CHRONOLOGY OF PUBLICATIONS AND EVENTS1820 Elizabeth Barrett, The Battle of Marathon
1824 L.E.L. [Letitia Elizabeth Landon], The Improvisatrice
1826 Elizabeth Barrett, An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems
1827 John Clare, The Shepherd's Calendar
John Keble, The Christian Year
182 8 Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman and Other Poems
L.E.L., The Venetian Bracelet
Repeal of Test and Corporation Acts; Nonconformists admitted
to parliament
1829 Thomas Carlyle, "Signs of the Times"
Alfred Tennyson and Charles Tennyson, Poems by Two Brothers
Catholic Emancipation Act
Metropolitan Police Act (London)
1830 Felicia Hemans, Songs of the Affections
Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology (completed 1833)
(June) Death of George IV; accession of William IV
(September) Liverpool and Manchester Railway
(November) Grey administration
1831 Arthur Henry Hallam, "On Some Characteristics of Modern
Poetry"
Ebenezer Elliott, Corn-Law Rhymes
Tennyson, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical
(March) Lord John Russell introduces First Reform Bill into