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Events

• Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and Leigh Hunt found The Liberal, edited by John Hunt; it lasts four issues and ends with Shelley's death in August.

Works published

Shelley Memorial, Oxford

• William Barnes, Orra: A Lapland tale
• Bernard Barton:
  • Napoleon, and Other Poems
  • Verses on the Death of Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Thomas Haynes Bayly Erin, and Other Poems
• Thomas Lovell Beddoes, The Bride's Tragedy
• Robert Bloomfield, May Day with the Muses
• Caroline Bowles (later Caroline Southey), The Widow's Tale, and Other Poems
• Lord Byron:
  • Werner
  • review of Robert Southey's "The Vision of Judgement" in the first number of The Liberal on October 15; editor John Hunt omits Byron's preface justifying the attack on Southey, but leads Byron to believe that the omission resulted from the publisher withholding the preface.
  • The Vision of Judgment, published anonymously as "Quevedo Redivivus", written in response to Southey's A Vision of Judgement 1821
  • Sardanapalus
  • The Two Foscari
  • Cain
• George Croly, Catiline: A tragedy, including poems
• Allan Cunningham, Sir Marmaduke Maxwell; The Mermaid of Galloway; The legend of Richard Faulder; and Twenty Scottish Songs
• George Darley, The Errors of Ecstasie: A dramatic poem
• Sir Aubrey de Vere, Julian the Apostate
• Caroline Fry, Serious Poetry
• James Hogg:
  • The Poetical Works of James Hogg
  • The Royal Jubilee: A Scottish mask, verse drama
• Charles Lloyd, The Duke d'Ormond; and Beritola
• Henry Hart Milman:
  • Balshazzar
  • The Martyr of Antioch
• Mary Roberts (poet), The Royal Exile
• Eleanor Anne Porden, Coeur de Lion
• Samuel Rogers, Italy: Part the first, published anonymously, Part the Second 1828
• Sir Walter Scott, Halidon Hill
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, Hellas
• William Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets

Births

The Funeral of Shelley by Louis Edouard Fournier (1889); pictured in the forefront are, from left, Edward Trelawny, Leigh Hunt and Lord Byron

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

• December 24 - Matthew Arnold, English
• Thomas Buchanan Read, American
• Charles Sangster, Canadian
• James Monroe Whitfield, American

Deaths

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

• John Aikin
• July 18 — discovery of the badly decomposed body of Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet, after it washes ashore near Via Reggio; the body is identified by the copy of Lamia and Isabella in the jacket pocket. Edward Trelawny, a friend, removes Shelley's heart before the body is burned and gives it to Mary Shelley, who keeps it for the rest of her life. Shelley's ashes are interred at the Protestant Cemetery, Rome, where John Keats was buried the year before.
• date unknown - Józef Wybicki, Polish

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• 19th century in literature
• 19th century in poetry
• Romantic poetry
• Golden Age of Russian Poetry (1800–1850)
• Weimar Classicism period in Germany, commonly considered to have begun in 1788 and to have ended either in 1805, with the death of Friedrich Schiller, or 1832, with the death of Goethe
• List of poets