 – Gottlob Burmann (born 1737), German poet and lipogrammatist
 * May 9 – Friedrich Schiller (born 1759), German poet and dramatist
 * August 3 – Christopher Anstey (born 1724) English writer and poet