1821 in poetry

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“

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

”

— words chisled onto the tombstone of John Keats, at his request

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Shelley's Tomb in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome (1873) by Walter Crane. The tombstone in the foreground is actually that of John Keats

Lord Byron:
- The Vision of Judgement
- Heaven and Earth
- written this year: Sardanapalus, The Two Foscari, Cain
William Cullen Bryant, Poems
John Clare, The Village Minstrel
Alexander Pushkin denied it but is widely thought to be the author this April of Gavriiliada (the Gabriliad, in Russian), a sexually explicit, blasphemous work
John Hamilton Reynolds, The Garden of Florence
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Epipsychidion (anonymously) and Adonais (on John Keats) and writes his Defence of Poetry
Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgement

Dates unknown:

Life and Death masks of John Keats, Rome

January 14 - Jens Zetlitz, Norwegian
February 23 — John Keats, English, in Rome from tuberculosis. He was buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome. His last request was followed, and so he was buried under a tomb stone without his name appearing on it but instead the words "Here lies one whose name was writ in water."
March 17 - Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes, French
Anne Hunter

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