— words chiselled onto the tombstone of John Keats, at his request
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
The Saturday Evening Post founded in Philadelphia
Lord Byron writes Sardanapalus, The Two Foscari and Cain
Percy Bysshe Shelley's Queen Mab: a philosophical poem (1813) is distributed by an unauthorized publisher in London leading to prosecution by the Society for the Prevention of Vice.
At about this date Sunthorn Phu is imprisoned and begins his epic poem Phra Aphai Mani.
Edwin Atherstone, The Last Days of Herculaneum
Joanna Baillie, Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters
John Banim, The Celt's Paradise
Thomas Lovell Beddoes, The Improvisatore, in Three Fyttes, with Other Poems
Lord Byron:
Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice; The Prophecy of Dante, Marino Faliero performed April 25
Don Juan, cantos 3–5, published anonymously, see also Don Juan 1819, 1823, 1824
Sardanapalus; The Two Foscari; Cain, verse drama
The Vision of Judgment (spelling is correct)
Heaven and Earth
The Prophecy of Dante
John Clare, The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems
William Gifford, The Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus, in Latin and English
Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Dartmoor
William Hone, The Political Showman — At Home!, illustrated by George Cruikshank; those lampooned include Wellington, Lord Liverpool, George IV, Lord Castlereagh and John Stoddart, editor of The Times
Leigh Hunt, The Months
Letitia Elizabeth Landon ("L.E.L."), The Fate of Adelaide, and Other Poems
Robert Millhouse, Vicissitude, a poem in four books and other pieces
Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies, the first authorized edition of the author's lyrics; 10 editions by 1832
Hannah More, Bible Rhymes
John Henry Newman and John William Bowden, St. Bartholomew's Eve, published anonymously
Bryan Waller Procter, writing under the pen name "Barry Cornwall", Mirandola: A tragedy, verse drama
J. H. Reynolds, The Garden of Florence
Percy Bysshe Shelley:
Epipsychidion, published anonymously
Adonais: An elegy on the death of John Keats
A Defence of Poetry
Horatio Smith, Amarynthus, the Nympholept, published anonymously
Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgement, in which Southey criticizes Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, labeling them members of what Southey calls the "Satanic School" of poetry; Byron later decides he likes the name, and responds with his own work, A Vision of Judgment (with slightly different spelling in the title)
Paul Allen, Noah, about the Bible story, but also discusses slavery and America's place in God's providence; revised by John Neal
William Cullen Bryant, Poems, eight poems, including "The Ages", a poem in Spenserian stanzas on the history of mankind and expressing a positive outlook on the future, delivered at the Harvard commencement; also the last significant revision of "Thanatopsis"; the book, issued by Richard Henry Dana, Edward Channing and Willard Phillips, is a critical success which promotes Bryant's reputation, but it does not sell well
James Gates Percival, Poems, including the first part of "Prometheus"
Alexander Pushkin denies it but is widely thought to be the author this April of The Gabrieliad (Гавриилиада, Gavriiliada), Russian, a sexually explicit, blasphemous work
Heinrich Heine, Gedichte, German, his first published collection
Wilhelm Müller, German
Gedichte aus den hinterlassenen Papieren eines reisenden Waldhornisten ("Poems from the posthumous papers of a travelling horn-player"), begins publication
Lieder der Griechen ("Songs of the Greeks"), begins publication
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 4 - Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (died 1873), American sonneteer
March 19 - Richard Francis Burton (died 1890), English geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, Egyptologist and diplomat
March 25 - Isabella Banks, née Varley (died 1897), English
April 9 - Charles Baudelaire (died 1867), French
May 29 - Frederick Locker-Lampson (died 1895), English
July 8 - Maria White Lowell (died 1853), American poet and abolitionist
November 28 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (died 1877), Russian
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 14 – Jens Zetlitz, Norwegian
February 23 – John Keats, English, in Rome from tuberculosis. He was buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome. His last request was followed, and so he was buried under a tomb stone without his name appearing on it but instead the words "Here lies one whose name was writ in water."
March 17 – Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes, French
April 15 – Johann Christoph Schwab (born 1743), German
May 11 – George Howe (born 1769), the first Australian editor, poet and early printer
Also:
Anne Hunter (born 1742), Scots poet and songwriter who wrote the lyrics to many of Haydn’s songs
Lucy Terry (born circa 1730 in Africa) first known African American poet, author of "Bars Fight, August 28, 1746", a ballad first printed in 1855
Sukey Vickery (born 1799), American novelist and poet (a woman)
