1815 in poetry

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Events

 * February 2 &mdash; Leigh Hunt released from prison after being jailed for criticizing the Prince Regent in The Examiner
 * North American Review founded
 * September &mdash; Lord Byron writes Samuel Taylor Coleridge of his admiration of Christabel, which he has heard recited by Sir 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" from Roman mythology.

United Kingdom

 * 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.
 * Louisa Costello, The Maid of the Cyprus Isle, and Other Poems
 * William Cowper (pronounced "Cooper"), Poems, by William Cowper, edited by John Johnson
 * James Hogg, The Pilgrims of the Sun
 * Leigh Hunt, The Descent of Liberty: A masque
 * Ann Radcliffe, Poems
 * Sir Walter Scott:
 * "The Lord of the Isles"
 * The Field of Waterloo, the Battle of Waterloo took place on June 18
 * Lydia Sigourney, Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse, United States
 * Robert Southey, The Minor Poems of Robert Southey, a reprinting of Poems 1796 and Metrical Tales 1805
 * William Wordsworth:
 * Poems, including a revised version of "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and Lyrical Ballads (published separately in 1798, 1800, 1802, 1805); a third volume published in 1820
 * The White Doe of Rylstone; or, The Fate of the Nortons

United States

 * Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Modern Chivalry: Containing the Adventures of a Captain, and Teague O'Regan, his Servant, United States
 * William Cullen Bryant, "To a Waterfowl", a widely popular and much anthologized poem in which the narrator's doubt and uncertainty is relieved by seeing a bird flying alone across the sky, inspiring belief in the guidance of God; later published in The North American Review in March 1818; Matthew Arnold called it "the best short poem in the language"
 * Philip Freneau, A Collection of Poems on American Affairs, two volumes of previously unpublished verses reflecting strong patriotism; released during the War of 1812
 * Lydia Sigourney, Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse, the author's first published book

Births
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 * October 29 – Daniel Decatur Emmett, American
 * Also:
 * Hagiwara Hiromichi 萩原広道 (died 1863), Japanese late-Edo period scholar of literature, philology, and nativist studies (Kokugaku) as well as an author, translator, and poet; known for his commentary and literary analysis of The Tale of Genji

Deaths
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 * January 21 - Matthias Claudius (born 1740), German
 * Also:
 * George Ellis
 * Samuel Henley (born 1740) English clergyman, school teacher, college principal, antiquarian, writer and poet