of the Right Honorouble R. B. Sheriden, written at the request of Douglas Kinnaird; spoken at Drury Lane Theatre by Mrs. Maria Davison on this date November 18: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Part III; the publisher is able to sell 7,000 copies of both this work and The Prisoner of Chillon, and Other Poems to booksellers at a dinner in December. December 5: The Prisoner of Chillon, and Other Poems Poems "The Dream" "Prometheus" Darkness (inspired by the darkness of this year, see above) Manfred (completed and published 1817) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel; Kubla Khan: A Vision; The Pains of Sleep, including "Christabel" and "Kubla Khan" (May 25) Jane Ellis, Cerddi, Welsh, first published Welsh language book by a woman James Hogg: Mador of the Moor The Poetic Mirror; or, The Living Bards of Britain, published anonymously; has parodies of William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge and Robert Southey Leigh Hunt, Story of Rimini Hannah More, Poems Edward Quillinan, The Sacrifice of Isabel 'Quiz', illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson, The Grand Master, or Adventures of Qui Hi in Hindostan: a hudibrastic poem in eight cantos J. H. Reynolds, The Naiad, with Other Poems, published anonymously Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude; and Other Poems (including "Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude"), published in March John Keats, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" Robert Southey: The Lay of the Laureate: Carmen nuptiale, written for the marriage of Princess Charlotte; a privately printed edition with the title Carmen Nuptiale is also published this year The Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo John Wilson, The City of the Plague, and Other Poems William Wordsworth, Thanksgiving Ode, January 18, 1816 United States Joseph Rodman Drake, "The Culprit Fay", a 600-line poem about a fairy who falls in love with a mortal maiden in the Hudson Valley; republished in 1835 in The Culprit Fay and Other Poems John Neal, earliest poetry published in The Portico volumes 1 and 2 John Pierpont, The Airs of Palestine, a popular long poem which quickly went through three editions; traces the influence of music on Jewish history and praises sacred music; written while the author was a Baltimore shopkeeper, the popular poem gains him a reputation as one of the best American poets of his time Lydia Sigourney, using the pen name "Lydia Huntley", Moral pieces, in Prose and Verse, Hartford, Connecticut: Sheldon & Goodwin Alexander Wilson, Poems, Chiefly in the