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Events
- Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and Leigh Hunt found The Liberal, edited by John Hunt; it lasts four issues and ends with Shelley's death in August.
Poetry published
- Lord Byron:
- Werner
- review of Robert Southey's "The Vision of Judgement" in the first number of The Liberal on October 15; editor John Hunt omits Byron's preface justifying the attack on Southey, but leads Byron to believe that the omission resulted from the publisher withholding the preface.
- Sardanapalus
- The Two Foscari
- Cain
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Hellas"
- Eleanor Anne Porden, Coeur de Lion
- Mary Roberts, The Royal Exile
Births
- 24 December — Matthew Arnold, English poet
- Thomas Buchanan Read (American)
- Charles Sangster (Canadian)
- James Monroe Whitfield (American)
Deaths
- John Aikin
- July 18 — discovery of the badly decomposed body of Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet, after it washes ashore near Via Reggio; the body is identified by the copy of Lamia and Isabella in the jacket pocket. Edward Trelawny, a friend, removes Shelley's heart before the body is burned and gives it to Mary Shelley, who keeps it for the rest of her life. Shelley's ashes are interred at the Protestant Cemetery, Rome, where John Keats was buried the year before.
- date unknown - Józef Wybicki, Polish
See also
