Events
- June 5 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, living at Nether Stowey in the Quantock Hills, meets William Wordsworth and Wordsworth's sister, Dorothy, who take a house nearby.
- August – The British Home Office sends an agent to Nether Stowey to investigate Coleridge and Wordsworth who are suspected of being French spies.
- October – Coleridge composes Kubla Khan in an opium-induced dream and writes down only a fragment of it on waking.
- William Blake illustrates Edward Young's Night-Thoughts.
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