English poets Wordsworth and Coleridge jointly publish Lyrical Ballads, a milestone in the Romantic movement

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is published in Lyrical Ballads

William Blake includes his poem 'Jerusalem' in the Preface to his book Milton

Walter Scott publishes The Lay of the Last Minstrel, the long romantic poem that first brings him fame

Walter Scott's poem Lady of the Lake brings tourists in unprecedented numbers to Scotland's Loch Katrine

Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from Oxford university for circulating a pamphlet with the title The Necessity of Atheism

English author Jane Austen publishes her first work in print, Sense and Sensibility, at her own expense

The first two cantos are published of Byron's largely autobiographical poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bringing him immediate fame

Pride and Prejudice, based on a youthful work of 1797 called First Impressions, is the second of Jane Austen's novels to be published

Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes probably his best-known poem, the sonnet Ozymandias

Two of Jane Austen's novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, are published in the year after her death

Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, a Gothic tale about giving life to an artificial man

William Cobbett brings back to England the bones of Thomas Paine, who died in the USA in 1809

Byron begins publication in parts of his longest poem, Don Juan an epic satirical comment on contemporary life

Walter Scott publishes Ivanhoe, a tale of love, tournaments and sieges at the time of the crusades

English poet John Keats publishes Ode to a Nightingale, inspired by the bird's song in his Hampstead garden

English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes Ode to the West Wind, written mainly in a wood near Florence

English author Thomas De Quincey publishes his autobiographical Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

English poet John Keats dies in Rome at the age of twenty-five

English radical William Cobbett begins his journeys round England, published in 1830 as Rural Rides

English author William Hazlitt publishes Table Talk, a two-volume collection that includes most of his best-known essays

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

English author Frances Trollope ruffles transatlantic feathers with her Domestic Manners of the Americans, based on a 3-year stay

24-year-old Charles Dickens begins monthly publication of his first work of fiction, Pickwick Papers (published in book form in 1837)

Charles Dickens' first novel, Oliver Twist, begins monthly publication (in book form, 1838)