Events
- The period from September 1818 to September of this year is often referred to among scholars of John Keats as "the Great Year", or "the Living Year", because during this period he was most productive, writing his most critically acclaimed works. Several major events have been noted as factors in this increased productivity: namely, the death of his brother Tom, the critical reviews of Endymion, and his meeting Fanny Brawne. The famous odes he produced during the spring and summer of this year include: Ode to Psyche, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on Melancholy, and To Autumn. He also wrote the ballad "La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad" (French: "the beautiful lady without pity").
- Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote The Mask of Anarchy in reaction to the Peterloo Massacre and sent it to a newspaper for publication this year, although the poem was not published until 1832, when it appeared with a preface by Leigh Hunt.
- William Wordsworth begins another major revision of The Prelude. This version was completed in 1820. His first version, in two parts, was done in 1798 and 1799. A second major revision occurred in 1805 and 1806. The book was not published in any form until shortly after his death in 1850.
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