1824 in poetry

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 at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna, incorporating a setting of Schiller's "Ode to Joy".
• 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 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 's office, 50 Albemarle Street in London.
• The United States Literary Gazette, a semi-monthly, begins publication. It publishes poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and William Cullen Bryant, among many others.

  Works published in English

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• Edwin Atherstone, A Midsummer Day's Dream
• Bernard Barton, Revelations of the Dead-Alive
• Robert Bloomfield, The Remains of Robert Bloomfield
• Lord Byron, Don Juan, Cantos XV-XVI, published anonymously
• Thomas Campbell:
• * Miscellaneous Poems
• * Theodric, and Other Poems
• Catherine Grace Godwin, The Night Before the Bridal; Sappho; and Other Poems, published under the author's maiden name, "Catherine Grace Garnett"
• William Hazlitt, editor, Select British Poets, anthology
• William Knox, Songs of Israel, including "Mortality", Scotland
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing as "L.E.L.", The Improvisatrice, and Other Poems
• Amelia Opie, The Negro Boy's Tale
• 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 "

  Biography, criticism and scholarship in the United Kingdom

• Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron, criticism
• William Cowper, Private Correspondence of William Cowper, includes some poems

  United States">American poetry">United States

• William Cullen Bryant:
• * Monument Mountain, a popular, blank-verse poem about an Indian princess who falls in love with her cousin, then commits suicide
• * Mutation
• Royall Tyler, The Chestnut Tree, the author's longest poem presents sketches of those who pass beneath a 200-year-old chestnut tree

  Works published in other languages

France">French poetry">France

• Victor Hugo, Nouvelles Odes
• Alfred de Vigny, Éloa, ou La sœur des anges, a three-part epic

  Other

• Giacomo Leopardi, Italian
• *Canzoni
• *Versi
• Wilhelm Müller, German
• *Gedichte aus den hinterlassenen Papieren eines reisenden Waldhornisten, concludes publication
• *Lieder der Griechen, concludes publication

  Births

• January 25 - Michael Madhusudan Dutta , born Madhusudan Dutt, Indian Gujarati and English-language poet and dramatist
• April 5 - Sydney Thompson Dobell, English
• May 19 - William Allingham, Irish
• July 25 - George Boyer Vashon, African American lawyer, abolitionist, poet and scholar
• August 15 - Charles Godfrey Leland, American folklorist
• August 21 - Caroline Dana Howe, American poet, hymnwriter, and author
• September 4 - Phoebe Cary, American
• October - James Lionel Michael, Australian
• December 10 - George MacDonald, Scots writer, poet and Christian minister
• Also - Aristotelis Valaoritis, Greek

  Deaths

• March 2 - Susanna Rowson, British-American novelist, playwright, poet, lyricist, religious writer, stage actress and educator
• March 30 - Thomas Maurice, English poet and novelist
• April 19 - Lord Byron, English poet and romantic hero
• August 15 - Carl Arnold Kortum, German writer, poet and physician
• October 17 - Elizabeth Cobbold, English poet
• November 23 - Matthäus Casimir von Collin, Austrian poet