1816 in poetry

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Years in poetry:	1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819
Years in literature:	1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819
Decades in poetry:	1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s
Centuries in poetry:	18th century 19th century 20th century
Centuries:	18th century · 19th century · 20th century
Decades:	1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s
Years:	1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819

Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 See also

[edit] Events

• This year was known as the "Year Without a Summer" after Mount Tambora had erupted in the Dutch East Indies the previous year and cast enough ash in to the atmosphere to block out the sun and cause abnormal weather across much of Northeastern United States and Northern Europe. This pall of darkness inspired Byron to write his poem, "Darkness" in July.
• Lord Byron separates from his wife then leaves England to tour Europe, settling in the summer in Switzerland, at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva; in late May he meets, and soon becomes friends with, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Shelley's wife-to-be Mary Godwin. Regular conversation with Byron has an invigorating effect on Shelley's poetry. While on a boating tour the two took together, Shelley was inspired to write his Hymn to Intellectual Beauty. Shelley, in turn, influenced Byron's poetry. This new influence showed itself in the third part of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, which Byron was working on, as well as in Manfred, which he wrote in the autumn of this year.
• In late August Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Woolstonecraft Godwin return to England from Switzerland, taking with them some of Byron's manuscripts for his publisher.
• Shelley is introduced to John Keats in Hampstead towards the end of the year by their mutual friend, Leigh Hunt, who was to transfer his enthusiasm from Keats to Shelley.
• December 30 — Shelley marries Mary Woolstonecraft Godwin after Shelley's first wife, Harriet, drowns herself (her body was found December 10).

[edit] Works published

• Lord Byron:
  • "Fare Thee Well" written
  • Parisina published together with The Siege of Corinth
  • The Prisoner of Chillon and other Poems
  • Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Part III; the publisher is able to sell 7,000 copies of both this work and The Prisoner of Chillon to booksellers at a dinner in December.
  • "The Dream"
  • "Prometheus"
  • Darkness (inspired by the darkness of this year, see above)
  • Manfred
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel and Other Poems, including Kubla Khan (written in 1797)
• Leigh Hunt, Story of Rimini
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor and Other Poems in February
• John Keats, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"
• Robert Southey, A Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo

[edit] Births

• April 21- Charlotte Brontë (died 1855)
• April 22 - Philip James Bailey

Dates unknown:

• Shirley Brooks, (English)
• Frances Brown (Browne)
• Josiah D. Canning (American)
• Philip Pendleton Cooke (American)
• Charles Heavysege (Canadian)

[edit] Deaths

• July 7 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 64, Irish playwright, Whig statesman, writer and poet

[edit] See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry