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Overview of the events of 1824 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France ).
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 (the "Choral") at the
Theater am Kärntnertor in
Vienna , incorporating a setting of
Schiller 's "
Ode to Joy " (Ode an die Freude ,
1785 ).
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 (which he has been given to publish) 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.
[1]
The United States Literary Gazette , a semi-monthly, begins publication. It publishes poetry by
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and
William Cullen Bryant , among many others.
[2]
Works published in English
Edwin Atherstone , A Midsummer Day's Dream
[3]
Bernard Barton , Revelations of the Dead-Alive
[3]
Robert Bloomfield , The Remains of Robert Bloomfield (posthumous)
[3]
Lord Byron ,
Don Juan , Cantos XV-XVI (March 24), published anonymously
[3]
Thomas Campbell :
Miscellaneous Poems
[3]
Theodric, and Other Poems
[3]
Catherine Grace Godwin , The Night Before the Bridal; Sappho; and Other Poems , published under the author's maiden name, "Catherine Grace Garnett"
[3]
William Hazlitt , editor, Select British Poets , anthology
[3]
William Knox , Songs of Israel , including "Mortality",
Scotland
Letitia Elizabeth Landon , writing as "L.E.L.", The Improvisatrice, and Other Poems
[3]
Amelia Opie , The Negro Boy's Tale
[3]
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 [Maria Gisborne]"
[3]
Biography, criticism and scholarship in the United Kingdom
William Cullen Bryant :
Monument Mountain , a popular, blank-verse poem about an Indian princess who falls in love with her cousin, then commits suicide
[2]
Mutation
[4]
Royall Tyler , The Chestnut Tree , the author's longest poem presents sketches of those who pass beneath a 200-year-old chestnut tree
[2]
Works published in other languages
Other
Giacomo Leopardi ,
Italian
Wilhelm Müller ,
German
Gedichte aus den hinterlassenen Papieren eines reisenden Waldhornisten ("Poems from the posthumous papers of a travelling horn-player"), concludes publication
Lieder der Griechen ("Songs of the Greeks"), concludes publication
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 25 –
Michael Madhusudan Dutta (মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত also spelled "Maikel Modhushudôn Dôtto" and "Datta") (died
1873 ), born Madhusudan Dutt,
Indian
Gujarati and
English -language poet and dramatist
April 5 –
Sydney Thompson Dobell (died
1874 ),
English
May 19 –
William Allingham (died
1889 ),
Irish
July 25 –
George Boyer Vashon (died
1878 ), African
American lawyer, abolitionist, poet and scholar
August 15 –
Charles Godfrey Leland (died
1903 ),
American folklorist
August 21 –
Caroline Dana Howe (died
1907 ),
American poet, hymnwriter, and author
[6]
September 4 –
Phoebe Cary (died
1871 ),
American
October –
James Lionel Michael (died
1868 ),
Australian
December 10 –
George MacDonald (died
1905 ),
Scots writer, poet and Christian minister
Also –
Aristotelis Valaoritis (died
1879 ),
Greek
Deaths
Lord Byron on his deathbed as depicted by
Joseph Denis Odevaere c.1826
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 2 –
Susanna Rowson (born
1762 ),
British -
American novelist, playwright, poet, lyricist, religious writer, stage actress and educator
[7]
March 30 –
Thomas Maurice (born
1754 ),
English poet and scholar
April 13 –
Jane Taylor (born
1783 ),
English poet and novelist
April 19 –
Lord Byron (born
1788 ),
English poet and
romantic hero
August 15 –
Carl Arnold Kortum (born
1745 ),
German writer, poet and physician
October 17 –
Elizabeth Cobbold (born
1765 ),
English poet
November 23 –
Matthäus Casimir von Collin (born
1779 ),
Austrian poet
See also
Notes
^ Eisler, Benita. Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame . p. 3.
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c Burt, Daniel S. (2004).
The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
ISBN
978-0-618-16821-7 .
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m Cox, Michael, ed. (2004).
The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-860634-6 .
^ Ludwig, Richard M.; Nault, Clifford A., Jr. (1986). Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983 . New York: Oxford University Press. "If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — Preface, p vi.
^ Rees, William,
The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950 , Penguin, 1992,
ISBN
978-0-14-042385-3
^ Sudlow, Lynda L. (2000).
A Vast Army of Women: Maine's Uncounted Forces in the American Civil War . Thomas Publications. p. 117.
ISBN
978-1-57747-049-6 .
^ Davis, Cynthia J.; West, Kathryn (1996).
Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-509053-6 . Retrieved 2009-02-07 . Timeline poetry.
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