Source: A Book of Days for the Literary Year. Ed. by Neal T. Jones. Thames and Hudson, 1989.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jesuit poet - "The Wreck of the Deutschland" - is born in Stratford, Essex.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley, already married to the former Harriet Westbrook, elopes to France with Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin). (Harriet's suicide in 1816 will free him to wed Mary.)
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Abraham Cowley - "that incomparable poet and virtuous man," to John Evelyn - dies in Chertsey, Surrey, at 48, and is buried in Westminster Abbey.
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