Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 10 – Annette von Droste-Hulshoff (died 1848), German
- March 27 – Alfred de Vigny (died 1863), French poet, playwright, and novelist
- August 30 – Mary Shelley (died 1851), British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, and poet
- October 13 – William Motherwell (died 1835), Scottish
- December 13 – Heinrich Heine (died 1856), German
- December 27 – Mirza Ghalib (died 1869), classical Urdu and Persian poet from India
- Also:
- James Wallis Eastburn, (died 1819), American
- George Moses Horton (died 1883), American
Read more about this topic: 1797 In Poetry
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)