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Events

• September 14 — Francis Scott Key writes "The Star-Spangled Banner" during the British attack near Baltimore, Maryland
• Augusta Gordon bore her half-brother Lord Byron's daughter
• July 27 — Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin elope to war-ravaged France, accompanied by Godwin's step-sister, Mary Jane (later "Claire") Clairmont, 16; the trio quickly moves on to Switzerland. In September, they return to England.

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Works published

• Lord Byron:
  • The Corsair, sells 10,000 copies on the first day (February 1), and over 25,000 copies in the first month, going through seven editions
  • "Lara" written May 14–June 14 and published anonymously in the summer, it sells 6,000 copies by early August
  • "Ode to Napoleon" written April 9 when Napoleon abdicates, published April 16
• Robert Southey, Roderick, the Last of the Goths
• William Wordsworth, The Excursion

Lord Byron, English poet Lord Byron (1803), as painted by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (January 22, 1788 – April 19, 1824) was the most widely read English language poet of his day. ... The Corsair was a semi-autobiographical tale about a pirate written by Lord Byron, which was extremely popular and influential in its day (it sold ten thousand copies on its first day of sale. ... February 1 is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... May 14 is the 134th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (135th in leap years). ... June 14 is the 165th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (166th in leap years), with 200 days remaining. ... April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). ... April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). ... Robert Southey, English poet Robert Southey (August 12, 1774 – March 21, 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called Lake Poets, and Poet Laureate. ... William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850) was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads. ...

Births

• Sarah Tittle Bolton, née Barrett
• James Joseph Sylvester
• Aubrey Thomas De Vere

James Joseph Sylvester James Joseph Sylvester (September 3, 1814 London - March 15, 1897 Oxford) was an English mathematician. ... Aubrey Thomas de Vere (10 January 1814 - 20 January 1902) was an Irish poet and critic. ...

Deaths

• Charles Dibdin
• Samuel Jackson Pratt
• Edward Rushton

Charles Dibdin (March 4?, 1745 - July 25, 1814), British musician, dramatist, novelist, actor and song-writer, the son of a parish clerk, was born in Southampton on or before the 4th of March 1745, and was the youngest of a family of eighteen. ...

See also

Poetry Portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry