1824 in poetry
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Events

• March - Samuel Taylor Coleridge elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Poetry published

• Lord Byron:
  • Don Juan, Cantos XV-XVI (March 24)
  • The Deformed Transformed
• Victor Hugo — Nouvelles Odes
• Percy Bysshe Shelley:
  • "The Triumph of Life" (posthumous)
  • Posthumous Poems published in June by Mary Shelley; suppressed at insistence of Sir Timothy Shelley in September
• Giacomo Leopardi - Canzoni and Versi
• Alfred de Vigny - Éloa, ou La sœur des anges

Births

• January 28 -Sabine Baring-Gould
• April 5 - Sydney Thompson Dobell (English)
• May 19 - William Allingham (Irish) (+ 1889)
• August 15 - Charles Godfrey Leland (US)
• September 4 - Phoebe Cary (US)
• December 10 - George MacDonald (Scotland)

Date unknown:

• George Boyer Vashon (US)

Deaths

Lord Byron on his deathbed as depicted by Joseph-Denis Odevaere c.1826

• April 19 - Lord Byron, (English), from fever in Greece

Dates unknown:

• Elizabeth Cobbold
• Thomas Maurice

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry