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Events relating to english literature
English poets Wordsworth and Coleridge jointly publish Lyrical Ballads, a milestone in the Romantic movement
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is published in Lyrical Ballads
William Blake includes his poem 'Jerusalem' in the Preface to his book Milton
Walter Scott publishes The Lay of the Last Minstrel, the long romantic poem that first brings him fame
Walter Scott's poem Lady of the Lake brings tourists in unprecedented numbers to Scotland's Loch Katrine
Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from Oxford university for circulating a pamphlet with the title The Necessity of Atheism
English author Jane Austen publishes her first work in print, Sense and Sensibility, at her own expense
The first two cantos are published of Byron's largely autobiographical poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bringing him immediate fame
Pride and Prejudice, based on a youthful work of 1797 called First Impressions, is the second of Jane Austen's novels to be published
Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes probably his best-known poem, the sonnet Ozymandias
Two of Jane Austen's novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, are published in the year after her death
Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, a Gothic tale about giving life to an artificial man
Mary Anne Evans (known now as George Eliot) is born in the parish of Chilvers Coton in Warwickshire
William Cobbett brings back to England the bones of Thomas Paine, who died in the USA in 1809
Byron begins publication in parts of his longest poem, Don Juan an epic satirical comment on contemporary life
Walter Scott publishes Ivanhoe, a tale of love, tournaments and sieges at the time of the crusades
English poet John Keats publishes Ode to a Nightingale, inspired by the bird's song in his Hampstead garden
English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes Ode to the West Wind, written mainly in a wood near Florence
English author Thomas De Quincey publishes his autobiographical Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
English poet John Keats dies in Rome at the age of twenty-five
English radical William Cobbett begins his journeys round England, published in 1830 as Rural Rides
English author William Hazlitt publishes Table Talk, a two-volume collection that includes most of his best-known essays
12-year-old Charles Dickens works in London in Warren's boot-blacking factory
English author Frances Trollope ruffles transatlantic feathers with her Domestic Manners of the Americans, based on a 3-year stay
24-year-old Charles Dickens begins monthly publication of his first work of fiction, Pickwick Papers (published in book form in 1837)
