1804 in literature

1804 in literature

The year 1804 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

*John Keats' father dies from a fractured skull after falling from his horse.
*Samuel Taylor Coleridge re-locates to Malta.
*James Mill writes a pamphlet about the corn trade.

New books

*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

*Friedrich von Schiller - "Wilhelm Tell"

Poetry

*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

*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

*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 theorist

Awards

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