1824 in poetry

• March – Samuel Taylor Coleridge elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in Britain.
• February 15 – Lord Byron falls ill at Missolonghi while taking part in the Greek War of Independence, dying of fever on April 19.
• May 7 – Première of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (the "Choral") at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna, incorporating a setting of Schiller's "Ode to Joy" (Ode an die Freude, 1785).
• May 17 – The publisher John Murray, together with five of Lord Byron's friends and executors, decides to destroy the manuscript of Byron's memoirs (which he has been given to publish) because he considers the scandalous details would damage Byron's reputation. Opposed only by Thomas Moore, the two volumes of memoirs are dismembered and burnt in the fireplace at the John Murray (publisher)'s office, 50 Albemarle Street in London.^[1]
• The United States Literary Gazette, a semi-monthly, begins publication. It publishes poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and William Cullen Bryant, among many others.^[2]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 25 – Michael Madhusudan Dutta (মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত also spelled "Maikel Modhushudôn Dôtto" and "Datta") (died 1873), born Madhusudan Dutt, Indian Gujarati and English-language poet and dramatist
• April 5 – Sydney Thompson Dobell (died 1874), English
• May 19 – William Allingham (died 1889), Irish
• July 25 – George Boyer Vashon (died 1878), African American lawyer, abolitionist, poet and scholar
• August 15 – Charles Godfrey Leland (died 1903), American folklorist
• August 21 – Caroline Dana Howe (died 1907), American poet, hymnwriter, and author^[6]
• September 4 – Phoebe Cary (died 1871), American
• October – James Lionel Michael (died 1868), Australian
• December 10 – George MacDonald (died 1905), Scots writer, poet and Christian minister
• Also – Aristotelis Valaoritis (died 1879), Greek

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• March 2 – Susanna Rowson (born 1762), British-American novelist, playwright, poet, lyricist, religious writer, stage actress and educator^[7]
• March 30 – Thomas Maurice (born 1754), English poet and scholar
• April 13 – Jane Taylor (born 1783), English poet and novelist
• April 19 – Lord Byron (born 1788), English poet and romantic hero
• August 15 – Carl Arnold Kortum (born 1745), German writer, poet and physician
• October 17 – Elizabeth Cobbold (born 1765), English poet
• November 23 – Matthäus Casimir von Collin (born 1779), Austrian poet

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