- 1815 in poetry
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North American Review with signature of its editorWilliam Tudor (1779-1830) ]
*February 2 —Leigh Hunt released from prison after being jailed for criticizing the Prince Regent in "The Examiner"
*North American Review founded
* September —Lord Byron writesSamuel Taylor Coleridge of his admiration of "Christabel", which he has heard recited bySir Walter Scott ; Coleridge sends Byron a copy of the poem, and after reading it Byron realizes he has unconsciously borrowed from it in "Siege of Corinth"; he offers to omit the lines; yet on publication the lines remain and Byron offers an explanatory note.
*Percy Bysshe Shelley writes "Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude " which lacked a title when he passed it along to his friend,Thomas Love Peacock . Peacock suggested the name "Alastor" fromRoman mythology .Works published
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Lord Byron , "Hebrew Melodies ", including "She Walks in Beauty ", "The Destruction of Sennacherib " published in April with musical settings; though expensive at a cost of one guinea, over 10,000 copies sell; by summer, an edition of Byron's poems without the musical settings is published.
*Philip Morin Freneau , "Poems"
*Sir Walter Scott , "The Lord of the Isles"
*William Wordsworth , "Poems", including a revised version of "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud "Births
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Daniel Decatur Emmett (US)Deaths
* George Ellis
*Samuel Henley ee also
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Poetry
*List of years in poetry
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