Events
- February 2 — Leigh Hunt released from prison after being jailed for criticizing the Prince Regent in The Examiner
- North American Review founded
- September — Lord Byron writes Samuel Taylor Coleridge of his admiration of Christabel, which he has heard recited by Sir Walter Scott; Coleridge sends Byron a copy of the poem, and after reading it Byron realizes he has unconsciously borrowed from it in Siege of Corinth; he offers to omit the lines; yet on publication the lines remain and Byron offers an explanatory note.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley writes Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude which lacked a title when he passed it along to his friend, Thomas Love Peacock. Peacock suggested the name "Alastor" from Roman mythology.
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