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Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

— words chiselled onto the tombstone of John Keats, at his request

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

Events[]

  • The Saturday Evening Post founded in Philadelphia[1]
  • Lord Byron writes Sardanapalus, The Two Foscari and Cain

Works published in English[]

File:Crane Protestant Cemetery.jpg

Shelley's Tomb in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome (1873) by Walter Crane. The tombstone in the foreground is actually that of John Keats

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Tomb of John Keats

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

  • Paul Allen, Noah, about the Bible story, but also discusses slavery and America's place in God's providence;[1] revised by John Neal[3]
  • William Cullen Bryant, Poems, eight poems, including "The Ages", a poem in Spenserian stanzas on the history of mankind and expressing a positive outlook on the future, delivered at the Harvard commencement; also the last significant revision of "Thanatopsis"; the book, issued by Richard Henry Dana, Edward Channing and Willard Phillips, is a critical success which promotes Bryant's reputation, but it does not sell well[1]
  • James Gates Percival, Poems, including the first part of "Prometheus"[1]

Works published in other languages[]

  • Alexander Pushkin denied it but is widely thought to be the author this April of Gavriiliada (the Gabriliad, in Russian), a sexually explicit, blasphemous work
  • Heinrich Heine, Gedichte, his first published collection[4]

Births[]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

Also

Deaths[]

File:KeatsDeathMask.jpg

Life and Death masks of John Keats, Rome

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

  • January 14 – Jens Zetlitz, Norwegian
  • February 23 – John Keats, English, in Rome from tuberculosis. He was buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome. His last request was followed, and so he was buried under a tomb stone without his name appearing on it but instead the words "Here lies one whose name was writ in water."
  • March 17 – Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes, French
  • April 15 – Johann Christoph Schwab (born 1743), German
  • May 11 – George Howe (born 1769), the first Australian editor, poet and early printer
Also
    • Anne Hunter (born 1742), Scots poet and songwriter who wrote the lyrics to many of Haydn’s songs
    • Lucy Terry (born circa 1730 in Africa) first known African American poet, author of "Bars Fight, August 28, 1746", a ballad first printed in 1855[5]
    • Sukey Vickery (born 1799), American novelist and poet (a woman)[5]

See also[]

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Notes[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
  2. 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  3. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
  4. Cook, Roger F., A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine, "Introduction", Boydell & Brewer, 2002, ISBN 978-1-57113-207-9, retrieved via Google Books on April 2, 2009
  5. 5.0 5.1 Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West, Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History, Oxford University Press US, 1996 ISBN 978-0-19-509053-6, retrieved via Google Books on February 8, 2009


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