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Overview of the events of 1820 in literature
Overview of the events of 1820 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1820 .
Events
January 16 – Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery by "
Northamptonshire peasant poet"
John Clare is published in England by
John Taylor .
[1]
April 22 –
Walter Scott is created 1st
baronet of
Abbotsford in the
County of Roxburgh in the
Baronetage of the United Kingdom .
[2]
September – Poet
John Keats , suffering from
tuberculosis , leaves London to take up residence in the house on the
Spanish Steps in
Rome where he will die in
1821 .
November 20 – An 80-ton
sperm whale attacks the
Essex , a
whaleship from
Nantucket, Massachusetts , 2,000 miles off the western coast of
South America .
Herman Melville 's
1851 novel
Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.
unknown dates
More than 20 years after the poet's death,
Robert Chambers edits and publishes The Songs of Robert Burns .
[3]
Thomas Kendall has the first book printed in the
Māori language ,
A korao no New Zealand ; or, the New Zealander's first book; being an attempt to compose some lessons for the instruction of the natives , published in
Sydney , Australia.
[4]
The first translation of the
Old English
epic poem
Beowulf into a modern language, Danish, Bjovulfs Drape , by
N. F. S. Grundtvig , is published.
[5]
The
Cambridge Apostles , an intellectual discussion group, is established at the
University of Cambridge in England.
[6]
New books
Fiction
Children
Maria Hack
English Stories, illustrating some of the most interesting events and characters between the Accession of Alfred and the Death of John
English Stories. Second series, between the Accession of Henry the Third and the Death of Henry the Sixth
Mary Shelley –
Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot (written 1820 then lost, published 1997)
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 17 –
Anne Brontë , English novelist and poet (died
1849 )
[7]
January 30 –
Concepción Arenal , Spanish feminist writer and activist (died
1893 )
[8]
February 28 –
John Tenniel , English illustrator and cartoonist (died
1914 )
[9]
March 2 –
Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker), Dutch writer (died
1887 )
[10]
March 17 –
Jean Ingelow , English poet and novelist (died
1897 )
[11]
March 30 –
Anna Sewell , English novelist (died
1878 )
April 4 –
Mkrtich Khrimian , Armenian Catholicos, essayist and poet (died
1907 )
April 16 –
Charlotte A. Jerauld , American poet and story writer (died
1845 )
[12]
April 26 –
Alice Cary , American poet and short-story writer (died
1871 )
[13]
April 27 –
Herbert Spencer , English philosopher (died
1903 )
[14]
June 21 –
James Halliwell-Phillipps , English bibliophile (died
1889 )
August 13 – Sir
George Grove , English writer and lexicographer on music (died
1900 )
September 2 –
Lucretia Peabody Hale , American journalist and author (died
1900 )
[15]
September 17 –
Émile Augier , French dramatist (died
1889 )
[16]
October 14 –
John Harris , English poet (died
1884 )
November 23 (December 5
N.S. ) –
Afanasy Fet , Russian lyric poet, essayist and short-story writer (died
1892 )
November 28 –
Friedrich Engels , German socialist writer (died
1895 )
[17]
Deaths
February 5 –
William Drennan , Irish poet, radical and educationalist (born
1754 )
February 23 –
Alojzy Feliński , Polish poet (born
1771 )
[18]
March 20 –
Eaton Stannard Barrett , Irish satirical poet and novelist (born
1786 )
[19]
April 2 –
Thomas Brown , Scottish philosopher and poet (born
1778 )
[20]
May 1 –
Richmal Mangnall , English schoolbook writer (born
1769 )
July 16 –
William Hazlitt Sr., Irish writer, radical and Unitarian minister, father of
William Hazlitt (born
1737 )
[21]
August 23 –
Michel de Cubières , French poet, dramatist and historian (born
1752 )
September 16 –
Nguyễn Du , Vietnamese poet (born
1766 )
October 5 –
Augustin Barruel , French
Jesuit priest and writer (born
1741 )
November 8 –
Lavinia Stoddard , American poet and educationist (born
1787 )
[22]
November 12 –
William Hayley , English poet and biographer (born
1745 )
[23]
Probable –
Dionisie Eclesiarhul , Wallachian scribe, chronicler and illustrator (born c.
1740 )
References
^
[Gilchrist, Octavius] (1820). "Some Account of John Clare, an Agricultural Labourer and Poet".
The London Magazine .
^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004).
The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-860634-6 .
^ Robert Burns (1856).
The life and works of Robert Burns, ed. by R. Chambers. Libr. ed . p. 2.
^
"Thomas Kendall" , Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
^ SAJ Bradley (31 December 2008).
N.F.S. Grundtvig, A Life Recalled: An Anthology of Biographical Source-Texts . Aarhus University Press. p. 436.
ISBN
978-87-7934-007-7 .
^ A. C. Grayling; Andrew Pyle; Naomi Goulder (28 June 2006).
Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy . Bloomsbury Academic. p. 123.
ISBN
978-1-84371-141-4 .
^
"Anne Brontë | British author" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 8 April 2019 .
^
Calendar of Spanish Anniversaries . Tardy publishing Company, Incorporated. 1935.
^
Sir John Tenniel . Bradbury, Agnew & Company. 1914. p. 1863.
^ Multatuli (1982).
Max Havelaar, Or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company . University of Massachusetts Press. p. 339.
ISBN
978-0-87023-360-9 .
^ Shattock, Joanne (1993). The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers . Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 225.
ISBN
978-0-19214-176-7 .
^ Jerauld, Charlotte Ann Fillebrown; Bacon, Henry (1860).
Poetry and prose (Public domain ed.). A. Tompkins. pp.
22 –.
^ Edwin Francis Hatfield (1884).
The Poets of the Church: A Series of Biographical Sketches of Hymn-writers with Notes on Their Hymns . A. D. F. Randolph. p. 133.
^ Daniel Greenleaf Thompson (1889).
Herbert Spencer: His Life, Writings, and Philosophy . G.H. Ellis. p. 4.
^ Kuiper, Kathleen (1995). Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature . Springfield: Merriam-Webster. p. 508.
ISBN
978-0-87779-042-6 .
^ Charles Dudley Warner (1 July 2008).
A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLII (Forty-Five Volumes); Dictionary of Authors (A-J) . Cosimo, Inc. p. 29.
ISBN
978-1-60520-248-8 .
^ V. Ė Kunina (1987).
Frederick Engels: His Life and Work: Documents and Photographs . Progress. p. 18.
ISBN
978-0-7147-2582-6 .
^ Bibliografia Literatury Polskiej – Nowy Korbut (in Polish). Vol. 4: Oświecenie. Warszawa: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy. 1966. pp. 451–456.
^
The Ladies' Monthly Museum . J.W.H. Payne. 1820. p. 53.
^ Trevor Royle (11 November 1984).
Macmillan Companion to Scottish Literature . Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 43.
ISBN
978-1-349-07587-4 .
^ Wu, Duncan (2008). William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man . Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press.
^
Griswold, Rufus Wilmot (1858).
The Female Poets of America (Public domain ed.). Ardent Media.
^ Thomas Dugdale (1830).
England & Wales delineated, by T. Dugdale, assisted by W. Burnett. (Curiosities of Great Britain) . p. 461.