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Chronology

The following is a chronology of the birth and death dates of the major Romantic authors along with the publication dates of their major works. Where the publication dates differ vastly with the dates during which the works were written, a note has been made in parenthesis.

1757: Birth of William Blake

1770: Birth of William Wordsworth

1772: Birth of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1788: Birth of George Gordon, Lord Byron

1789-1794: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

1790-1793: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

1792: Birth of Percy Shelley

1795: Birth of John Keats

1796: The Eolian Harp

1797: Birth of Mary Shelley

1798: Lyrical Ballads, including "Tintern Abbey"; The Ancient Mariner; Frost At Midnight

1800: Preface to the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads; This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison

1802: Dejection: An Ode

1807: Ode: Intimations of Immortality

1816: Christabel; To Wordsworth

1817: Biographia Literaria; Manfred; Hymn to Intellectual Beauty; Mont Blanc

1817-1818: Keats's Letters

1818: Ozymandias; Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; Frankenstein

1820: La Belle Dame Sans Merci; Ode To A Nightingale; Ode On A Grecian Urn

1821: Death of John Keats

1822: Death of Percy Shelley

1824: Don Juan; Death of George Gordon, Lord Byron

1827: Death of William Blake

1834: Death of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1840: A Defence of Poetry (written in 1821)

1850: Death of William Wordsworth; The Prelude (written 1804-5)

1851: Death of Mary Shelley