1819 IN POETRY

Contents

Events

Works published

Births

Deaths

See also

Events

★ The period from September 1818 to September of this year is often referred to among scholars of John Keats as "the Great Year", or "the Living Year", because during this period he was most productive, writing his most critically acclaimed works. Several major events have been noted as factors in this increased productivity: namely, the death of his brother Tom, the critical reviews of ''Endymion'', and his meeting Fanny Brawne. The famous odes he produced during the spring and summer of this year include: ''Ode to Psyche'', ''Ode on a Grecian Urn'', ''Ode to a Nightingale'', ''Ode on Melancholy'', and ''To Autumn''. He also wrote the ballad "" (French: "the beautiful lady without pity").

Works published

★ Lord Byron:

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★ June 28 — ''Mazeppa and "Ode on Venice" published

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★ "Wellington: The Best of the Cut-Throats", a poem attacking Lord Wellington

★ Thomas Campbell, ''Specimens of the British Poets''

★ Barry Cornwall, ''Dramatic Scenes and other Poems''

★ Leigh Hunt:

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★ "Hero and Leander"

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★ "Bacchies"

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★ "Ariadne"

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★ ''Poetical Works'' including reprints of "Bacchies", "Ariadne", ''The Story of Rimini'' and "The Descent of Liberty"

★ John Keats, ''Odes''

★ Percy Bysshe Shelley, ''The Cenci''

★ William Wordsworth, ''Peter Bell'' and ''The Waggoner''

Births

★ January 1 — Arthur Hugh Clough, English (died 1861)

★ February 12 — William Wetmore Story, American

★ February 22 — James Russell Lowell, American (died 1891)

★ May 27 — Julia Ward Howe, American

★ May 31 — Walt Whitman, American (died 1892)

★ June 12 — Charles Kingsley, (English)

★ August 1 — Herman Melville, American (died 1892)

★ November 22 — Mary Ann Evans (pseud. "George Eliot"), English

★ December 30 — Theodor Fontane, German
Dates not known:

★ Thomas Dunn English, American

★ Josiah Gilbert Holland, American

Deaths

★ January 14 - John Wolcot

See also

★ Poetry

★ List of years in poetry