1798 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 Awards

[edit] Events

• The Académie française publishes a new edition of its dictionary.

[edit] New books

• Alcuin: a Dialogue - Charles Brockden Brown
• Lyrical Ballads - published anonymously by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
• Wieland - Charles Brockden Brown

[edit] New drama

• Wallensteins Lager - Friedrich von Schiller

[edit] Births

• January 5 - David Macbeth Moir, poet and humorist
• February 17 - Auguste Comte
• March 30 - Luise Hensel
• June 29 - Count Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet

[edit] Deaths

• June 4 - Giacomo Casanova
• June 20 - Jeremy Belknap, historian of New Hampshire
• December 16 - Thomas Pennant, traveller

[edit] Awards