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Overview of the events of 1823 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1823 .
Events
February 7 – The
Bannatyne Club is inaugurated by Sir
Walter Scott and others as a
text publication society to print by subscription rare texts on the history, literature and traditions of
Scotland .
October –
Thomas De Quincey 's classic essay "
On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth " appears in this month's issue of
The London Magazine .
May 23 – Russian writer
Alexander Pushkin begins work on his verse novel
Eugene Onegin .
[1]
December –
Samuel Taylor Coleridge , suffering from opium addiction, moves to No. 3, The Grove, Highgate, a house owned by Dr
James Gillman .
[2]
December 15 –
John Neal sails for England where he became the first American author published in British literary journals.
[3]
December 23 –
Clement Clarke Moore 's poem,
A Visit from St. Nicholas is published anonymously in the Troy, New York, Sentinel , and introduces the eponym "
Santa Claus ".
Unknown dates
Discovery of the 1603 First
Quarto edition of William Shakespeare's
Hamlet (a so-called "
bad quarto "), by
Sir Henry Bunbury , causes scholarly excitement.
[4]
London actor
Edmund Kean reinstates in performance the original, tragic ending of Shakespeare's play
King Lear , not generally used since 1681, although it is not well received.
[5]
The London publisher C. Baldwyn brings out the first English translation of
Grimms' Fairy Tales as German Popular Stories. Translated from the Kinder und Haus Märchen collected by MM. Grimm from Oral Tradition . The anonymous translations were made by two lawyers,
Edgar Taylor and
David Jardine , and the illustrations by
George Cruikshank , who is beginning to focus on this medium.
[6]
New books
Fiction
Short stories
Children and young people
Mrs Markham (Elizabeth Penrose) – A History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the End of the Reign of George III
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 1 –
Sándor Petőfi , Hungarian poet and revolutionary (died
1849 )
February 28 –
Ernest Renan , French philosopher and writer (died
1892 )
March 20 –
Ned Buntline (E. Z. C. Judson), American writer and publisher
1886 )
April 6 –
Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney , American poet, author, editor, and educator (died
1908 )
[9]
April 12 –
Alexander Ostrovsky , Russian dramatist (died
1886 )
April 19 –
Anna Laetitia Waring , Welsh poet and hymnist (died
1910 )
[10]
June 1 –
Caroline Howard Jervey , American author, poet, and teacher (died
1877 )
August 2 –
Edward Augustus Freeman , English historian and politician (died
1892 )
August 13 –
Goldwin Smith , English historian and journalist (died
1910 )
September 23 –
Sara Jane Lippincott , American author, poet, correspondent, lecturer, and newspaper founder (died
1904 )
[11]
September 27 –
Augusta Harvey Worthen , American author and educator (died
1910 )
[12]
October 6 –
George Henry Boker , American poet, playwright and diplomat (died
1890 )
December 28 –
Augusta Theodosia Drane , English religious writer and biographer (died
1894 )
Deaths
February 7 –
Ann Radcliffe , English novelist (born
1764 )
[13]
February 21 –
Charles Wolfe , Irish poet (born
1791 )
April 10 –
Karl Leonhard Reinhold , Austrian philosopher (born
1757 )
April 21 –
Peter Collett , Danish judge and writer (born
1767 )
[14]
May 16 –
Ōta Nanpo , Japanese comic poet and painter (born
1749 )
June 19 –
William Combe , English writer, poet and adventurer (born
1742 )
August 19 –
Robert Bloomfield , English "ploughboy poet" (born
1766 )
August 20 –
Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus , German encyclopedia publisher and editor (born
1772 )
September 11 –
David Ricardo , English political economist (born
1772 )
November 9 –
Vasily Kapnist , Russian poet and dramatist (born
1758 )
Awards
References
^ Hasty, Olga Peters (1999). Pushkin's Tatiana . University of Wisconsin Press. p. 14.
^ McVeigh, Daniel (2005). "ESTESE and Doblado: Coleridge, Blanco White, and the Church of Rome". In Marshall, Donald G. (ed.). The Force of Tradition . Rowman & Littlefield. p. 165.
^ Daggett, Windsor (1920).
A Down-East Yankee From the District of Maine . Portland, Maine: A.J. Huston. pp. 9–11.
OCLC
1048477735 .
^ William Shakespeare (April 2001).
Hamlet . Classic Books Company. p. 13.
ISBN
978-0-7426-5285-9 .
^
Bloom, Harold (2008). Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages: King Lear . Infobase Publishing. p. 53.
^ Chapelle, Niamh (2001).
"The Translator's Tale" (PDF) . p. 72. Retrieved 2013-11-22 .
^ James Fenimore Cooper (1852).
The Pioneers: Or, the Sources of the Susquehanna . Stringer and Townsend. pp.
8 .
^ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal . Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 145.
ISBN
080-5-7723-08 .
^ Tenney, Charles R.; Lewis, Leo Rich (1898).
Church Harmonies New and Old: A Book of Spiritual Song for Christian Worshippers (Public domain ed.). Universalist Publishing House. pp.
393 –.
^ Scott, Rosemary (2004).
"Waring, Anna Letitia (1823–1910)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press. Retrieved 26 April 2010 .
^ Hill, Thomas Edie (1891).
Hill's Album of Biography and Art: Containing Portraits and Pen-sketches of Many Persons who Have Been and are Prominent as Religionists, Military Heroes, Inventors, Financiers, Scientists, Explorers, Writers, Physicians, Actors, Lawyers, Musicians, Artists, Poets, Sovereigns, Humorists, Orators and Statesmen, Together with Chapters Relating to History, Science, and Important Work in which Prominent People Have Been Engaged at Various Periods of Time (Public domain ed.). Danks. p. 270.
^ Stone, Herbert Stuart (1893).
First Editions of American Authors: A Manual for Book-lovers (Public domain ed.). Stone & Kimball. pp.
76 –.
^ Miles, Robert (1995). Ann Radcliffe : the great enchantress . Manchester New York: Manchester University Press. p. 25.
ISBN
9780719038297 .
^ Alf Collett (1883).
En gammel Christiania-slægt . A. Cammermeyer. p. 340.
^
The Annual Register 1823.