1804 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1804.
Events
- March 17 â The first performance of Friedrich Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell takes place at Weimar under the direction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.[1]
- April 4 â Samuel Taylor Coleridge sets sail on The Speedwell for the Mediterranean. In Malta, he obtains employment as Acting Public Secretary at Attard.[2]
- April 15 â John Keats' father, a stable worker, dies of a fractured skull, after falling from his horse while returning from visiting John at school.[3]
- unknown dates
- James Mill's pamphlet critical of the corn trade, An Essay on the Impolicy of a Bounty on the Exportation of Grain, is published.[4]
- William Wordsworth writes his best-known poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", describing a scene he witnessed two years earlier.[5][6]
- German Gerhard Bonnier begins a publishing business in Copenhagen (Denmark) by issuing Underfulde og sandfærdige kriminalhistorier, origin of the Swedish Bonnier Group.[7]
New books
Fiction
- Mir Amman â Bagh o Buhar, a Translation into the Hindoostanee Tongue of the Celebrated Persian Tale "Qissui Chuhar Durwesh" "by Meer Ummun"
- Sophie Ristaud Cottin â Malvina
- Rachel Hunter -The Unexpected Legacy
- William Henry Ireland â The Sepulchral Summons
- Mary Meeke
- Amazement
- The Nine Days' Wonder
- Amelia Opie â Adeline Mowbray
- Åta Nanpo (å¤§ç° åç) and others â Shokusanjin ennyo meisekishu (Collection of Shokusanjin memorabilia)
- Anna Maria Porter â The Lake of Killarney
Children
- François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil
- Elmonde, ou la Fille de l'hospice (Edmonde, the charity girl)
- Jules, ou le Toit paternel (Jules, or Under his father's roof)
- Maria Edgeworth â Popular Tales
- Eliza Fenwick â Mary and Her Cat
- Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor â Original Poems for Infant Minds by several young persons, Vol. 1
Drama
- Richard Cumberland â The Sailor's Daughter
- Thomas Dibdin
- Francis Ludlow Holt â The Land We Live In
- Frederick Reynolds â The Blind Bargain
- Friedrich von Schiller â Wilhelm Tell
- Friedrich Hölderlin â translations of the dramas of Sophocles (published)
Poetry
- William Blake â Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
- William Lisle Bowles â The Spirit of Discovery
- Kirsha Danilov â The Ancient Russian Poems
Non-fiction
- Thomas Brown â Inquiry into the Relation of Cause and Effect
- John Wilson Croker â Familiar Epistles to J. F. Jones, Esquire, on the State of the Irish Stage
- Jakob Friedrich Fries â System der Philosophie als evidente Wissenschaft
- Jacques Labillardière â Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen
- James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale â Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth
Births
- July 1 â George Sand (Lucile Aurore Dupin), French novelist and memoirist (died 1876)
- July 4 â Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist (died 1864)
- August 8 â Countess Dash, French writer (died 1872)
- September 8 â Eduard Mörike, German poet (died 1875)
- November 6 â Benjamin Hall Kennedy, English classicist (died 1880)
- December 10 â Eugène Sue, French novelist (died 1857)
- December 21 â Benjamin Disraeli, English novelist and prime minister (died 1881)
Deaths
- January 4 â Charlotte Lennox, English novelist and playwright (born c. 1730)
- January 11 â James Tytler, Scottish American editor of Encyclopædia Britannica (born 1745)
- February 6 â Joseph Priestley, English natural philosopher and theologian (born 1733)
- February 12 â Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (born 1724)
- February 19 â Philip Yorke, Welsh antiquary and genealogist (born 1743)
- April 3 â JÄdrzej Kitowicz, Polish historian and diarist (born c. 1727)
- April 27 â Jonathan Boucher, English philologist (born 1738)
- May 3 â Celestyn Czaplic, Polish poet and politician (born 1723)
- July 16 â Jean-Louis de Lolme, Swiss political theorist (born 1741)
- August 9 â Robert Potter, English translator, poet and cleric (born 1721)
- August 13 â Anica BoÅ¡koviÄ, Ragusan writer (born 1714)
- October 30 â Samuel Ayscough, English librarian and indexer (born 1745)[8]
- November 5 â Betje Wolff, Dutch novelist (born 1738)
- November 23 â Richard Graves, English poet and novelist (born 1715)
- December 9 â Wilhelm Abraham Teller, German theologian (born 1734)
- December â John Boydell, English Shakespeare illustrator and engraver (born 1720)