1822 in poetry

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Events

 * Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and Leigh Hunt start The Liberal, a periodical edited by John Hunt; it lasts four issues and ends with Shelley's death in August.

United Kingdom

 * William Barnes, Orra: A Lapland tale
 * Bernard Barton:
 * Napoleon, and Other Poems
 * Verses on the Death of Percy Bysshe Shelley
 * Thomas Haynes Bayly Erin, and Other Poems
 * Thomas Lovell Beddoes, The Bride's Tragedy
 * Robert Bloomfield, May Day with the Muses
 * Caroline Bowles (later Caroline Southey), The Widow's Tale, and Other Poems
 * Lord Byron:
 * Werner
 * review of Robert Southey's "The Vision of Judgement" in the first number of The Liberal on October 15; editor John Hunt omits Byron's preface justifying the attack on Southey, but leads Byron to believe that the omission resulted from the publisher withholding the preface.
 * The Vision of Judgment, published anonymously as by "Quevedo Redivivus", written in response to Southey's A Vision of Judgement 1821
 * Sardanapalus
 * The Two Foscari
 * Cain
 * George Croly, Catiline: A tragedy, including poems
 * Allan Cunningham, Sir Marmaduke Maxwell; The Mermaid of Galloway; The legend of Richard Faulder; and Twenty Scottish Songs
 * George Darley, The Errors of Ecstasie: A dramatic poem
 * Sir Aubrey de Vere, Julian the Apostate
 * Caroline Fry, Serious Poetry
 * James Hogg:
 * The Poetical Works of James Hogg
 * The Royal Jubilee: A Scottish mask, verse drama
 * Charles Lloyd, The Duke d'Ormond; and Beritola
 * Henry Hart Milman:
 * Balshazzar
 * The Martyr of Antioch
 * Mary Roberts (poet), The Royal Exile
 * Eleanor Anne Porden, Coeur de Lion
 * Samuel Rogers, Italy: Part the first, published anonymously, Part the Second 1828
 * Sir Walter Scott, Halidon Hill
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley, Hellas
 * William Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets

United States

 * Hew Ainslie, published anonymously, A Pilgrimage to the Land of Burns, a travel diary about a tour of Scotland, with elaborate descriptions of the scenery and with poetry inspired by the trip; published the same year the author immigrated to the United States
 * McDonald Clarke, Elixir of Moonshine, Being a Collection of Prose and Poetry by the Mad Poet, including the couplet "Now twilight lets her curtain down / And Pins it with a star." Clarke was known as "the Mad Poet of Broadway" because of his eccentric behavior, with impulsive, dramatic reactions to music, fashion and society, although his mild insanity would worsen later
 * James Lawson, "Ontwa, the Son of the Forest", describing the life of Erie Indians, including notes by Lewis Cass, territorial governor of Michigan; the poem was later included in Columbian Lyre; or, Specimens of Transatlantic Poetry, published in Glasgow 1828
 * James McHenry, The Pleasures of Friendship, short lyric poems and a 1,200-line title poem; nine more editions of the book would appear in the author's lifetime, each with added minor poems
 * James Gates Percival, Clio, the first two volumes of poetic soliloquies (a third volume was published in 1827)

Works published in other languages

 * Victor Hugo, Odes et poésies diverses, France
 * Alfred de Vigny, Poèmes, anonymously published; the author's first published book of poems France

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * December 4 - Georg Christian Dieffenbach, German
 * December 24 - Matthew Arnold, English
 * Thomas Buchanan Read, American
 * Charles Sangster, Canadian
 * James Monroe Whitfield, American

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * August 4 – Percy Bysshe Shelley (born 1792), (English)
 * July 18 — discovery of the badly decomposed body of Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet, after it washes ashore near Via Reggio; the body is identified by the copy of Lamia and Isabella in the jacket pocket. Edward Trelawny, a friend, removes Shelley's heart before the body is burned and gives it to Mary Shelley, who keeps it for the rest of her life. Shelley's ashes are interred at the Protestant Cemetery, Rome, where John Keats was buried the year before.
 * December 7 – John Aikin
 * date unknown - Józef Wybicki, Polish