Samuel Taylor Coleridge says that while writing Kubla Khan he is interrupted by 'a person on business from Porlock'

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

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

US lawyer Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner after seeing the British bombard Fort McHenry

US poet William Cullen Bryant publishes Thanatopsis, written seven years previously at the age of 16

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

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

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

7-year-old Henry Wadsworth Longfellow has a poem published in a newspaper in his home town of Portland, Maine

Russian poet Alexander Pushkin publishes his first long poem, Ruslan and Ludmilla

An American poem, A Visit from St Nicholas, describes in every detail the modern Santa Claus

20-year-old Edgar Allan Poe publishes Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems

Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem 'Old Ironsides' prompts a public response that saves the frigate from the scrapyard

Samuel Francis Smith's patriotic hymn America is sung for the first time on July 4 in Boston

Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem The Last Leaf is inspired by an aged survivor of the Boston Tea Party

The full text of Goethe's Faust, Parts 1 and 2, is published a few months after the poet's death

Alexander Pushkin publishes a novel in verse, Eugene Onegin

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Ballads and Other Poems includes 'The Village Blacksmith' and 'The Wreck of the Hesperus'

English poet Robert Browning publishes a vivid narrative poem about the terrible revenge of The Pied Piper of Hamelin

English author Thomas Babington Macaulay publishes a collection of stirring ballads, Lays of Ancient Rome