1822 in poetry

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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.

William Barnes, Orra: A Lapland tale
Bernard Barton:
*Napoleon, and Other Poems
*Verses on the Death of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thomas Haynes Bayly Erin, and Other Poems
Thomas Lovell Beddoes, The Bride's Tragedy
Robert Bloomfield, May Day with the Muses
Caroline Bowles, The Widow's Tale, and Other Poems
Lord Byron:
*Cain
*Sardanapalus
*The Two Foscari
*The Vision of Judgment, published anonymously as by "Quevedo Redivivus" in the first number of The Liberal, written in response to Southey's A Vision of Judgement 1821; publisher John Hunt omits Byron's preface justifying the attack on Southey, indicating to Byron that the omission results from Byron's regular publisher John Murray withholding it when he forwarded the poem to Hunt.
*Werner
George Croly, Catiline: A tragedy, including poems
Allan Cunningham, Sir Marmaduke Maxwell; The Mermaid of Galloway; The legend of Richard Faulder; and Twenty Scottish Songs
George Darley, The Errors of Ecstasie: A dramatic poem
Sir Aubrey de Vere, Julian the Apostate
Caroline Fry, Serious Poetry
James Hogg:
*The Poetical Works of James Hogg
*The Royal Jubilee: A Scottish mask, verse drama
Charles Lloyd, The Duke d'Ormond; and Beritola
Henry Hart Milman:
*Balshazzar
*The Martyr of Antioch
Eleanor Anne Porden, Coeur de Lion
Samuel Rogers, Italy: Part the first, published anonymously, Part the Second 1828
Sir Walter Scott, Halidon Hill
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Hellas
William Wordsworth, ''Ecclesiastical Sonnets''

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
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.
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.
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
James Gates Percival, Clio, the first two volumes of poetic soliloquies. A third was published in 1827.

Victor Hugo, Odes et poésies diverses, France
Alfred de Vigny, Poèmes, anonymously published; the author's first published book of poems, France

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19 March – Józef Wybicki, Polish
27 March – Sir Alexander Boswell, 1st Baronet, Scottish politician, poet, songwriter and antiquary, killed in duel
8 July – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English
4 August – Kristjan Jaak Peterson, "father of Estonian poetry"
7 December – John Aikin, English editor
Date unknown – Hồ Xuân Hương, late Lê dynasty Vietnamese