1822 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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• August 4 – Percy Bysshe Shelley (born 1792), (English)
• July 18 — discovery of the badly decomposed body of Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet, after it washes ashore near Via Reggio; the body is identified by the copy of Lamia and Isabella in the jacket pocket. Edward Trelawny, a friend, removes Shelley's heart before the body is burned and gives it to Mary Shelley, who keeps it for the rest of her life. Shelley's ashes are interred at the Protestant Cemetery, Rome, where John Keats was buried the year before.
• December 7 – John Aikin
• date unknown
  • Ho Xuan Huong (born 1772), Vietnamese poet born at the end of the Lê Dynasty
  • Józef Wybicki, Polish