April –
Lord Byron leaves England for good to tour continental Europe.
April 14 –
Lord Byron's poems "A Sketch from Private Life" and "
Fare Thee Well", about his separation from his wife
Anne Isabella, are published without authority in The Champion.
May 5 – The first published poem by 20-year-old trainee surgeon
John Keats, the sonnet "To Solitude", appears in The Examiner.[2]
May 9 –
Lady Caroline Lamb's anonymous novel Glenarvon is the first book published independently by
Henry Colburn in London. A roman à clef, it contains an unflattering portrait of her ex-lover
Lord Byron in the
rakish title character of Lord Glenarvon[3] and provokes Purity of Heart; Or, The Ancient Costume: A Tale, in One Volume, Addressed to the Author of Glenarvon, "a virulent, polemical novel" by "An old wife of twenty years", actually clergyman's spouse
Elizabeth Thomas.[4]
December –
John Keats composes the poem "
Sleep and Poetry" while staying at the Hampstead house of his friend
Leigh Hunt, who introduces him to Shelley.
Franz Bopp – Über das Conjugationssystem der Sanskritsprache in Vergleichung mit jenem der griechischen, lateinischen, persischen und germanischen Sprache (On the Conjugation System of Sanskrit in comparison with that of Greek, Latin, Persian and Germanic)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Statesman's Manual; or, The Bible the best guide to political skill and foresight: a lay sermon
John Hoyland – A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, and Present State of the Gypsies
Nikolay Karamzin – History of the Russian State (История государства Российского, Istoriya gosudarstva Rossiyskogo; publication begins)
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