1804 in literature
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The year 1804 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
- John KeatsJohn KeatsJohn Keats was an English Romantic poet. Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the Romantic movement, despite the fact that his work had been in publication for only four years before his death.Although his poems were not...
' father dies from a fractured skull after falling from his horse. - Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla...
re-locates to MaltaMaltaMalta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...
. - James MillJames MillJames Mill was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher. He was a founder of classical economics, together with David Ricardo, and the father of influential philosopher of classical liberalism, John Stuart Mill.-Life:Mill was born at Northwater Bridge, in the parish of...
writes a pamphlet about the corn trade.
New books
- Francis CliffordFrancis CliffordFrancis Clifford may refer to:*Francis Clifford , the pen name of Arthur Leonard Bell Thompson, crime fiction author*Francis Clifford, 4th Earl of Cumberland ,...
- The Ruins of Tivoli - Sophie Ristaud CottinSophie Ristaud CottinSophie Cottin was a French writer whose novels were popular in the 19th century, and were translated into several different languages.-Biography:...
- Malvina - Maria EdgeworthMaria EdgeworthMaria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe...
- Popular Tales - Rachel HunterRachel Hunter (author)Rachel Hunter was an English novelist of the early 19th century.-Works:*Letitia, or, The Castle without a Spectre *The History of the Grubthorpe Family...
-The Unexpected Legacy - William Henry IrelandWilliam Henry IrelandWilliam Henry Ireland was an English forger of would-be Shakespearean documents and plays. He is less well-known as a poet, writer of gothic novels and histories...
- The Sepulchral Summons - Elizabeth Lefanu - The India Voyage
- Mary MeekeMary MeekeMary Meeke was a prolific author of around 30 novels published by the Minerva Press during the early 19th century, and is believed to have died in October 1816....
- Amazement
- The Nine Days' Wonder
- Henrietta Rouviere Mosse - Lussington Abbey
- Mary A. Neri - The Eve of San-Pietro
- Amelia OpieAmelia OpieAmelia Opie, née Alderson , was an English author who published numerous novels in the Romantic Period of the early 19th century, through 1828.-Life and work:...
- Adeline Mowbray - Anna Maria PorterAnna Maria PorterAnna Maria Porter , poet, novelist and sister of Jane Porter, was born in the Bailey in Durham, the posthumous child of William Porter , who had served as an army surgeon for 23 years. He is buried in St Oswald's church, Durham....
- The Lake of Killarney - Etienne Senancour - Oberman
- Sarah Wilkinson - The Knights of Calatrava
- Mary Julia Young - The Mother and Daughter
Poetry
- William BlakeWilliam BlakeWilliam Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...
- Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant AlbionJerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant AlbionJerusalem, subtitled The Emanation of the Giant Albion, was the last, longest, and greatest in scope of the prophetic books written and illustrated by the poet, artist, and engraver William Blake.... - William Lisle BowlesWilliam Lisle BowlesWilliam Lisle Bowles was an English poet and critic.-Life and career:He was born at King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, where his father was vicar. At the age of fourteen he entered Winchester College, the headmaster at the time being Dr Joseph Warton...
- The Spirit of Discovery
Non-fiction
- Thomas BrownThomas Brown (philosopher)Thomas Brown FRSE was a Scottish metaphysician.He was born at Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, where his father Rev. Samuel Brown was parish clergyman. He was a wide reader and an eager student...
-Inquiry into the Relation of Cause and Effect - John Wilson CrokerJohn Wilson CrokerJohn Wilson Croker was an Irish statesman and author.He was born at Galway, the only son of John Croker, the surveyor-general of customs and excise in Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1800...
- Familiar Epistles to J. F. Jones, Esquire, on the State of the Irish Stage - Jakob Friedrich FriesJakob Friedrich FriesJakob Friedrich Fries was a German philosopher from Barby .-Life and career:...
- System der Philosophie als evidente Wissenschaft - Jacques LabillardièreJacques LabillardièreJacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière was a French naturalist noted for his descriptions of the flora of Australia. Labillardière was a member of a voyage in search of the La Pérouse expedition...
- Novae Hollandiae Plantarum SpecimenNovae Hollandiae Plantarum SpecimenNovae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen is a two volume work describing the flora of Australia. The author was the French botanist Jacques Labillardière, who visited the region in 1792 with the d'Entrecasteaux expedition... - James Maitland, 8th Earl of LauderdaleJames Maitland, 8th Earl of LauderdaleJames Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale KT PC was Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, and a representative peer for Scotland in the House of Lords.-Early years:...
- Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth
Births
- July 1 - George SandGeorge SandAmantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant , best known by her pseudonym George Sand , was a French novelist and memoirist.-Life:...
, writer († 1876) - July 4 - Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer.Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, a judge during the Salem Witch Trials...
, writer († 1864) - September 8 - Eduard MörikeEduard MörikeEduard Friedrich Mörike was a German Romantic poet.-Biography:Mörike was born in Ludwigsburg. His father was Karl Friedrich Mörike , a district medical councilor; his mother was Charlotte Bayer...
, poet († 1875) - November 6 - Benjamin Hall KennedyBenjamin Hall KennedyBenjamin Hall Kennedy was an English scholar and schoolmaster, known for his work in the teaching of the Latin language.-Biography:...
, classical scholar († 1880) - December 10 - Eugène SueEugène SueJoseph Marie Eugène Sue was a French novelist.He was born in Paris, the son of a distinguished surgeon in Napoleon's army, and is said to have had the Empress Joséphine for godmother. Sue himself acted as surgeon both in the Spanish campaign undertaken by France in 1823 and at the Battle of Navarino...
, novelist († 1857) - December 21 - Benjamin Disraeli, writer († 1881)
Deaths
- January 4 - Charlotte LennoxCharlotte LennoxCharlotte Lennox was an English author and poet. She is most famous now as the author of The Female Quixote and for her association with Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds, and Samuel Richardson, but she had a long career and wrote poetry, prose, and drama.-Life:Charlotte Lennox was born in Gibraltar...
, English novelist & playwright - January 11 - James TytlerJames TytlerJames Tytler was a Scottish apothecary and the editor of the second edition of Encyclopædia Britannica. Tytler became the first person in Britain to steer a hot air balloon ....
, editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica - February 6 - Joseph PriestleyJoseph PriestleyJoseph Priestley, FRS was an 18th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works...
, English natural philosopher and theologian (born 17331733 in literatureThe year 1733 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Antoine François Prévost arrives in London, where he will edit Le Pour et centre....
) - February 12 - Immanuel KantImmanuel KantImmanuel Kant was a German philosopher from Königsberg , researching, lecturing and writing on philosophy and anthropology at the end of the 18th Century Enlightenment....
- April 3 - Jędrzej KitowiczJedrzej KitowiczJędrzej Kitowicz was a Polish historian and diarist.According to Roman Pollak, a historian of Polish literature, Kitowicz was born into a bourgeois family, and was later employed in the service of wealthy priests. He was a rotmistrz of the Confederation of Bar in Wielkopolska...
, historian and diarist - April 27 - Jonathan BoucherJonathan BoucherJonathan Boucher was an English clergyman, teacher and philologist.-Early career:Boucher was born in Blencogo, near Wigton, Cumberland, and educated at the Wigton grammar school. After training in Workington, Jonathan became a teacher at St Bees School and in 1759 went to Virginia, where he became...
, philologist - May 3 - Celestyn CzaplicCelestyn CzaplicCelestyn Czaplic of the Kierdeja Coat of Arms was a Polish-Lithuanian szlachcic, politician, writer and a poet. Remembered for his humorous poetry and impeccable moral character, he was a deputy to numerous Sejms of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and a marshal of the Sejm of 1766...
, Polish poet and politician - November 5 - Betje WolffBetje WolffElizabeth Wolff-Bekker was a Dutch writer.On 18 November 1759 she married the 52-year-old clergyman Adriaan Wolff. In 1763 she published her first collection Bespiegelingen over het genoegen...
, novelist - November 23 - Richard GravesRichard GravesRichard Graves was an English minister, poet, and novelist.Born at Mickleton Manor, Mickleton, Gloucestershire, to Richard Graves, gentleman, and his wife, Elizabeth, Graves was a student at Abingdon School and Pembroke College, Oxford...
, poet and novelist - December 9 - Wilhelm Abraham TellerWilhelm Abraham TellerWilhelm Abraham Teller was a German Protestant theologian who championed a rational approach to Christianity.-Biography:...
, theologian - December - John BoydellJohn BoydellJohn Boydell was an 18th-century British publisher noted for his reproductions of engravings. He helped alter the trade imbalance between Britain and France in engravings and initiated a British tradition in the art form...
, publisher - date unknown
- Samuel AyscoughSamuel AyscoughSamuel Ayscough was a librarian and indexer, known as 'The Prince of Indexers'.Ayscough was a cataloguer in the British Museum in the late 18th century, and spent two years working on a catalogue of the manuscript collection...
, librarian and indexer - Jean-Louis de LolmeJean-Louis de LolmeJean-Louis de Lolme was a Swiss and English political theorist, born in the then semi-independent city of Geneva. As an adult he moved to England, and became a British subject....
, political theorist
- Samuel Ayscough