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1819
 
     
William Cobbett brings back to England the bones of Thomas Paine, who died in the USA in 1809        
1819
 
    
Byron begins publication in parts of his longest poem, Don Juan an epic satirical comment on contemporary life       
Byron, copy by Phillips, 1813
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1819
 
    
Walter Scott publishes Ivanhoe, a tale of love, tournaments and sieges at the time of the crusades       
1820
 
    
English poet John Keats publishes Ode to a Nightingale, inspired by the bird's song in his Hampstead garden       
1820
 
    
English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes Ode to the West Wind, written mainly in a wood near Florence       
Percy Bysshe Shelley, by Curran, 1819
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1821
 
    
English author Thomas De Quincey publishes his autobiographical Confessions of an English Opium-Eater       
Thomas de Quincey, by Watson-Gordon, 1845
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1821
 
   
English poet John Keats dies in Rome at the age of twenty-five      
Protestant cemetery in Rome, engraving after Walter Severn
Mary Evans Picture Library

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1821
 
    
English radical William Cobbett begins his journeys round England, published in 1830 as Rural Rides       
William Cobbett, possibly by Cooke, c.1831
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1821
 
   
English author William Hazlitt publishes Table Talk, a two-volume collection that includes most of his best-known essays      
William Hazlitt, copy by Bewick, 1825
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1824
 
   
12-year-old Charles Dickens works in London in Warren's boot-blacking factory