1818 IN POETRY

Contents

Events

Works published

Births

Deaths

See also

Events

★ John Keats falls in love with Fanny Brawne (1800-65) and writes some of his finest poetry — the period from September of this year to September 1819 is often referred to among Keats scholars as the Great Year, or the Living Year (''see 1819 in poetry'')

★ March 12 — Percy Bysshe Shelley and family, along with his sister-in-law Claire Clairmont, mother of Loyd 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&ndash31, then travel to Rome and Naples, where they remain until February 28, 1819.

Works published

★ Kristijonas Donelaitis, ''The Seasons'' ("Metai" in Lithuanian), written about 1765-1775, is published in Königsberg

★ John Keats:

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★ ''Endymion''

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★ "When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be"

★ Percy Bysshe Shelley:

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★ ''Ozymandias''

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★ ''The Revolt of Islam'', originally ''Laon and Cythna'' (actually printed in December 1817 although dated this year)

★ Lord Byron:

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★ ''Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Book IV''

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★ ''Beppo''

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★ "The Intellectual Eunuch Castlereagh", a poem attacking Lord Castlereagh

★ William Hazlitt, ''Lectures on the English Poets''

★ Leigh Hunt, ''Foliage''

★ Thomas Love Peacock, ''Rhododaphne''

Births

★ January 24 - John Mason Neale

★ April - Cecil Frances Alexander, née Humphreys

★ July 30 - Emily Brontë (+ 1848)

★ December 24 - Eliza Cook
Date unknown:

★ Alexander McLachlan (Canada)

Deaths

★ May 14 - Matthew Gregory Lewis
Date unknown:

★ John Williams

See also

★ Poetry

★ List of years in poetry