1815 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 2 — Leigh Hunt released from prison after being jailed for criticizing the Prince Regent in The Examiner. May — North American Review founded in Boston, Massachusetts. September — Lord Byron writes to Samuel Taylor Coleridge of his admiration of Christabel, which he has heard recited by Walter Scott; Coleridge sends Byron a copy of the poem, and after reading it Byron realizes he has unconsciously borrowed from it in Siege of Corinth; he offers to omit the lines; yet on publication the lines remain and Byron offers an explanatory note. Percy Bysshe Shelley writes Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude which lacks a title when he passes it along to his friend, Thomas Love Peacock. Peacock suggests the name "Alastor" from Roman mythology. First complete publication of the Old English epic poem Beowulf, in a Latin translation by Icelandic-Danish scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin. Lord Byron, Hebrew Melodies, including "She Walks in Beauty", "The Destruction of Sennacherib" published in April with musical settings; though expensive at a cost of one guinea, over 10,000 copies sell; by summer, an edition of Byron's poems without the musical settings is published. Louisa Costello, The Maid of the Cyprus Isle, and Other Poems William Cowper (pronounced "Cooper"), Poems, by William Cowper, edited by John Johnson James Hogg, The Pilgrims of the Sun Leigh Hunt, The Descent of Liberty: A masque Ann Radcliffe, Poems Walter Scott: "The Lord of the Isles" The Field of Waterloo (the Battle of Waterloo took place on June 18) Lydia Sigourney, Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse, United States Robert Southey, The Minor Poems of Robert Southey, a reprinting of Poems 1796 and Metrical Tales 1805 William Wordsworth: Poems, including a revised version of "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and Lyrical Ballads (published separately in 1798, 1800, 1802, 1805); a third volume published in 1820 The White Doe of Rylstone; or