near Venice to be closer to Lord Byron; there Shelley begins Prometheus Unbound. Their daughter Clara dies September 24 and the Shelleys visit Venice October 12–31, then travel to Rome and Naples, where they remain until February 28, 1819. September 19 – Lord Byron writes to Thomas Moore, telling him he has completed the first Canto of Don Juan (which he began on July 3). Emancipated convict and writer of patriotic verse Michael Massey Robinson is paid by Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales, for services as poet laureate to the colony. Works published United Kingdom OzymandiasBy Percy Bysshe Shelley I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. Bernard Barton:The Convict's AppealPoems, anonymously published as "by an amateur" Thomas Haynes Bayly, published under the pen name "Q. in the Corner", Parliamentary Letters, and Other Poems Mary Matilda Betham, Vignettes William Blake, Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion, illuminated book of 100 plates, estimated to have been published this date, although "1804" is printed on the title plate, but "this probably indicates the date when Blake began the work" Sir Thomas Burges, The Dragon Knight Lord Byron: Beppo: A Venetian story, published anonymously Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Fourth (see also Child Harold, 1812, 1816) William Hazlitt, Lectures on the English Poets (criticism) Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Translations from Camoens and Other Poets, with Original Poetry Leigh Hunt: Foliage; or, Poems Original and Translated Literary Pocket-Book (miscellaneous poetry and prose) John Keats: Endymion "When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be" Thomas Moore, publishing as "Thomas Brown the Younger", The Fudge Family in Paris, at least nine editions published this year Hannah More, Tragedies Thomas Love Peacock, Rhododaphne; or, The Thessalian Spell Percy Bysshe Shelley: Julian and Maddalo Ozymandias William Sotheby, Farewell to Italy, and