1804 in literature
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The year 1804 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- John Keats' father dies from a fractured skull after falling from his horse.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge re-locates to Malta.
- James Mill writes a pamphlet about the corn trade.
[edit] New books
- Francis Clifford - The Ruins of Tivoli
- Sophie Ristaud Cottin - Malvina
- Maria Edgeworth - Popular Tales
- Rachel Hunter -The Unexpected Legacy
- William Henry Ireland - The Sepulchral Summons
- Elizabeth Lefanu - The India Voyage
- Mary Meeke
- Amazement
- The Nine Days' Wonder
- Henrietta Rouviere Mosse - Lussington Abbey
- Mary A. Neri - The Eve of San-Pietro
- Amelia Opie - Adeline Mowbray
- Anna Maria Porter - The Lake of Killarney
- Etienne Senancour - Oberman
- Sarah Wilkinson - The Knights of Calatrava
- Mary Julia Young - The Mother and Daughter
[edit] New drama
[edit] Poetry
- William Blake - Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
- William Lisle Bowles - The Spirit of Discovery
[edit] Non-fiction
- Thomas Brown -Inquiry into the Relation of Cause and Effect
- John Wilson Croker - Familiar Epistles to J. F. Jones, Esquire, on the State of the Irish Stage
- Jakob Friedrich Fries - System der Philosophie als evidente Wissenschaft
- James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale - Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth
[edit] Births
- July 1 - George Sand, writer († 1876)
- July 4 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer († 1864)
- September 8 - Eduard Mörike, poet († 1875)
- November 6 - Benjamin Hall Kennedy, classical scholar († 1880)
- December 10 - Eugène Sue, novelist († 1857)
- December 21 - Benjamin Disraeli, writer († 1881)
[edit] Deaths
- January 4 - Charlotte Lennox, English novelist & playwright
- January 11 - James Tytler, editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- February 6 - Joseph Priestley, English natural philosopher and theologian (born 1733)
- February 12 - Immanuel Kant
- April 3 - Jędrzej Kitowicz, historian and diarist
- April 27 - Jonathan Boucher, philologist
- November 5 - Betje Wolff, novelist
- November 23 - Richard Graves, poet and novelist
- December 9 - Wilhelm Abraham Teller, theologian
- December - John Boydell, publisher
- date unknown
- Samuel Ayscough, librarian and indexer
- Celestyn Czaplic, Polish poet
- Jean-Louis de Lolme, political theorist
