1824 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

 * March - Samuel Taylor Coleridge elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
 * The United States Literary Gazette, a semi-monthly, begins publication. It published poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and William Cullen Bryant, among many others.

United Kingdom

 * Edwin Atherstone, A Midsummer Day's Dream
 * Bernard Barton, Revelations of the Dead-Alive
 * Robert Bloomfield, The Remains of Robert Bloomfield (posthumous)
 * Lord Byron, Don Juan, Cantos XV-XVI (March 24), published anonymously
 * Thomas Campbell:
 * Miscellaneous Poems
 * Theodric, and Other Poems
 * Catherine Grace Godwin, The Night Before the Bridal; Sappho; and Other Poems, published under the author's maiden name, "Catherine Grace Garnett"
 * William Hazlitt, editor, Select British Poets, anthology
 * Leticia Elizabeth Landon, writing as "L.E.L.", The Improvisatrice, and Other Poems
 * Amelia Opie, The Negro Boy's Tale
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley published in June by Mary Shelley; suppressed at insistence of Sir Timothy Shelley in September; includes "Julian and Maddalo", "The Witch of Atlas", "Prince Athanese", "Ode to Naples", "Mont Blanc", "Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude", "The Triumph of Life", "Marianne's Dream", "Letter to [Maria Gisborne]"
 * Biography, criticism and scholarship
 * Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron, criticism
 * William Cowper, Private Correspondence of William Cowper, includes some poems

United States

 * William Cullen Bryant:
 * Monument Mountain, a popular, blank-verse poem about an Indian princess who falls in love with her cousin, then commits suicide
 * Mutation
 * Royall Tyler, The Chestnut Tree, the author's longest poem presents sketches of those who pass beneath a 200-year-old chestnut tree

France

 * Victor Hugo, Nouvelles Odes
 * Alfred de Vigny, Éloa, ou La sœur des anges ("Éloa, or the Sister of the Angels"), a three-part epic

Other

 * Giacomo Leopardi - Canzoni and Versi, Italy

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 25 – Michael Madhusudan Dutta (মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত also spelled "Maikel Modhushudôn Dôtto" and "Datta") (died 1873), born Madhusudan Dutt, Indian, Gujarati-language poet and dramatist


 * January 28 – Sabine Baring-Gould
 * April 5 – Sydney Thompson Dobell, English
 * April 13 – Jane Taylor (born 1783), England poet and novelist
 * May 19 – William Allingham (died 1889), Irish
 * August 15 – Charles Godfrey Leland, American
 * September 4 – Phoebe Cary, American
 * December 10 – George MacDonald, Scots
 * Also:
 * James Lionel Michael (died 1868), Australian
 * Michael Madhusudan Dutt (born "Madhusudan Dutt" (Datta) Bengali: মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত (died 1873), Indian (writing in English) poet and dramatist
 * Aristotelis Valaoritis (died 1879), Greek
 * George Boyer Vashon, American

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: Dates unknown:
 * April 19 – Lord Byron, (English), from fever in Greece
 * August 15 – Carl Arnold Kortum (born 1745), German writer, poet and physician
 * Elizabeth Cobbold
 * Thomas Maurice
 * Susanna Rowson (born 1762), British-American novelist, playwright, poet, lyricist, religious writer, stage actress and educator