1823 in literature
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The year 1823 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
- October - Thomas De Quincey's classic essay On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth appears in this month's issue of The London Magazine.
- December - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, suffering from opium addiction, takes up residence at No. 3, The Grove, Highgate, a house owned by Dr James Gillman.[1]
- December 23 - Clement Clarke Moore's poem, A Visit from St. Nicholas is published in the Troy, New York, Sentinel, and introduces the character named "Santa Claus".
- date unknown
- The discovery of the First Quarto edition of 1603 of William Shakespeare's Hamlet (a so-called "bad quarto"), by Sir Henry Bunbury, causes great excitement within the scholarly community.
- Artist George Cruikshank begins to focus on book illustration, starting with the first English translation of Grimms' Fairy Tales.[2]
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
- Mary Shelley - Valperga
- John Wilson - The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay
New drama
- Aleksander Griboyedov - Woe from Wit (written)
- Mary Russell Mitford - Julian: a tragedy
- Eugène Scribe
- Le Menteur Veridique
- The Heiress (L'Héritière) for the Théâtre du Gymnase
- Franz Grillparzer - The Fortune and Fall of King Ottokar (König Ottokars Glück und Ende)
Poetry
- Thomas Campbell - The Last Man
- Alphonse de Lamartine - Nouvelles méditations poétiques
- Adam Mickiewicz - Grażyna
- Percy Bysshe Shelley - Posthumous Poems
Non-fiction
- Lorenzo Da Ponte - Memorie
- Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases - Le Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène
- John Franklin - Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea
- Ethan Smith - View of the Hebrews
- Louis Thiers - Histoire de la Révolution française
Births
- January 1 - Sándor Petőfi, poet (died 1849)
- February 27 - Ernest Renan, French philosopher and writer (died 1892)
- March 20 - Ned Buntline, publisher, writer (died 1886)
- April 12 - Alexander Ostrovsky, dramatist (died 1886)
- August 13 - Goldwin Smith, historian and journalist (died 1910)
- October 6 - George Henry Boker, poet and playwright (died 1890)
Deaths
- February 7 - Ann Radcliffe, English novelist (born 1764)
- February 21 - Charles Wolfe, Irish poet (born 1791)
- April 10 - Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (born 1757)
- May 16 - Ōta Nampo, Japanese comic poet and painter (born 1749)
- August 19 - Robert Bloomfield, English "ploughboy poet" (born 1766)
- August 20 - Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German encyclopedia publisher and editor (born 1772)
- September 11 - David Ricardo, English political economist (born 1772)
- November 9 - Vasily Kapnist, Russian poet and dramatist (born 1758)
Awards
- Chancellor's Gold Medal - Winthrop Mackworth Praed
- Newdigate Prize - T. S. Salmon[3]
References
- ↑ Daniel McVeigh, "ESTESE and Doblado: Coleridge, Blanco White, and the Church of Rome", The Force of Tradition, ed. Donald G. Marshall. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, p 165.
- ↑ "Niamh Chapelle, 2001, p.72" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-11-22.
- ↑ The Annual Register 1823
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