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Events

First issue of the North American Review with signature of its editor William Tudor (1779-1830)

• February 2 — Leigh Hunt released from prison after being jailed for criticizing the Prince Regent in The Examiner
• North American Review founded
• September — Lord Byron writes Samuel Taylor Coleridge of his admiration of Christabel, which he has heard recited by Sir Walter Scott; Coleridge sends Byron a copy of the poem, and after reading it Byron realizes he has unconsciously borrowed from it in Siege of Corinth; he offers to omit the lines; yet on publication the lines remain and Byron offers an explanatory note.
• Percy Bysshe Shelley writes Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude which lacked a title when he passed it along to his friend, Thomas Love Peacock. Peacock suggested the name "Alastor" from Roman mythology.

Works published

• Lord Byron, Hebrew Melodies, including "She Walks in Beauty", "The Destruction of Sennacherib" published in April with musical settings; though expensive at a cost of one guinea, over 10,000 copies sell; by summer, an edition of Byron's poems without the musical settings is published.
• Philip Morin Freneau, Poems
• Sir Walter Scott, "The Lord of the Isles"
• William Wordsworth, Poems, including a revised version of "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

Births

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• Daniel Decatur Emmett, American

Deaths

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• January 21 - Matthias Claudius (born 1740), German
• George Ellis
• Samuel Henley

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry