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Overview of the events of 1819 in literature
Overview of the events of 1819 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1819 .
Events January 30 – Romney Literary Society is established as the Polemic Society of Romney, West Virginia .April – John Keats begins his "Great Year" or "Living Year", during which he is at his most productive, having given up work at Guy's Hospital and moved into a new house, Wentworth Place, on Hampstead Heath on the edge of London. On April 3, Charles Wentworth Dilke lets his house, next door to Keats, to Mrs Brawne, whose daughter Fanny would become the love of Keats's life. Between April 21 and the end of May Keats writes La Belle Dame sans Merci his major odes : Ode to Psyche Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode to a Nightingale Ode on Indolence Ode on Melancholy Lamia To Autumn Winchester ;[1] Keats' home during 1819 April 1 – In London The New Monthly Magazine John Polidori 's Gothic fiction The Vampyre vampire literature in English, attributing it to Lord Byron (who partly inspired it). It is first published in book form later in the year.June 23 – Washington Irving begins publishing The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Rip Van Winkle " and a later one including "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " — simultaneously in New York and London (where Irving is living at this time).August 16 – The Peterloo Massacre takes place in England, inspiring Percy Bysshe Shelley , in Italy, who, like Keats, has one of his most productive years. After hearing the news on September 5 he writes The Masque of Anarchy 1832 , after his death), also writing the political sonnet England in 1819 Ode to the West Wind The Cenci : A Tragedy, in Five ActsJulian and Maddalo Posthumous Poems of 1824) and beginning his prose work A Philosophical View of Reform September 20 – The Carlsbad Decrees are issued throughout the German Confederation , suppressing liberal and nationalist views and censoring the press.October – In Britain, Richard Carlile is convicted of blasphemy and sent to prison for publishing The Age of Reason Thomas Paine .
Joseph Perl 's epistolary novel Megalleh Temirim ("Revealer of Secrets"), written under the name "Obadiah ben Pethahiah" and published in Vienna , is the first novel in the Hebrew language .The publisher Collins is founded as a printer of religious literature in Glasgow by William Collins .
W. & R. Chambers , established by brothers William Chambers of Glenormiston and Robert Chambers in Edinburgh , begin publishing.New books Fiction Children Drama Poetry Non-fiction Births January 1 – Arthur Hugh Clough , English poet (died 1861 )January 21 – Edward Capern , English postman poet (died 1894 )January 22 – Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle , Italian writer and art critic (died 1897 )February 22 – James Russell Lowell , American poet (died 1891 )April 23 – Bernard Quaritch , German-born English philologist and bookseller (died 1899 )May 27 – Julia Ward Howe , American poet and abolitionist (died 1910 )May 31 – Walt Whitman , American poet (died 1892 )June 12 – Charles Kingsley , English novelist and cleric (died 1875 )July 4 – Marie Sophie Schwartz , Swedish novelist (died 1894 )July 11 – Susan Warner (pseudonym Elizabeth Weatherell), American religious and children's writer (died 1885 )July 24 – Josiah Gilbert Holland , American novelist and poet (died 1881 )August 1 – Herman Melville , American novelist (died 1891 )November 22 – George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), English novelist, poet and journalist (died 1880 )December 26 – E. D. E. N. Southworth , American writer (died 1899 )December 30 – Theodor Fontane , German novelist (died 1898 )Unknown dates
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