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| 1796 |
| | | US author Joel Barlow publishes his mock-heroic poem The Hasty Pudding, inspired by a dish eaten in 1793 in France | |
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| 1797 |
| | | Samuel Taylor Coleridge says that while writing Kubla Khan he is interrupted by 'a person on business from Porlock' | |
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| 1798 |
| | | English poets Wordsworth and Coleridge jointly publish Lyrical Ballads, a milestone in the Romantic movement | |
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| 1798 |
| | | Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is published in Lyrical Ballads | |
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| 1804 |
| | | William Blake includes his poem 'Jerusalem' in the Preface to his book Milton | |
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| 1805 |
| | | Walter Scott publishes The Lay of the Last Minstrel, the long romantic poem that first brings him fame | |
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| 1810 |
| | | Walter Scott's poem Lady of the Lake brings tourists in unprecedented numbers to Scotland's Loch Katrine | |
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| 1812 |
| | | The first two cantos are published of Byron's largely autobiographical poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bringing him immediate fame | |
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| 1814 |
| | | US lawyer Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner after seeing the British bombard Fort McHenry | |
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| 1817 |
| | | US poet William Cullen Bryant publishes Thanatopsis, written seven years previously at the age of 16 | |
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