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1818 in poetry

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John Keats

  • June–August – Keats with his friend Charles Armitage Brown makes a walking tour of Scotland, Ireland, and the Lake District. While in Scotland he visits Burns Cottage, the home of Robert Burns (1759–96). Before Keats arrives, he writes to a friend that "one of the pleasantest means of annulling self is approaching such a shrine as the cottage of Burns — we need not think of his misery — that is all gone — bad luck to it — I shall look upon it all with unmixed pleasure."
  • September–November – Keats meets and falls in love with Fanny Brawne (1800–65)
  • December – Keats is invited to move into Brown's home at Wentworth Place, in Hampstead, at this time a pastoral suburb north of London. In the next 17 months as Brown’s housemate, Keats writes "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "The Eve of St. Agnes" and "Ode to a Nightingale", among other works.

    • Other events

  • January 11 – Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" is published in Leigh Hunt's weekly The Examiner (London; p. 24) under the pen name 'Glirastes'; Horace Smith's contribution to the same informal sonnet-writing competition, "On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below" is published on February 1 under his initials.
  • February 4 – While John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley are at Leigh Hunt's home for the evening, all three compete in composing sonnets about the Nile. Hunt is judged the winner, with:
  • March 12 – Percy Bysshe Shelley and family, along with his sister-in-law Claire Clairmont, mother of Lord Byron's child, leaves England for the Continent, reaching Milan April 4 and visiting the Italian lakes. In June they move to the Bagni di Lucca, where Shelley translates Plato's Symposium, writes "On Love," and completes Rosalind and Helen. In August, they move to Este, near Venice to be closer to Lord Byron; there Shelley begins Prometheus Unbound. Their daughter Clara dies September 24 and the Shelleys visit Venice October 12–31, then travel to Rome and Naples, where they remain until February 28, 1819.

    • United Kingdom

  • Bernard Barton:
  • The Convict's Appeal
  • Poems, anonymously published as "by an amateur"
  • Thomas Haynes Bayly, published under the pen name "Q. in the Corner", Parliamentary Letters, and Other Poems
  • Mary Matilda Betham, Vignettes
  • William Blake, Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion, illuminated book of 100 plates, estimated to have been published this date, although "1804" is printed on the title plate, but "this probably indicates the date when Blake began the work"
  • Sir Thomas Burges, The Dragon Knight
  • Lord Byron:
  • Beppo: A Venetian story, published anonymously
  • Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Fourth (see also Child Harold, 1812, 1816)
  • William Hazlitt, Lectures on the English Poets (criticism)
  • Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Translations from Camoens and Other Poets, with Original Poetry
  • Leigh Hunt:
  • Foliage; or, Poems Original and Translated
  • Literary Pocket-Book (miscellaneous poetry and prose)
  • John Keats:
  • Endymion
  • "When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be"
  • Thomas Moore, publishing as "Thomas Brown the Younger", The Fudge Family in Paris, at least nine editions published this year
  • Hannah More, Tragedies
  • Thomas Love Peacock, Rhododaphne; or, The Thessalian Spell
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley:
  • Julian and Maddalo
  • Ozymandias
  • William Sotheby, Farewell to Italy, and Occasional Poems

    • United States

  • William Cullen Bryant, To a Waterfowl
  • Thomas Green Fessenden, The ladies monitor, a poem (Bellows Falls: Printed by Bill Blake & Co.)
  • John Neal:
  • The Portico Volume 3 (Baltimore: Neale Wills & Cole)
  • Battle of Niagara
  • Goldau, or, the Maniac Harper
  • James Kirke Paulding, The Backwoodsman (Philadelphia: M. Thomas), a long poem in heroic couplets about a New York pioneer on the frontier in Kentucky
  • Samuel Woodworth, The Poems, Odes, Songs, and Other Metrical Effusions, of Samuel Woodworth (New York: Abraham Asten and Matthias Lopez)
  • Richard Henry Wilde, "My Life is Like the Summer Rose", John Greenleaf Whittier called it "a perfect poem"

    • Works misdated as this year

  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, originally Laon and Cythna (actually printed in December 1817 although the book states the year of publication as this year)

    • Works published in other languages

  • Kristijonas Donelaitis, The Seasons ("Metai" in Lithuanian), written about 1765-1775, is published in Königsberg
  • Adam Mickiewicz, City Winter ("Zima miejska" in Polish), his first poem, is published in Vilnius

    • Births

    Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

  • January 24 - John Mason Neale
  • April - Cecil Frances Alexander, née Humphreys
  • July 30 - Emily Brontë (died 1848)
  • October 16 – William Forster (died 1882) Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales and poet
  • December 24 - Eliza Cook
  • Date unknown:
  • Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle
  • Alexander McLachlan, Canadian
  • Charlotta Öberg, Swedish poet, (died 1856)

    • Deaths

    Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

  • May 14 - Matthew Gregory Lewis

    • Date unknown:

  • John Williams

    • References

    1818 in poetry Wikipedia
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