1793 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards

[edit] Events

• William Wordsworth tours Wales and western England, writing some of his best-known poems.

[edit] New books

• Charles Brockden Brown - Arthur Mervyn
• Charlotte Turner Smith
  • The Old Manor House
  • The Emigrants
• Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke - Abällino, der grosse Bandit

[edit] New drama

• Étienne Aignan - La mort de Louis XVI

[edit] Poetry

• William Blake - Songs of Experience

[edit] Non-fiction

• William Frend -Peace and Union Recommended to the Associated Bodies of Republicans and Anti-Republicans
• Jane West - The Advantages of Education

[edit] Births

• April 4 - Casimir Delavigne, poet
• June 1 - Henry Francis Lyte, hymn-writer
• June 28 - Georg Friedrich Schömann, classicist
• July 12 - John Clare
• September 25 - Felicia Hemans
• December 15 - Henry Charles Carey, economist
• December 28 - Karl Friedrich Neumann

[edit] Deaths

• January 4 - Bengt Lidner, poet
• February 6 - Carlo Goldoni
• April 2 - Colin Macfarquhar, co-founder of Encyclopædia Britannica
• April 29 - John Michell, philosopher
• May 20 - Charles Bonnet, philosopher
• June 26 - Gilbert White
• July 4 - Antoine-Marin Lemierre, dramatist
• November 3 - Olympe de Gouges, dramatist
• November 17 - Louis Pierre Manuel

[edit] Awards