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Overview of the events of 1823 in literature
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 Sentinel , and introduces the eponym "Santa Claus ".Unknown dates
Discovery of the 1603 First
London actor Edmund Kean reinstates in performance the original, tragic ending of Shakespeare's play King Lear [5]
The London publisher C. Baldwyn brings out the first English translation of Grimms' Fairy Tales 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] 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. . . ^ 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 8 . . ^ Tenney, Charles R.; Lewis, Leo Rich (1898). Church Harmonies New and Old: A Book of Spiritual Song for Christian Worshippers 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 ^ Stone, Herbert Stuart (1893). First Editions of American Authors: A Manual for Book-lovers 76 –. . ^ Alf Collett (1883). En gammel Christiania-slægt ^ The Annual Register 1823.
