- 1804 in literature
The year 1804 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
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John Keats ' father dies from a fractured skull after falling from his horse.
*Samuel Taylor Coleridge re-locates toMalta .
*James Mill writes a pamphlet about the corn trade.New books
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Francis Clifford - "The Ruins of Tivoli "
*Sophie Ristaud Cottin - "Malvina"
*Maria Edgeworth - "Popular Tales "
*Rachel Hunter -"The Unexpected Legacy "
*William Henry Ireland - "The Sepulchral Summons "
*Elizabeth Lefanu - "The India Voyage "
*Mary Meeke
**"Amazement"
**"The Nine Days' Wonder "
*Henrietta Rouviere Mosse - "Lussington Abbey "
*Mary A. Neri - "The Eve of San-Pietro "
*Amelia Opie - "Adeline Mowbray"
*Anna Maria Porter - "The Lake of Killarney "
*Etienne Senancour - "Oberman "
*Sarah Wilkinson - "The Knights of Calatrava "
*Mary Julia Young - "The Mother and Daughter "New drama
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Friedrich von Schiller - "Wilhelm Tell"Poetry
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William Blake - ""
*William Lisle Bowles - "The Spirit of Discovery"Non-fiction
*Thomas Brown -"Inquiry into the Relation of Cause and Effect"
*John Wilson Croker - "Familiar Epistles to J. F. Jones, Esquire, on the State of the Irish Stage"
*Jakob Friedrich Fries - "System der Philosophie als evidente Wissenschaft"
*James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale - "Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth"Births
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July 1 -George Sand , writer (†1876 )
*July 4 -Nathaniel Hawthorne , writer (†1864 )
*September 8 -Eduard Mörike , poet († 1875)
*November 6 -Benjamin Hall Kennedy , classical scholar (†1880 )
*December 10 - Eugène Sue, novelist (†1857 )
*December 21 -Benjamin Disraeli , writer (†1881 )Deaths
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January 4 -Charlotte Lennox , English novelist & playwright
*January 11 -James Tytler , editor of "Encyclopaedia Britannica"
*February 6 -Joseph Priestley , English natural philosopher and theologian (born 1733)
*February 12 -Immanuel Kant
*April 3 -Jędrzej Kitowicz , historian and diarist
*April 27 -Jonathan Boucher , philologist
*November 5 -Betje Wolff , novelist
*November 23 -Richard Graves , poet and novelist
*December 9 -Wilhelm Abraham Teller , theologian
*December -John Boydell , publisher
*"date unknown"
**Samuel Ayscough , librarian and indexer
**Celestyn Czaplic , Polish poet
**Jean-Louis de Lolme , political theoristAwards
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