1821 in poetry

1821 in poetry

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in2?=in literature
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yp2=1819
yp3=1820
year=1821
ya1=1822
ya2=1823
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d=1820s
da=0
dn1=1830s
dn2=1840s
dn3=1850s|— words chisled onto the tombstone of John Keats, at his request

Events

Works published

* Lord Byron:
** "The Vision of Judgement"
** "Heaven and Earth"
** written this year: "Sardanapalus", "The Two Foscari", "Cain"
* William Cullen Bryant, "Poems"
* John Clare, "The Village Minstrel"
* Alexander Pushkin denied it but is widely thought to be the author this April of "Gavriiliada" (the "Gabriliad", in Russian), a sexually explicit, blasphemous work
* John Hamilton Reynolds, "The Garden of Florence"
* Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Epipsychidion" (anonymously) and "Adonais" (on John Keats) and writes his "Defence of Poetry"
* Robert Southey, "A Vision of Judgement

Births

* March 19 - Richard Francis Burton (English) (died 1890)
* April 9 - Charles Baudelaire (French) (died 1867)
* July 8 - Maria White Lowell (American)
* November 28 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (Russian) (died 1877)

Dates unknown:
* Isabella Banks, née Varley (English)
* Frederick Locker Lampson
* Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (American)

Deaths

* January 14 - Jens Zetlitz, Norwegian
* February 23 — John Keats, English, in Rome from tuberculosis. He was buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome. His last request was followed, and so he was buried under a tomb stone without his name appearing on it but instead the words "Here lies one whose name was writ in water."
*March 17 - Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes, French
* Anne Hunter

ee also

* Poetry
* List of years in poetry


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