Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events January 15 – Lord Byron takes his seat in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Summer – English painter J. M. W. Turner exhibits his oil Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps in the Royal Academy summer exhibition at Somerset House, London, the first time one of his paintings is accompanied by a catalogue quotation from his poem "Fallacies of Hope". He continues to quote from it until the last year he exhibits (1850) but it probably never exists as a whole work. Works published United Kingdom Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, which criticises Britain's participation in the Napoleonic Wars Bernard Barton, Metrical Effusions' or, Verses on Various Occasions, published anonymously Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Parts I-II, on March 20, with other books published in following years, up to 1818. Fourteen shorter poems also included. The publication of these first two cantos is received with acclamation, and Byron wrote, "I awoke one morning and found myself famous." The poem describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who, disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry, looks for distraction in foreign lands; in a wider sense, it is an expression of the melancholy and disillusionment felt by a generation weary of the wars of the post-Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. The title comes from the term childe, a medieval title for a young man who was a candidate for knighthood. The Curse of Minerva H. F. Cary, translator, Dante, Purgatorio and Paradiso William Combe, The Tour of Dr Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque, published anonymously; first published in monthly segments in 1809; The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax (1820); The Third Tour (1821); inspired various imitations, including The Tour of Doctor Syntax Through London and Doctor Syntax in Paris, both 1820 George Crabbe, Tales Mary Elliott, Simple Truths in Verse, published under the author's maiden name, "Mary Belson"; for children Reginald Heber, Poems and Translations Felicia Dorothea Browne, The Domestic Affections, and Other Poems Walter Savage Landor, Count Julian: A tragedy M. G. Lewis, Poems Eliza Macauley, Effusions of Fancy Thomas Love Peacock, The Genius of the Thames, Palmyra, and Other Poems (Palmyra, 1806; The Genius of the Thames, 1810) Samuel Rogers, Poems by Samuel Rogers P. B. Shelley, The Devil's Walk, a