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Date Poetry volumes Other literary and artistic events Contexts 1827 John Keble, Christian Year Robert Pollok, The Course of Time Alfred Tennyson, Poems by Two Brothers John Clare, The Shepherd's Calendar L. E. L. , The Golden Violet First Reform Bill introduced to Parliament and rejected by House of Lords Riots in Bristol, Derby and Nottingham 1828 Felicia Hemans, The Records of Woman First publication of The Keepsake , instituting vogue for annuals Thomas Arnold appointed headmaster, Rugby 1829 L. E. L., The Ventian Bracelet Ebenezer Elliott, The Village Patriarch Catholic Emancipation Metropolitan Police Act 1830 Tennyson, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical Hemans, Songs of the Affections Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology Railways begin George III dies; William IV becomes king 1831 Elliott, Corn Law Rhymes Arthur Hallam, ‘On Some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry’ Discovery of chloroform Discovery of electromagnetic current First cholera epidemic 1832 Tennyson, Poems (dated 1833) Penny Magazine First Reform Bill Harriet Martineau, Illustrations of Political Economy (1832–4) Babbage's Difference Engine No. 1 constructed 1833 Elizabeth Barrett, Prometheus Bound Robert Browning, Pauline Start of Oxford Movement and the Tracts for the Times (1833–41) Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus John Stuart Mill, ‘What is Poetry’ ... log in or subscribe to read full text