Calendar of Literary Facts

1820

  • John Keats publishes Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems
  • Alphonse de Lamartine publishes Meditations poetiques
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning publishes The Battle of Marathon: A Poem
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, with Other Poems
  • French Romanticism flourishes as a literary movement
  • Romanticism flourishes as a literary movement in Poland
  • The Missouri Compromise is enacted