1820 in poetry

Years in poetry:	1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823
Years in literature:	1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823
Decades in poetry:	1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s
Centuries in poetry:	18th century 19th century 20th century
Centuries:	18th century · 19th century · 20th century
Decades:	1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s
Years:	1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823

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Formation of the Apostles, a Cambridge University intellectual society
John Keats begins showing worse signs of tuberculosis. On the suggestion of his doctors, he left London for Italy with his friend Joseph Severn. Keats moved into a house on the Spanish Steps, in Rome, where his health rapidly deteriorated. He would die in 1821.

Elizabeth Barrett (Browning), The Battle of Marathon
Robert Burns, The Songs of Robert Burns
John Clare, Poems, Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery
Introduction of the limerick in The History of Sixteen Wonderful Old Women
John Keats, Lamia, The Eve of St. Agnes, Hyperion, and Other Poems including To Autumn
Alphonse de Lamartine, Méditations poétiques
Thomas Love Peacock, The Four Ages of Poetry, which sparked Shelley to write his Defence of Poetry
Aleksandr Pushkin, Ruslan and Ludmila
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound and Other Poems, and his essay on a philosophical view of reform (published in 1920)
William Wordsworth, The River Duddon, Vaudracour and Julia