1817 in poetry

A thing of beauty is a joy forever &mdash; opening line of John Keats' Endymion, published this year

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Events

 * February 28 &mdash; Lord Byron writes a letter to Thomas 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.

United Kingdom

 * Lord Byron, The Lament of Tasso
 * S. T. Coleridge:
 * Sybilline Leaves, including a later version of "Frost at Midnight"
 * Zapolya: A Christmas tale
 * William Combe, The Dance of Life
 * George Croly, Paris in 1815
 * John Hookham Frere, Prospectus and Specimen of an Intended National Work by William and Robert Whistlecraft Relating to King Arthur and his Round Table [cantos i, ii]; cantos iii and iv published 1818
 * Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Modern Greece
 * John Keats, Poems by John Keats.
 * Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh: An oriental romance
 * Sir Walter Scott, Harold the Dauntless
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley:
 * Laon and Cythna, revised as The Revolt of Islam; originally published on December 1, but suppressed; at the insistence of the publisher, Ollier, passages were removed and Shelley published the retitled, revised version (but misdated 1818)
 * Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, written in 1816, published in Leigh Hunt's Examiner on January 19 of this year
 * "Mont Blanc", published in History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland, a book written with his wife, Mary, who wrote most of the prose (Percy Shelley wrote the poem)
 * Robert Southey, Wat Tyler: A Dramatic Poem

United States

 * William Cullen Bryant, "Thanatopsis" published in the North American Review as fragments that the editors combined under the title, the first American poem to gain attention and respect from British critics; a reflection on death; influenced by reading Thomas Gray, Henry Kirke White and Robert Southey; the author was not yet 20, and many were skeptical that a young man could write the sophisticated and powerful piece
 * Robert Charles Sands, The bridal of Vaumond; A Metrical Romance, New York: James Eastburn and Co.
 * The Village Songster: Containing a Selection of the Most Approved Patriotic and Comic Songs, including "He's Not Worth the Trouble" by Susanna Haswell Rowson, Haverhill, Massachusetts: "Printed by Burrill and Tileston, and sold at their bookstore", anthology

Births
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 * February 21 – José Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish
 * July 12 – Henry David Thoreau  (died 1862)
 * September 14 – Theodor Storm, German
 * December 15 – Raffaello Carboni (died 1875), Australian
 * Also:
 * Cornelius Mathews, American
 * John McPherson, Canada
 * Venmani Acchen Nambudiri (died 1891), Indian, Malayalam-language poet associated with the Venmani School of poetry

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * May 24 – Juan Meléndez Valdés (born 1754), Spanish
 * Also:
 * Moritz August von Thümmel (born 1738), German
 * Ann Batten Cristall (approx)