1823 in literature
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The year 1823 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Clement Clarke Moore's poem, A Visit from St. Nicholas introduces the character named "Santa Claus".
- The discovery of the First Quarto edition of 1603 of William Shakespeare's Hamlet (a so-called "bad quarto") causes great excitement within the scholarly community.
[edit] New books
- James Fenimore Cooper - The Pioneers
- Claire de Duras - Ourika
- John Galt - The Entail
- Thomas Gaspey - Monks of Leadenhead
- Sarah Green - The Nieces
- Jane Harvey - Mountalyth
- William Hazlitt - Liber Amoris
- Grace Kennedy – Father Clement
- Caroline Lamb - Ada Reis
- Mary Meeke - What Shall Be, Shall Be
- John Neal – Logan
- Quintin Poyney - The Wizard Priest and the Witch
- Sir Walter Scott - Quentin Durward
- Mary Shelley - Valperga
- John Wilson - The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay
[edit] New drama
- Eugène Scribe - Le Menteur Veridique
- Eugène Scribe - The Heiress (L'Héritière) for the Théâtre du Gymnase
- Franz Grillparzer - The Fortune and Fall of King Ottokar (König Ottokars Glück und Ende)
[edit] Poetry
- Alphonse de Lamartine - Nouvelles méditations poétiques
- Percy Bysshe Shelley - Posthumous Poems
[edit] Non-fiction
- John Franklin - Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea
- Louis Thiers - Histoire de la Révolution française
[edit] Births
- January 1 - Sándor Petőfi, poet (m. 1849)
- March 20 - Ned Buntline, publisher, writer, (+ 1886)
- August 13 - Goldwin Smith, historian and journalist
[edit] Deaths
- February 7 - Ann Radcliffe, novelist (born 1764)
- February 21 - Charles Wolfe, poet (born 1791)
- April 10 - Karl Leonhard Reinhold, philosopher (born 1757)
- August 19 - Robert Bloomfield, poet (born 1766)
- August 20 - Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, encyclopedia publisher and editor (born 1772)
- September 11 - David Ricardo, political economist (born 1772)
