Overview of the events of 1798 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1798 in poetry
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Births
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- January 5 – David Macbeth Moir (died 1851), Scottish
- March 30 – Luise Hensel (died 1876), German
- April 8 – Dionysios Solomos Διονύσιος Σολωμός (died 1857), Greek poet best known for the Hymn to Liberty, the first two stanzas of which become the Greek national anthem
- April 19 – Andrea Maffei (died 1885), Italian poet, translator and librettist
- June 18 – McDonald Clarke (died 1842), American
- June 29 – Count Giacomo Leopardi (died 1837), Italian
- September 20 – Samuel Henry Dickson (died 1872), American poet, physician, writer and educator
- December 24 – Adam Mickiewicz (died 1855), Polish Romantic poet
- c. 1798–1800 – Charles Jeremiah Wells (died 1879), English
Deaths
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