- 1817 in poetry
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dn3=1840s|— opening line of John Keats' "Endymion", published this yearEvents
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February 28 —Lord Byron writes a letter toThomas Moore and includes in it his poem, "So, we'll go no more a roving ". Moore will publish the poem in 1830 as part of "Letters and Journals of Lord Byron".Works published
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Lord Byron :
** "Manfred "
** "The Lament of Tasso"
*Thomas Moore , "Lalla Rookh "
*Robert Southey , "Wat Tyler : A Dramatic Poem"
*S. T. Coleridge , "Biographia Literaria", Vol. I
*John Keats , "Poems", including "Endymion"
* SirWalter Scott , "Harold the Dauntless"
*Percy Bysshe Shelley , "Laon and Cythna"; onDecember 1 , Shelley publishes a revised version retitled, "The Revolt of Islam" (but dated 1818)Births
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February 21 —José Zorrilla y Moral , (Spanish)
*July 12 —Henry David Thoreau (died 1862)
*September 14 —Theodor Storm , (German)
* dates not known:
**Cornelius Mathews (US)
** John McPherson (Canada)Deaths
Date not known —
Ann Batten Cristall (approx)ee also
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Poetry
*List of years in poetry
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