1817 in poetry

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Events

  • February 28 – Lord Byron writes a letter to Thomas Moore and includes in it his poem, "So, we'll go no more a roving". Moore will publish the poem in 1830 as part of Letters and Journals of Lord Byron.
  • March – Percy and Mary Shelley with Claire Clairmont and the latter's new daughter by Byron, Allegra (at this time called Alba), having moved from Bath, begin a year's residence in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England, where Mary completes Frankenstein and gives birth to her third child, and Percy writes The Revolt of Islam.{{cite web|title=The Shelleys Move to Marlow – Frankenstein Completed|url=https://www.frankensteindiaries.com/2017/02/the-shelleys-move-to-marlow-frankenstein-completed/|work=Frankenstein Diaries|accessdate=2020-08-03}}
  • September 19 – The body of Scottish poet Robert Burns (died 1796) is moved to a new mausoleum in Dumfries.{{cite web|title=Robert Burns Mausoleum|url=http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/dumfries/burnsmausoleum/|work=Undiscovered Scotland|accessdate=2014-08-27}}
  • December 28 – English painter Benjamin Haydon introduces John Keats to William Wordsworth and Charles Lamb at a dinner in London to celebrate progress on his painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem (in which all feature).{{cite book|title=The Immortal Evening: a legendary dinner with Keats, Wordsworth and Lamb|first=Stanley|last=Plumly|authorlink=Stanley Plumly|location=New York|publisher=W. W. Norton & Co|year=2014|isbn=978-0-393-08099-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/immortaleveningl0000plum}}

Works published

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  • William Cullen Bryant, "Thanatopsis" published in the North American Review as fragments that the editors combined under the title, the first American poem to gain attention and respect from British critics; a reflection on death; influenced by reading Thomas Gray, Henry Kirke White and Robert Southey; the author was not yet 20, and many were skeptical that a young man could write the sophisticated and powerful pieceCarruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993Burt, Daniel S., [https://books.google.com/books?id=VQ0fgo5v6e0C The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times], Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, {{ISBN|978-0-618-16821-7}}, retrieved via Google Books
  • John Neal, poetry published in The Portico volumes 3 and 4{{cite book | last = Sears | first = Donald A. | title = John Neal | publisher = Twayne Publishers | location = Boston, Massachusetts | year = 1978 | isbn = 080-5-7723-08 | page = 24}}
  • Robert Charles Sands, The bridal of Vaumond; A Metrical Romance, New York: James Eastburn and Co.Web page titled [https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/AmPo1/AmPo.bib.html "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography"] at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
  • The Village Songster: Containing a Selection of the Most Approved Patriotic and Comic Songs, including "He's Not Worth the Trouble" by Susanna Haswell Rowson, Haverhill, Massachusetts: "Printed by Burrill and Tileston, and sold at their bookstore", anthology

Births

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Deaths

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See also

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Notes

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