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1804
 
    
William Blake includes his poem 'Jerusalem' in the Preface to his book Milton       
1805
 
    
Walter Scott publishes The Lay of the Last Minstrel, the long romantic poem that first brings him fame       
1810
 
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Walter Scott's poem Lady of the Lake brings tourists in unprecedented numbers to Scotland's Loch Katrine       
1811
 
    
Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from Oxford university for circulating a pamphlet with the title The Necessity of Atheism       
1811
 
    
English author Jane Austen publishes her first work in print, Sense and Sensibility, at her own expense       
1812
 
    
The first two cantos are published of Byron's largely autobiographical poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bringing him immediate fame       
1813
 
     
Pride and Prejudice, based on a youthful work of 1797 called First Impressions, is the second of Jane Austen's novels to be published        
1818
 
    
Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes probably his best-known poem, the sonnet Ozymandias       
1818
 
     
Two of Jane Austen's novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, are published in the year after her death        
1818
 
    
Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, a Gothic tale about giving life to an artificial man       
Mary Shelley, by Rothwell, c.1840
National Portrait Gallery, London

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