1822 in poetry explained
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Events
- July – English poets Lord Byron, Leigh Hunt and Percy Bysshe Shelley agree to start The Liberal, a quarterly published by John Hunt in London from 15 October; it lasts for four issues.
- 8 July – Percy Bysshe Shelley, returning from setting up The Liberal in Livorno to Lerici on the Ligurian Sea of Italy, is drowned as his boat, the Don Juan, sinks in a storm. His decomposed body, washed ashore ten days later on the beach near Viareggio, is identified by a copy of Keats's Lamia and Isabella in the jacket pocket and cremated there in the presence of his friends Lord Byron and the adventurer Edward John Trelawny, who claims to have seized Shelley's heart from the flames. He 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 Keats was buried the year before.
- Uzbek poet Nodira becomes regent of the Khanate of Kokand during the minority of her son.
Works published in English
- Hew Ainslie, published anonymously A Pilgrimage to the Land of Burns, a travel diary of a tour of Scotland with elaborate descriptions of the scenery and with poetry inspired by the trip, published the same year as the author migrated to the United States[2]
- McDonald Clarke, Elixir of Moonshine, Being a Collection of Prose and Poetry by the Mad Poet, including the couplet "Now twilight lets her curtain down / And Pins it with a star." Clarke was known as "the Mad Poet of Broadway" for his eccentric behaviour, with impulsive, dramatic reactions to music, fashion and society, although his mild insanity worsened later.[2]
- James Lawson, "Ontwa, the Son of the Forest", describing the life of Erie Indians, including notes by Lewis Cass, territorial governor of Michigan; the poem was later included in Columbian Lyre; or, Specimens of Transatlantic Poetry, published in Glasgow 1828.[2]
- James McHenry, The Pleasures of Friendship, short lyric poems and a 1,200-line title poem; nine more editions of the book appeared in the author's lifetime, each with added minor poems[2]
- James Gates Percival, Clio, the first two volumes of poetic soliloquies. A third was published in 1827.[2]
Other languages
Births
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Deaths
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- 19 March – Józef Wybicki (born 1747), Polish
- 27 March – Sir Alexander Boswell, 1st Baronet (born 1775), Scottish politician, poet, songwriter and antiquary, killed in duel
- 8 July – Percy Bysshe Shelley (born 1792), English
- 4 August (23 July O.S.) – Kristjan Jaak Peterson (born 1801), "father of Estonian poetry"
- 7 December – John Aikin (born 1747), English editor
- Date unknown – Hồ Xuân Hương (born 1772), late Lê dynasty Vietnamese
See also
Notes and References
- Book: Cox, Michael . The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press . 2004 . 0-19-860634-6 . registration .
- Daniel S. Burt, The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, . Retrieved via Google Books
- Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950, Penguin, 1992,
- Web site: Virginia Lucas Poetry Scrapbook: Biography of Susan Archer Talley . University of Southern California. 10 March 2018. en. 6 December 2016.