- 1818 in poetry
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John Keats falls in love withFanny Brawne (1800-65) and writes some of his finest poetry—the period from September of this year to September 1819 is often referred to among Keats scholars as the Great Year, or the Living Year ("see1819 in poetry ")*
March 12 —Percy Bysshe Shelley and family, along with his sister-in-lawClaire Clairmont , mother of Loyd Byron's child, leaves England for the Continent, reaching Milan April 4 and visiting the Italian lakes. In June they move to the Bagni di Lucca, where Shelley translates Plato's "Symposium ", writes "On Love," and completes "Rosalind and Helen ". In August, they move to Este, near Venice to be closer toLord Byron ; there Shelley begins "Prometheus Unbound." Their daughter Clara diesSeptember 24 and the Shelleys visit VeniceOctober 12 &ndash31, then travel to Rome and Naples, where they remain untilFebruary 28 ,1819 .Works published
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Kristijonas Donelaitis , "The Seasons" ("Metai" in Lithuanian), written about 1765-1775, is published inKönigsberg
*John Keats :
** "Endymion"
** "When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be "
*Percy Bysshe Shelley :
**"Ozymandias "
** "The Revolt of Islam ", originally "Laon and Cythna" (actually printed in December 1817 although dated this year)
*Lord Byron :
** "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage , Book IV"
** "Beppo "
*William Hazlitt , "Lectures on the English Poets"
*Leigh Hunt , "Foliage"
*Thomas Love Peacock , "Rhododaphne"Births
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January 24 -John Mason Neale
* April -Cecil Frances Alexander , née Humphreys
*July 30 -Emily Brontë (+1848 )
*December 24 -Eliza Cook Date unknown:
*Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle
*Alexander McLachlan (Canada)Deaths
* May 14 -
Matthew Gregory Lewis Date unknown:
* John Williamsee also
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Poetry
*List of years in poetry
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