Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events 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. The United States Literary Gazette, a semi-monthly, begins publication. It publishes poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and William Cullen Bryant, among many others. Works published in English United Kingdom Edwin Atherstone, A Midsummer Day's Dream Bernard Barton, Revelations of the Dead-Alive Robert Bloomfield, The Remains of Robert Bloomfield (posthumous) Lord Byron, Don Juan, Cantos XV-XVI (March 24), published anonymously Thomas Campbell: Miscellaneous Poems Theodric, and Other Poems Catherine Grace Godwin, The Night Before the Bridal; Sappho; and Other Poems, published under the author's maiden name, "Catherine Grace Garnett" William Hazlitt, editor, Select British Poets, anthology William Knox, Songs of Israel, including "Mortality", Scotland Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing as "L.E.L.", The Improvisatrice, and Other Poems Amelia Opie, The Negro Boy's Tale Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley published in June by Mary Shelley; suppressed at insistence of Sir Timothy Shelley in September; includes "Julian and Maddalo", "The Witch of Atlas", "Prince Athanese", "Ode to Naples", "Mont Blanc", "Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude", "The Triumph of Life", "Marianne's Dream", "Letter to [Maria Gisborne]" Biography, criticism and scholarship in the United Kingdom Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron, criticism William Cowper, Private Correspondence of William Cowper, includes some poems United States William Cullen Bryant: Monument Mountain, a popular, blank-verse poem about an Indian princess who falls in love with her cousin, then commits suicide Mutation Royall Tyler, The Chestnut Tree, the author's