- 1823 in literature
The year 1823 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
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Clement Clarke Moore 's poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas " introduces the character named "Santa Claus ".
* The discovery of the First Quarto edition of1603 ofWilliam Shakespeare 's "Hamlet " (a so-called "bad quarto ") causes great excitement within the scholarly community.
*Thomas De Quincey 's classic essay "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth " appears in the October issue ofThe London Magazine .New books
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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 "
*SirWalter Scott - "Quentin Durward "
*Mary Shelley - "Valperga"
*John Wilson - "The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay"New drama
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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 ")Poetry
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Alphonse de Lamartine - "Nouvelles méditations poétiques"
*Percy Bysshe Shelley - "Posthumous Poems "Non-fiction
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John Franklin - "Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea "
*Louis Thiers - "Histoire de la Révolution française"Births
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January 1 -Sándor Petőfi , poet (d. 1849)
*February 27 -Ernest Renan , French philosopher and writer (d.1892 )
*March 20 -Ned Buntline , publisher, writer, (d.1886 )
*August 13 -Goldwin Smith , historian and journalist (d.1910 )Deaths
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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)
*November 9 -Vasily Kapnist , poet and dramatist (b.1758 )Awards
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