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1804 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1804.

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Events

  • March 17 – First performance of Friedrich Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell, at Weimar under the direction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
  • April – John Keats' father dies from a fractured skull, after falling from his horse while returning from visiting John at school.
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge moves to Malta.
  • James Mill publishes a pamphlet critical of the corn trade.
  • William Wordsworth writes the poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
  • German Gerhard Bonnier begins a publishing business in Copenhagen (Denmark) by issuing Underfulde og sandfærdige kriminalhistorier, origin of the Swedish Bonnier Group.

    • Fiction

  • Mir Amman – Bagh o Buhar, a Translation into the Hindoostanee Tongue of the Celebrated Persian Tale "Qissui Chuhar Durwesh" "by Meer Ummun"
  • Sophie Ristaud Cottin – Malvina
  • Rachel Hunter -The Unexpected Legacy
  • William Henry Ireland – The Sepulchral Summons
  • Elizabeth Lefanu – The India Voyage
  • Mary Meeke
  • Amazement
  • The Nine Days' Wonder
  • Henrietta Rouviere Mosse – Lussington Abbey
  • Mary A. Neri – The Eve of San-Pietro
  • Amelia Opie – Adeline Mowbray
  • Ōta Nanpo (大田 南畝) and others – Shokusanjin ennyo meisekishu (Collection of Shokusanjin memorabilia)
  • Anna Maria Porter – The Lake of Killarney
  • Etienne Senancour – Oberman
  • Sarah Wilkinson – The Knights of Calatrava
  • Mary Julia Young – The Mother and Daughter

    • 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 – Popular Tales
  • Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor – Original Poems for Infant Minds by several young persons, Vol. 1

    • Drama

  • P. Fligneau – L'Haïtien expatrié
  • Friedrich von Schiller – Wilhelm Tell
  • Friedrich Hölderlin – translations of the dramas of Sophocles (published)

    • Poetry

  • William Blake – Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
  • William Lisle Bowles – The Spirit of Discovery
  • Kirsha Danilov – The Ancient Russian Poems

    • Non-fiction

  • Thomas Brown – Inquiry into the Relation of Cause and Effect
  • John Wilson Croker – Familiar Epistles to J. F. Jones, Esquire, on the State of the Irish Stage
  • Jakob Friedrich Fries – System der Philosophie als evidente Wissenschaft
  • Jacques Labillardière – Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen
  • James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale – Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth

    • Births

  • July 1 – George Sand (Lucile Aurore Dupin), French novelist and memoirist (died 1876)
  • July 4 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist (died 1864)
  • September 8 – Eduard Mörike, German poet (died 1875)
  • November 6 – Benjamin Hall Kennedy, English classicist (died 1880)
  • December 10 – Eugène Sue, French novelist (died 1857)
  • December 21 – Benjamin Disraeli, English novelist and prime minister (died 1881)

    • Deaths

  • January 4 – Charlotte Lennox, English novelist and playwright (born c. 1730)
  • January 11 – James Tytler, Scottish American editor of Encyclopædia Britannica (born 1745)
  • February 6 – Joseph Priestley, English natural philosopher and theologian (born 1733)
  • February 12 – Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (born 1724)
  • April 3 – Jędrzej Kitowicz, Polish historian and diarist (born c. 1727)
  • April 27 – Jonathan Boucher, English philologist (born 1738)
  • May 3 – Celestyn Czaplic, Polish poet and politician (born 1723)
  • August 9 – Robert Potter, English translator, poet and cleric (born 1721)
  • August 13 – Anica Bošković, Ragusan writer (born 1714)
  • November 5 – Betje Wolff, Dutch novelist (born 1738)
  • November 23 – Richard Graves, English poet and novelist (born 1715)
  • December 9 – Wilhelm Abraham Teller, German theologian (born 1734)
  • December – John Boydell, English Shakespeare illustrator and engraver (born 1720)
  • Unknown dates
  • Samuel Ayscough, English librarian and indexer (born 1745)
  • Jean-Louis de Lolme, Swiss political theorist (born 1741)

    • References

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