1824 in poetry

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Events

March - Samuel Taylor Coleridge elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in Britain.
February 15 - Lord Byron falls ill at Missolonghi while taking part in the Greek War of Independence, dying of fever on April 19.
May 7 - Première of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna, incorporating a setting of Schiller's "Ode to Joy".
May 17 - The publisher John Murray, together with five of Lord Byron's friends and executors, decides to destroy the manuscript of Byron's memoirs because he considers the scandalous details would damage Byron's reputation. Opposed only by Thomas Moore, the two volumes of memoirs are dismembered and burnt in the fireplace at the John Murray (publisher)'s office, 50 Albemarle Street in London.The United States Literary Gazette, a semi-monthly, begins publication. It publishes poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and William Cullen Bryant, among many others.

Edwin Atherstone, A Midsummer Day's Dream
Bernard Barton, Revelations of the Dead-Alive
Robert Bloomfield, The Remains of Robert Bloomfield
Lord Byron, Don Juan, Cantos XV-XVI, published anonymously
Thomas Campbell:
* Miscellaneous Poems
* Theodric, and Other Poems
Catherine Grace Godwin, The Night Before the Bridal; Sappho; and Other Poems, published under the author's maiden name, "Catherine Grace Garnett"
William Hazlitt, editor, Select British Poets, anthology
William Knox, Songs of Israel, including "Mortality", Scotland
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing as "L.E.L.", The Improvisatrice, and Other Poems
Amelia Opie, The Negro Boy's Tale
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley published in June by Mary Shelley; suppressed at insistence of Sir Timothy Shelley in September; includes "Julian and Maddalo", "The Witch of Atlas", "Prince Athanese", "Ode to Naples", "Mont Blanc", "Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude", "The Triumph of Life", "Marianne's Dream", "Letter to "

Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron, criticism
William Cowper, Private Correspondence of William Cowper, includes some poems

William Cullen Bryant:
* Monument Mountain, a popular, blank-verse poem about an Indian princess who falls in love with her cousin, then commits suicide
* Mutation
Royall Tyler, The Chestnut Tree, the author's longest poem presents sketches of those who pass beneath a 200-year-old chestnut tree

Giacomo Leopardi, Italian
*Canzoni
*Versi
Wilhelm Müller, German
*Gedichte aus den hinterlassenen Papieren eines reisenden Waldhornisten, concludes publication
*Lieder der Griechen, concludes publication

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March 2 - Susanna Rowson, British-American novelist, playwright, poet, lyricist, religious writer, stage actress and educator
March 30 - Thomas Maurice, English poet and scholar
April 13 - Jane Taylor, English poet and novelist
April 19 - Lord Byron, English poet and romantic hero
August 15 - Carl Arnold Kortum, German writer, poet and physician
October 17 - Elizabeth Cobbold, English poet
November 23 - Matthäus Casimir von Collin, Austrian poet