1818 in literature
Overview of the events of 1818 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1818 .
Events
January 1 – Mary Shelley 's novel Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus [ 1] Walter Scott .[ 2] January 8 – Lord Byron , in Venice, sends the final part of Childe Harold [ 3] January 11 – Percy Bysshe Shelley 's poem "Ozymandias " appears in Leigh Hunt 's weekly The Examiner Horace Smith 's contribution to the same informal sonnet -writing competition, "On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below" is published on February 1 under his initials.March 12 – Percy Bysshe Shelley , his wife Mary and her stepsister Claire Clairmont leave England for Italy, intending to take Claire's illegitimate child Alba to her father, Lord Byron .[ 4] April 11 – John Keats and Samuel Taylor Coleridge take a walk on Hampstead Heath . In a letter to his brother George, Keats writes that they talked of "a thousand things... nightingales, poetry, poetical sensation, metaphysics."[ 5] May 11 – The Old Vic is founded as the Royal Coburg Theatre in South London by James King, Daniel Dunn and John Thomas Serres .June – Last issue of The Portico: A Repository of Science & Literature John Neal as editor.[ 6]
June–August – Keats with his friend Charles Armitage Brown makes a walking tour of Scotland , Ireland and the English Lake District . On July 11 while in Scotland he visits Burns Cottage , the birthplace of Robert Burns (1759–1796). Before Keats arrives, he writes to a friend "one of the pleasantest means of annulling self is approaching such a shrine as the cottage of Burns — we need not think of his misery — that is all gone — bad luck to it — I shall look upon it all with unmixed pleasure."[ 7] [ 8] Ben Nevis , on which he writes a sonnet.[ 9]
July
July 18 – Walter Scott 's historical novel The Heart of Midlothian Tales of My Landlord , 2nd series, by "Jedediah Cleishbotham ", in four volumes. A shipload of copies is sent from John Ballantyne (publisher) in Edinburgh to London.[ 10] August 28 – The National Library of Iceland is founded as Íslands stiftisbókasafn , at the instigation of a Danish antiquarian, Carl Christian Rafn , and the Icelandic Literary Society .September 19 – Lord Byron writes to Thomas Moore that he has completed the first canto of Don Juan [ 11] November – Fanny Brawne first meets John Keats at the home of Charles Armitage Brown.[ 12]
December 17 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge delivers a series of lectures on poetry, drama and philosophy, beginning with Shakespeare's The Tempest [ 13] December – Keats is invited to move into Brown's home at Wentworth Place in Hampstead , at this time a pastoral suburb north of London, where he will write much of his most famous work.[ 14]
New books
Fiction
Children
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 14 – Zachris Topelius , Swedish-language Finnish novelist (died 1898 )February – Frederick Douglass , African-American abolitionist, author and orator (died 1895 )April 23 – James Anthony Froude , English religious controversialist and historian (died 1894 )May 5 – Karl Marx , German philosopher (died 1883 )May 25 – Jacob Burckhardt , Swiss historian (died 1897 )July 30 – Emily Brontë , English novelist and poet (died 1848 )[ 17] August 3 – Mary Bell Smith , American educator, social reformer, and writer (died 1894 )November 9 (October 28 OS ) – Ivan Turgenev , Russian novelist and playwright (died 1883 )
Deaths
Awards
References
^ a b "Icons, a portrait of England 1800–1820" . Archived from the original on 2007-10-17. Retrieved 2007-09-11 .^ Scott, Walter (March 1818). "Remarks on Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus; A Novel" . Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 613– 620. ^ Letter CCCIV. ^ Gittings, Robert ; Manton, Jo (1992). Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys 39–42 . ISBN 0-19-818594-4 ^ Motion, Andrew (1997). Keats . London: Faber. pp. 365– 66. ISBN 057117227X ^ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal . Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 111. ISBN 080-5-7723-08 ^ Costa, Robert (2009-08-04). "Keats’s House, Restored" . The Wall Street Journal Archived 2009-08-15.
^ Colvin, Sidney . John Keats .^ "200 years ago Keats climbed Ben Nevis" . Keats 200 . 2018. Retrieved 2020-04-01 .^ Sutherland, John (2014). How to be Well Read . London: Random House. p. 214. ISBN 978-1-847-94640-9 ^ Letter CCCXXII. ^ Walsh, John Evangelist (1999). Darkling, I Listen: The Last Days and Death of John Keats ISBN 0312222556 ^ Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Hamlet" . Lectures and Notes on Shakspere and Other English Poets . Shakespeare and his Critics. Archived from the original on 2014-01-13. Retrieved 2014-01-07 . ^ Costa, Robert (2009-08-04). "Keats's House, Restored" . The Wall Street Journal Archived from the original on 2009-08-08. Retrieved 2009-08-12 . ^ a b Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 249– 250. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2 ^ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal . Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 145. ISBN 080-5-7723-08 ^ "Emily Bronte | Biography, Works, & Facts" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 8 April 2019 .^ J. D. Wyss (5 March 2009). The Swiss Family Robinson ISBN 978-0-14-132530-9 ^ Christopher Reeve, "Bonhôte, Elizabeth (1744–1818)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, UK: OUP, 2004) Retrieved 24 September 2015
^ Royle, Trevor (2012). The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature ISBN 9781780574196 ^ The Gentleman's Magazine , 88 (1): p. 443.