1802 in literature
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The year 1802 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
- April 15 - William and Dorothy Wordsworth, walking by Ullswater, see a belt of daffodils which inspire his poem, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, first written two years later.[1]
- April 19 - Joseph Grimaldi first presents his white-faced clown character "Joey", at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London.[2]
- Summer - Adam Oehlenschläger writes at a sitting the poem "Guldhornene", introducing Romanticism into Danish poetry.[3]
- September 3 - William Wordsworth's sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 written.
- October 4 - William Wordsworth marries Mary Hutchinson at Brompton, Scarborough.
- October 10 - The reforming quarterly The Edinburgh Review is first published.
- November 13 - The first play in English to be explicitly called a melodrama ("melodrame") is performed in London, Thomas Holcroft's Gothic A Tale of Mystery (an unacknowledged translation of de Pixerécourt's Cœlina, ou, l'enfant du mystère) at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.[4]
- November 15 - Washington Irving makes his first appearance in print at age nineteen, submitting observational letters to the New York Morning Chronicle under the name Jonathan Oldstyle.
- December 2–3 - Jane Austen accepts, then rejects, a proposal of marriage from Harris Bigg-Wither at his Hampshire home.[5]
- Henry Boyd completes the first full English translation of Dante's Divine Comedy.
- Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron publishes Oupneck'hat in Latin, the first tranlsation of the Upanishads into a Western language.
- The first part of Jippensha Ikku's picaresque novel Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige (Shank's Mare) is published in Japan.
New books
- François-René de Chateaubriand - René
- Elizabeth Craven - The Soldiers of Dierenstein
- John Gilchrist - Hindee Story Teller
- Elizabeth Gunning - The Farmer's Boy
- Jane Harvey - Warkfield Castle
- Rachel Hunter - The History of the Grubthorpe Family
- Isabella Kelly - The Baron's Daughter
- Francis Lathom - Astonishment!!!
- Mary Meeke
- Independence
- Midnight Weddings
- Theodore Melville - The White Knight
- Susannah Oakes - The Rules of the Forest
- Mary Pilkington - The Accusing Spirit
- Anne Louise Germaine de Stael - Delphine
- Harriet Ventum - Justina
- Jane West - The Infidel Father
New drama
- Charles-Guillaume Étienne - Les Deux Mères
- Heinrich Joseph von Collin - Coriolan
Poetry
- Walter Scott, ed., anonymously - The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
Non-fiction
- Jeremy Bentham - Civil War and Penal Legislation
- Jacob Boehme - Les Trois Principes de l'Essence Divine (translated into French by Louis Claude de Saint-Martin)
- François-René de Chateaubriand - The Genius of Christianity
- John Debrett - first edition of Debrett's Peerage
- John Home - History of the Rebellion of 1745
- Malcolm Laing - History of Scotland from the Union of the Crowns to the Union of the Kingdoms
- Louis Claude de Saint-Martin - Le Ministére de l'homme-esprit
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling - Bruno oder über das göttliche und natürliche Prinzip der Dinge
- Daniel Webster - The Rights of Neutral Nations in Time of War
Births
- January 9 – Catharine Parr Traill, English-Canadian memoirist and children's author (died 1899)
- February 11 – Lydia Maria Child, American abolitionist, activist, novelist, and journalist (died 1880)
- February 26 – Victor Hugo, French novelist and poet (died 1885)
- June 2 – Karl Lehrs, German classicist (died 1878)
- June 12 – Harriet Martineau, English social theorist (died 1876)
- July 10 – Robert Chambers, Scottish writer and publisher (died 1871)
- July 24 – Alexandre Dumas, père, French novelist (died 1870)
- July 28 – Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet (died 1839)
- August 25 – Nikolaus Lenau, Hungarian-born German poet (died 1850)
- November 29 – Wilhelm Hauff, German poet and novelist (died 1827)
- December 8 – Alexander Odoevsky, Russian poet (died 1839)
- December 23 – Sara Coleridge, English poet and translator (died 1852)
Deaths
- February 26 – Alexander Geddes, Scottish theologian, scholar and priest (born 1737)
- April 18 – Erasmus Darwin, English poet and natural philosopher (born 1731)
- June 5 – Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti, German classicist (born 1756)
- June 29 – Johann Jakob Engel, German teacher and writer (born 1741)
- August 10 – Franz Aepinus, German natural philosopher (born 1724)
- December 27 – Thomas Cadell, English bookseller and publisher (born 1742)
- Unknown date – John Pope, American soldier and travel writer (born 1749)
Awards
References
- ↑ "Dorothy and the daffodils". Wordsworth Trust. Retrieved 2010-08-21.
- ↑ Uglow, Jenny (1 November 2009). "The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi by Andrew McConnell". The Guardian. Retrieved 2011-01-12.
- ↑
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Edmund Gosse (1911). "Öhlenschläger, Adam Gottlob". In Chisholm, Hugh. Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. - ↑ "Show me the horrid tenant of thy heart". THEA. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
- ↑ Sutherland, John; Fender, Stephen (2011). Love, Sex, Death & Words: Surprising Tales from a Year in Literature. London: Icon. p. 457. ISBN 978-184831-247-0.