Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events [edit] Works published  Combat of the Giaour and the Pasha scene from Byron's The Giaour painted by Eugène Delacroix (1827) - William Lisle Bowles, The Missionary, published anonymously[1]
- Lord Byron:
- The Bride of Abydos: A Turkish tale published in early December and within the month sells 6,000 copies, making Byron sought-after in the London literary scene as he receives invitations daily
- The Giaour: A fragment of a Turkish tale[1]
- Waltz, published under the pen name "Horace Hornem Esq."[1]
- Allan Cunningham, Songs[1]
- Thomas John Dibdin, A Metrical History of England[1]
- James Hogg, The Queen's Wake[1]
- Mary Russell Mitford, Narrative Poems on the Female Character[1]
- James Montgomery, The World Before the Flood[1]
- Thomas Moore, writing as "Thomas Brown, the younger", Intercepted Letters; or, The Twopenny Post-Bag, several editions this year[1]
- Sir Walter Scott:
- Rokeby, five editions this year; inspired Jokeby, an anonymous parody by John Roby, also published this year[1]
- The Bridal of Triermain; or, The Vale of St. John[1]
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab
- Horatio Smith and James Smith, Horace in London, mostly by James Smith[1]
- Washington Allston, The Sylphs of the Seasons, with Other Poems, "First American from the London edition" Boston; Cambridge: Published by Cummings and Hilliard; Hilliard & Metcalf, American living in and published in the United Kingdom;[2][3] sentimental and satirical poems; written while the author was a student at Harvard and published during his convalescence; the book was praised by William Wordsworth and Robert Southey[4]
- Edwin Clifford Holland, Odes, Naval Songs, and Other Occasional Poems[4]
- William Kilty, attributed, The Vision of Don Croker[5]
- James Kirke Paulding, The Lay of the Scottish Fiddle: A Tale of Havre de Grace, Supposed to Be Written by Walter Scott, Esq.,[4] a long poem and verse parody of the romantic poetry of Sir Walter Scott,[3] particularly Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel; Paulding's work condemns the British invasion of Chesapeake Bay in the War of 1812 and is strongly criticized in the London Quarterly[4]
- George Watterston, The Scenes of Youth[5]
[edit] Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: [edit] Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: [edit] See also - ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
- ^ a b Carruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
- ^ a b c d Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 9780618168217, retrieved via Google Books
- ^ a b Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
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