1818 in literature

1818 in literature

The year 1818 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* Lord Byron begins writing "Don Juan".
* Series of lectures on poetry, drama, philosophy - Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

New books

*Jane Austen - "Persuasion"
*Thomas Bowdler - "Family Shakespeare"
*Selina Davenport - "An Angel's Form and a Devil's Heart"
*Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier - "Marriage"
*Franz Grillparzer - "Sappho"
*Ann Hatton - "Secrets in Every Mansion"
*Mary Meeke - "The Veiled Protectress"
*Thomas Love Peacock - "Nightmare Abbey"
*Anna Maria Porter - ""
*Sir Walter Scott - "The Heart of Midlothian"
*Mary Shelley - "Frankenstein"
*Louisa Stanhope
**"The Bandit's Bride"
**"The Nun of Santa Maria di Tindaro"
*Elizabeth Thomas - "Woman, or Minor Maxims; a Sketch"

New drama

*Franz Grillparzer - "Sapho"

Poetry

*Kristijonas Donelaitis - "The Seasons"
*John Keats - "Endymion"
*Percy Bysshe Shelley - "Ozymandias"

Non-fiction

*Josef Dobrovsky - "History of the Czech Language"
*Henry Hallam - "The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages"
*William Hazlitt - "Lectures on the English Poets"
*Charles Mills -"History of Mohammedanism"
*Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy - "Dictionnaire Infernal"

Births

* July 30 - Emily Brontë (+ 1848)
* November 9 - Ivan Turgenev (+ 1883)

Deaths

*January 11 - Johann David Wyss, author
*May 14 - Matthew Gregory Lewis, novelist and dramatist
*"date unknown"
**Malcolm Laing, historian

Awards

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