- 1814 in poetry
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September 14 —Francis Scott Key writes "The Star-Spangled Banner" during the British attack nearBaltimore, Maryland
* Augusta Gordon bore her half-brother Lord Byron's daughter
*July 27 —Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin elope to war-ravaged France, accompanied by Godwin's stepsister, Mary Jane (later "Claire") Clairmont, 16; the trio quickly moves on to Switzerland. In September, they return to England.Works published
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Lord Byron :
** "The Corsair ", sells 10,000 copies on the first day (February 1 ), and over 25,000 copies in the first month, going through seven editions
** "Lara" writtenMay 14 –June 14 and published anonymously in the summer, it sells 6,000 copies by early August
** "Ode to Napoleon" writtenApril 9 when Napoleon abdicates, publishedApril 16
*Robert Southey , "Roderick, the Last of the Goths"
*William Wordsworth , "The Excursion"Births
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Sarah Tittle Bolton , née Barrett
*James Joseph Sylvester
*Aubrey Thomas De Vere Deaths
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Charles Dibdin
*Samuel Jackson Pratt
*Edward Rushton ee also
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Poetry
*List of years in poetry
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