- 1822 in poetry
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c=19th century
cf=20th centuryyp1=1819
yp2=1820
yp3=1821
year=1822
ya1=1823
ya2=1824
ya3=1825
dp3=1790s
dp2=1800s
dp1=1810s
d=1820s
da=0
dn1=1830s
dn2=1840s
dn3=1850s|Events
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Lord Byron ,Percy Shelley andLeigh Hunt foundThe Liberal , edited byJohn Hunt ; it lasts four issues and ends with Shelley's death in August.Poetry published
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Lord Byron :
** "Werner"
** review of Robert Southey's "The Vision of Judgement" in the first number of "The Liberal" onOctober 15 ; editorJohn Hunt omits Byron's preface justifying the attack on Southey, but leads Byron to believe that the omission resulted from the publisher withholding the preface.
** "Sardanapalus"
** "The Two Foscari"
** "Cain"
*Percy Bysshe Shelley , "Hellas"
*Eleanor Anne Porden , "Coeur de Lion"
*Mary Roberts, "The Royal Exile"Births
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24 December —Matthew Arnold , English poet
*Thomas Buchanan Read (American)
*Charles Sangster (Canadian)
*James Monroe Whitfield (American)Deaths
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John Aikin
*July 18 — discovery of the badly decomposed body ofPercy Bysshe Shelley , English poet, after it washes ashore nearVia Reggio ; the body is identified by the copy of "Lamia" and "Isabella" in the jacket pocket.Edward Trelawny , a friend, removes Shelley's heart before the body is burned and gives it toMary Shelley , who keeps it for the rest of her life. Shelley's ashes are interred at theProtestant Cemetery, Rome , whereJohn Keats was buried the year before.
* "date unknown" -Józef Wybicki , Polishee also
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Poetry
*List of years in poetry
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