1803 in Poetry - Births

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• January 1 – Richard Henry Horne (died 1884), English poet and critic
• January 19 – Sarah Helen Whitman (died 1878), American poet, essayist, transcendentalist, spiritualist and a romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe
• May 1 – James Clarence Mangan (died 1849), Irish
• May 25 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, (died 1882) American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement
• June 25 – Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, (died 1844), American poet and teacher
• June 30 – Thomas Lovell Beddoes (died 1849) English poet and playwright
• December 3 – Robert Stephen Hawker, also known as Stephen Hawker (died 1875), English Anglican clergyman, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall, and reputed eccentric
• December 6 – Susanna Moodie (died 1855), British born Canadian author and poet