1821 in poetry
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| Years in poetry: | 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 |
| Years in literature: | 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 |
| Decades in poetry: | 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s |
| Centuries in poetry: | 18th century 19th century 20th century |
| Centuries: | 18th century · 19th century · 20th century |
| Decades: | 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s |
| Years: | 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 |
| “ | Here lies one whose name was writ in water. | ” |
— words chisled onto the tombstone of John Keats, at his request
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[edit] Events
[edit] Works published
- Lord Byron:
- The Vision of Judgement
- Heaven and Earth
- written this year: Sardanapalus, The Two Foscari, Cain
- William Cullen Bryant, Poems
- John Clare, The Village Minstrel
- Alexander Pushkin denied it but is widely thought to be the author this April of Gavriiliada (the Gabriliad, in Russian), a sexually explicit, blasphemous work
- John Hamilton Reynolds, The Garden of Florence
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, Epipsychidion (anonymously) and Adonais (on John Keats) and writes his Defence of Poetry
- Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgement
[edit] Births
- March 19 - Richard Francis Burton (English) (died 1890)
- April 9 - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (French) (died 1867)
- July 8 - Maria White Lowell (American)
- November 28 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (Russian) (died 1877)
Dates unknown:
- Isabella Banks, née Varley (English)
- Frederick Locker Lampson
- Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (American)
[edit] Deaths
- January 14 - Jens Zetlitz, Norwegian
- February 23 — John Keats, English, in Rome from tuberculosis. He was buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome. His last request was followed, and so he was buried under a tomb stone without his name appearing on it but instead the words "Here lies one whose name was writ in water."
- March 17 - Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes, French
- Anne Hunter
