1815 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
	... 1805 . 1806 . 1807 . 1808 . 1809 . 1810 . 1811 ...; 1812 1813 1814 -1815- 1816 1817 1818; ... 1819 . 1820 . 1821 . 1822 . 1823 . 1824 . 1825 ... In literature: 1812 1813 1814 -1815- 1816 1817 1818
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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.

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.
Louisa Costello, The Maid of the Cyprus Isle, and Other Poems^[1]
William Cowper (pronounced "Cooper"), Poems, by William Cowper, edited by John Johnson^[1]
James Hogg, The Pilgrims of the Sun^[1]
Leigh Hunt, The Descent of Liberty: A masque^[1]
Ann Radcliffe, Poems^[1]
Sir Walter Scott:
- "The Lord of the Isles"
- The Field of Waterloo, the Battle of Waterloo took place on June 18^[1]
Lydia Sigourney, Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse, United States^[2]
Robert Southey, The Minor Poems of Robert Southey, a reprinting of Poems 1796 and Metrical Tales 1805^[1]
William Wordsworth:
- Poems, including a revised version of "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and Lyrical Ballads (published separately in 1798, 1800, 1802, 1805); a third volume published in 1820^[1]
- The White Doe of Rylstone; or, The Fate of the Nortons^[1]

Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Modern Chivalry: Containing the Adventures of a Captain, and Teague O'Regan, his Servant, United States^[3]
William Cullen Bryant, "To a Waterfowl", a widely popular and much anthologized poem in which the narrator's doubt and uncertainty is relieved by seeing a bird flying alone across the sky, inspiring belief in the guidance of God; later published in The North American Review in March 1818; Matthew Arnold called it "the best short poem in the language"^[4]
Philip Freneau, A Collection of Poems on American Affairs, two volumes of previously unpublished verses reflecting strong patriotism; released during the War of 1812^[4]
Lydia Sigourney, Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse, the author's first published book^[4]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

Hagiwara Hiromichi 萩原広道 (died 1863), Japanese late-Edo period scholar of literature, philology, and nativist studies (Kokugaku) as well as an author, translator, and poet; known for his commentary and literary analysis of The Tale of Genji

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

George Ellis
Samuel Henley (born 1740) English clergyman, school teacher, college principal, antiquarian, writer and poet

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 ^1.7 ^1.8 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
↑ Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West, Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History, Oxford University Press US, 1996 ISBN 978-0-19-509053-6, retrieved via Google Books on February 8, 2009
↑ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books

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