— 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.