1823 in literature

1823 in literature

The year 1823 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

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.
* Thomas De Quincey's classic essay "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth" appears in the October issue of The London Magazine.

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"

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")

Poetry

*Alphonse de Lamartine - "Nouvelles méditations poétiques"
*Percy Bysshe Shelley - "Posthumous Poems"

Non-fiction

*John Franklin - "Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea"
*Louis Thiers - "Histoire de la Révolution française"

Births

*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

*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)

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