1802 in literature
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The year 1802 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- 15 April - William and Dorothy Wordsworth, walking by Ullswater, see a belt of daffodils which inspire his poem, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, first written two years later.[1]
- 3 September - William Wordsworth's sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 written.
- 4 October - William Wordsworth marries Mary Hutchinson.
- 13 November - The first play in English to be explicitly called a melodrama ("melodrame") is performed in London, Thomas Holcroft's Gothic A Tale of Mystery (an unacknowledged translation of de Pixerécourt's Cœlina, ou, l'enfant du mystère) at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.[2]
- 15 November - Washington Irving makes his first appearance in print at age nineteen, submitting observational letters to the New York Morning Chronicle under the name Jonathan Oldstyle.
- Jippensha Ikku begins work on the first of the satirical novels, Shank's Mare.
[edit] New books
- François-René de Chateaubriand - René
- Elizabeth Craven - The Soldiers of Dierenstein
- Elizabeth Gunning - The Farmer's Boy
- Jane Harvey - Warkfield Castle
- Rachel Hunter - The History of the Grubthorpe Family
- Isabella Kelly - The Baron's Daughter
- Francis Lathom - Astonishment!!!
- Mary Meeke
- Theodore Melville - The White Knight
- Susannah Oakes - The Rules of the Forest
- Mary Pilkington - The Accusing Spirit
- Anne Louise Germaine de Stael -Delphine
- Sir Walter Scott - The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
- Harriet Ventum - Justina
[edit] New drama
[edit] Non-fiction
- Jeremy Bentham - Civil War and Penal Legislation
- François-René de Chateaubriand - The Genius of Christianity
- John Debrett - first edition of Debrett's Peerage
- John Home - History of the Rebellion of 1745 -
- Malcolm Laing - History of Scotland from the Union of the Crowns to the Union of the Kingdoms
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling - Bruno[disambiguation needed
] oder über das göttliche und natürliche Prinzip der Dinge - Daniel Webster - The Rights of Neutral Nations in Time of War
[edit] Births
- January 9 - Catharine Parr Traill, author (+ 1899)
- February 11 - Lydia Maria Child, author (+ 1880)
- February 26 - Victor Hugo, author (+ 1885)
- June 2 - Karl Lehrs, classical scholar
- June 12 - Harriet Martineau, British writer (+ 1876)
- July 10 - Robert Chambers, Scottish writer, publisher (+ 1871)
- July 24 - Alexandre Dumas, père, novelist (+ 1870)
- July 28 - Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet
- August 25 - Nikolaus Lenau, poet
- November 29 - Wilhelm Hauff, poet and novelist
- December 8 - Alexander Odoevsky, Russian poet, one of the Decembrists (+ 1839)
- December 23 - Sara Coleridge, author, daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (+ 1852)
[edit] Deaths
- February 26 - Alexander Geddes, theologian
- April 18 - Erasmus Darwin, poet, grandfather of Charles Darwin
- June 5 - Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti, classical scholar
- June 29 - Johann Jakob Engel
- August 10 - Franz Aepinus, philosopher
[edit] Awards
[edit] References
- ^ "Dorothy and the daffodils". Wordsworth Trust. http://www.wordsworth.org.uk/history/index.asp?pageid=302. Retrieved 2010-08-21.
- ^ "Show me the horrid tenant of thy heart". THEA. http://www.unipr.it/arpa/dipling/GT/Seminari/SEMINARIO1.html. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
