page_title: 1808 in poetry
section_title: United Kingdom
hierarchical_section_title: 1808 in poetry / Works published in English / United Kingdom
caption_attribution_description: English: page of book
context_page_description: Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
context_section_description: Christopher Anstey, The Poetical Works of the Late Christopher Anstey
  Mary Matilda Betham, Poems
  William Blake, Milton, including the poem "And did those feet in ancient time", illuminated book probably published about this year, although the book states "1804 on the title page, likely when the plates were begun
  Felicia Dorothea Browne (later "Felicia Hemans"):
  Poems
  England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism
  Robert Burns, Reliques of Robert Burnes (posthumous)
  Lord Byron, Poems Original and Translated, the second edition of Hours of Idleness, 1807
  William Cowper:
  Translator, Latin and Italian Poems of Milton Translated ito English Verse
  Translator, Poems Translated from the French of Mme de la Mothe Guion
  James Grahame, The Siege of Copenhagen
  Charles Lamb, Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare, anthology
  Mary Leadbeater, Poems
  Thomas Moore, A Selection of Irish Melodies, parts 1 and 2; songs, published in 10 parts 1808–1834
  Amelia Opie, The Warrior's Return, and Other Poems
  Walter Scott, Marmion, 10 editions by 1821
  Mary Shelley, see John Taylor
  John Taylor, possibly, or Mary Shelley (uncertain attribution), Mounseer Nongtongpaw, a poem for children
caption: The preface to Milton, as it appeared in author and artist William Blake's own illuminated version
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