1821 in poetry

— 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). The Saturday Evening Post founded in Philadelphia Lord Byron writes Sardanapalus, The Two Foscari and Cain Percy Bysshe Shelley's Queen Mab: a philosophical poem (1813) is distributed by an unauthorized publisher in London leading to prosecution by the Society for the Prevention of Vice. At about this date Sunthorn Phu is imprisoned and begins his epic poem Phra Aphai Mani. Edwin Atherstone, The Last Days of Herculaneum Joanna Baillie, Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters John Banim, The Celt's Paradise Thomas Lovell Beddoes, The Improvisatore, in Three Fyttes, with Other Poems Lord Byron: Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice; The Prophecy of Dante, Marino Faliero performed April 25 Don Juan, cantos 3–5, published anonymously, see also Don Juan 1819, 1823, 1824 Sardanapalus; The Two Foscari; Cain, verse drama The Vision of Judgment (spelling is correct) Heaven and Earth The Prophecy of Dante John Clare, The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems William Gifford, The Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus, in Latin and English Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Dartmoor William Hone, The Political Showman — At Home!, illustrated by George Cruikshank; those lampooned include Wellington, Lord Liverpool, George IV, Lord Castlereagh and John Stoddart, editor of The Times Leigh Hunt, The Months Letitia Elizabeth Landon ("L.E.L."), The Fate of Adelaide, and Other Poems Robert Millhouse, Vicissitude, a poem in four books and other pieces Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies, the first authorized edition of the author's lyrics; 10 editions by 1832 Hannah More, Bible Rhymes John Henry Newman and John William Bowden, St. Bartholomew's Eve, published anonymously John William Polidori (probable suicide August 24), The Fall of the Angels, published anonymously Bryan Waller Procter, writing under the pen name "Barry Cornwall", Mirandola: A tragedy, verse drama J. H.