1850 in poetry— From Cantos 27 and 56, In Memoriam A.H.H., by Alfred Tennyson, published this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). May (late) – Alfred Tennyson's poem In Memoriam A.H.H.
1798 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). July 13 – William Wordsworth's poem Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour, 13 July 1798 written. William Wordsworth begins writing the first version of The Prelude, finishing it in two parts in 1799. This version describes the growth of his understanding up to age 17, when he departed for Cambridge University.
1799 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). August 1 – British Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson's defeat of the French fleet in the Battle of the Nile is the subject of separate poems this year by English poets William Lisle Bowles and William Sotheby. December 20 – William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy first take up residence at Dove Cottage, Grasmere. William Wordsworth completes the first version of The Prelude, begun in 1798.
1815 in poetryNationality 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.
