1814 in poetry

[edit] 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 stepsister, Mary Jane (later "Claire") Clairmont, 16; the trio quickly moves on to Switzerland. In September, they return to England.

[edit] 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

[edit] Births

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

[edit] Deaths

• Charles Dibdin
• Samuel Jackson Pratt
• Edward Rushton

[edit] See also

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• List of years in poetry