Overview of the events of 1811 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1811 in poetry
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Births
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Deaths
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- January 8 – Christoph Friedrich Nicolai (born 1733), German writer, publisher, critic, author of satirical novels, regional historian, and a key figure of the Enlightenment in Berlin
- March 12 – Judah Leib Ben-Ze'ev (born 1764), Galician Hebrew philologist, lexicographer, Biblical scholar and poet
- April 7 – Dositej Obradović (born 1742), Serbian author, philosopher, linguist, polyglot and the first minister of education of Serbia
- August 28 – John Leyden (born 1775), Scottish indologist and poet
- September 14 – James Grahame (born 1765), Scottish poet, lawyer and clergyman
- September 30 – Thomas Percy (born 1729), English bishop of Dromore, ballad collector and poet
- November 13 – Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (born 1773), American poet and editor; son of Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independence[4]