Events
- Formation of the Apostles, a Cambridge University intellectual society
- John Keats begins showing worse signs of tuberculosis. On the suggestion of his doctors, he left London for Italy with his friend Joseph Severn. Keats moved into a house on the Spanish Steps, in Rome, where his health rapidly deteriorated. He would die in 1821.
- Sir Walter Scott made a baronet
- William Wordsworth completed another major revision of The Prelude. This revision was begun in 1819. His first version, in two parts, was done in 1798 and 1799. A second major revision, bringing the work to 13 parts, occurred in 1805 and 1806. The book was not published in any form until shortly after his death in 1850, in a 14-part version. The revisions didn't just add text but removed and rearranged passages as well. Many of Wordsworth's friends read the book in manuscript during his lifetime.
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