- 1820 in poetry
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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 friendJoseph Severn . Keats moved into a house on theSpanish Steps , inRome , where his health rapidly deteriorated. He would die in 1821.Poetry published
* 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"Births
*
Anne Brontë
*Henry Howard Brownell (US)
*Alice Patty Lee Cary (US)
* John Harris (Cornwall)
*John Henry Hopkins, Jr. (US)
*Jean Ingelow
*William J. Macquorn Rankine (Scotland)Deaths
*Joseph Rodman Drake
*William Hayley
*James Woodhouse ee also
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Poetry
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