Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events February – A monument to Scottish poet Robert Burns (died 1796) is opened in Alloway. May 23 – Russian writer Alexander Pushkin begins work on his verse novel Eugene Onegin. December – English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, suffering from opium addiction, takes up residence at No. 3, The Grove, Highgate, London, a house owned by Dr. James Gillman. December 23 – Clement Clarke Moore's poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", also known as "Twas the Night Before Christmas" from its first line, is first published (anonymously) in the Troy, New York, Sentinel, and then other newspapers this year and is largely responsible for the American conception of the character he introduces named as "Santa Claus" (attributed to various authors, including Major Henry Beekman Livingston, but most often now to Moore). Works published in English Robert Bloomfield, Hazelwood Hall, verse drama William Lisle Bowles, Ellen Gray; or, The Dead Maiden's Curse Edward Lytton Bulwer (later Bulwer-Lytton), Delmour; or, A Tale of a Sylphid, and Other Poems Lord Byron: Don Juan: July 15 – Cantos VI, VII, VIII, with a Preface, were published August 29 – Cantos IX, X, XI were published December 17 – Cantos XII, XIII, XIV The Island; or, Christian and His Comrades Sir Aubrey de Vere, The Duke of Mercia; The Lamentation of Ireland; and Other Poems Ebenezer Elliott, Love Felicia Dorothea Hemans: The Siege of Valencia; The Last Constantine; with Other Poems The Vespers of Palermo: A tragedy, verse drama Mary Howitt and William Howitt, The Forest Minstrel, and Other Poems Leigh Hunt, Ultara Crepidarius, a satire on William Gifford Charles Lloyd, Poems J. G. Lockhart, Ancient Spanish Ballads, Historical and Romantic Robert Millhouse, Blossoms, Being a selection of sonnets. Thomas Moore, The Loves of the Angels Bryan Waller Procter, pen name "Barry Cornwall", The Flood of Thessaly, The Girl of Provence, and Other Poems Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Lillian Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poetical Pieces by the Late Percy Bysshe Shelley Helen Maria Williams, Poems on Various Subjects United States George Bancroft, Poems Fitz-Greene Halleck, "Alnwick Castle", set in Scotland and contrasts the romantic past with the "bank-note-world" of the present James McHenry, Waltham, patriotic poem in three cantos; about George Washington at Valley Forge Clement Clarke Moore, "A Visit from St. Nicholas" Edward Coote Pinkney, Rudolph, a Byronic