1821 in poetry
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— words chiselled onto the tombstone of John Keats, at his request
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Events
Works published in English
- Edwin Atherstone, The Last Days of Herculaneum[2]
- Joanna Baillie, Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters[2]
- John Banim, The Celt's Paradise[2]
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes, The Improvisatore, in Three Fyttes, with Other Poems[2]
- Lord Byron:
- Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice; The Prophecy of Dante, Marino Faliero performed April 25[2]
- Don Juan, cantos 3–5, published anonymously, see also Don Juan 1819, 1823, 1824[2]
- Sardanapalus; The Two Foscari; Cain, verse drama[2]
- The Vision of Judgment (spelling is correct)
- Heaven and Earth
- John Clare, The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems[2]
- William Gifford, The Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus, in Latin and English[2]
- Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Dartmoor
- William Hone, The Political Showman — At Home!, illustrated by George Cruikshank; those lampooned include Wellington, Lord Liverpool, George IV, Lord Castlereagh and John Stoddart, editor of The Times[2]
- Leigh Hunt, The Months[2]
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon ("L.E.L."), The Fate of Adelaide, and Other Poems[2]
- Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies, the first authorized edition of the author's lyrics; 10 editions by 1832
- Hannah More, Bible Rhymes[2]
- John Henry Newman and John William Bowden, St. Bartholomew's Eve, published anonymously[2]
- Bryan Waller Procter, writing under the pen name "Barry Cornwall", Mirandola: A tragedy, verse drama[2]
- J. H. Reynolds, The Garden of Florence
- Percy Bysshe Shelley:
- Horatio Smith, Amarynthus, the Nympholept, published anonymously[2]
- Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgement,[2] in which Southey criticizes Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, labeling them members of what Southey calls the "Satanic School" of poetry; Byron later decides he likes the name, and responds with his own work, A Vision of Judgment (with slightly different spelling in the title)
- Paul Allen, Noah, about the Bible story, but also discusses slavery and America's place in God's providence;[1] revised by John Neal[3]
- William Cullen Bryant, Poems, eight poems, including "The Ages", a poem in Spenserian stanzas on the history of mankind and expressing a positive outlook on the future, delivered at the Harvard commencement; also the last significant revision of "Thanatopsis"; the book, issued by Richard Henry Dana, Edward Channing and Willard Phillips, is a critical success which promotes Bryant's reputation, but it does not sell well[1]
- James Gates Percival, Poems, including the first part of "Prometheus"[1]
Works published in other languages
Births
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Deaths
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- Also:
- Anne Hunter (born 1742), Scots poet and songwriter who wrote the lyrics to many of Haydn’s songs
- Lucy Terry (born circa 1730 in Africa) first known African American poet, author of "Bars Fight, August 28, 1746", a ballad first printed in 1855[5]
- Sukey Vickery (born 1799), American novelist and poet (a woman)[5]
See also
Notes
- ^ 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 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ 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)
- ^ Cook, Roger F., A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine, "Introduction", Boydell & Brewer, 2002, ISBN 978-1-57113-207-9, retrieved via Google Books on April 2, 2009
- ^ a b Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West, Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History, Oxford University Press US, 1996 ISBN 978-0-19-509053-6, retrieved via Google Books on February 8, 2009
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