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1821 literature poetry
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1821.
Events
May – Percy Bysshe Shelley's Queen Mab: a philosophical poem (1813) is distributed by a pirate publisher in London, leading to prosecution by the Society for the Prevention of Vice.Kim Wheatley Shelley and His Readers: Beyond Paranoid Politics https://books.google.com/books?id=lcRYKVaORW0C&pg=PA85 1999 University of Missouri Press 978-0-8262-6209-7 85
August 4 – Atkinson & Alexander publish The Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper in the United States.Grace Greenwood The Little Pilgrim https://books.google.com/books?id=q2ZPAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA100-IA4 1857 L.K. Lippincott 1
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James Ballantyne begins publishing his Novelist's Library in Edinburgh edited by Sir Walter Scott.http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/biography/ballant.html Edinburgh University Library The Ballantyne Brothers Walter Scott 2007-12-11
In the first known obscenity case in the United States, a Massachusetts court outlaws the John Cleland novel Fanny Hill (1748). The publisher, Peter Holmes, is convicted of printing a "lewd and obscene" novel.Wayne C. Bartee Alice Fleetwood Bartee Litigating Morality: American Legal Thought and Its English Roots https://books.google.com/books?id=JsO7l9fsuecC&pg=PA57 1992 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-275-94127-7 57
Sunthorn Phu is imprisoned and begins his epic poem Phra Aphai Mani.Sunthō̜n Phū Montri Umavijani Sunthorn Phu: An Anthology https://books.google.com/books?id=yUVkAAAAMAAJ 1990 Office of National Culture Commission 978-974-7903-41-6 14
New books
Fiction
thumb|Portrait of Sir Walter Scott by Thomas Lawrence. Scott's historical novel Kenilworth was published in 1821.
James Fenimore Cooper – The Spy
Pierce Egan – Life in London; Boxiana Vol. III
John Galt
Annals of the Parish
The Ayrshire Legatees
Thomas Gaspey – Calthorpe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years (Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre)
Ann Hatton – Lovers and Friends
Hannah Maria Jones – Gretna Green
John Gibson Lockhart – Valerius
Charles Nodier – Smarra
Anna Maria Porter – The Village of Mariendorpt
Jane Porter – The Scottish Chiefs
Sir Walter Scott – Kenilworth
Children
Maria Hack – Harry Beaufoy; or the Pupil of Nature
Thomas Love Peacock – Maid Marian
Drama
John Banim and Richard Lalor Sheil – Damon and Pythias
Lord Byron
Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice (published & performed)
Sardanapalus: a tragedy; The Two Foscari: a tragedy; Cain: a mystery (published together)
Alfred Bunn –Kenilworth
Barry Cornwall – Mirandola
Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval – Le Faux Bonhomme
Aleksander Fredro – Pan Geldhab (Mr. Gelhab)
Franz Grillparzer – Das goldene Vliess (The Golden Fleece trilogy)
James Haynes – Conscience
Heinrich von Kleist (died 1811) – The Prince of Homburg (Prinz Friedrich von Homburg oder die Schlacht bei Fehrbellin, first performance, in abridged version as Die Schlacht von Fehrbellin; completed 1810)
Poetry
Lord Byron – Irish Avatar
Heinrich Heine – Poems
Alessandro Manzoni – Il Cinque Maggio (May 5)
Alexander Pushkin – The Gabrieliad
Percy Bysshe Shelley – Adonaïs
Non-fiction
James Burney – An Essay, by Way of Lecture, on the Game of Whist
Owen Chase – Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship EssexThomas Farel Heffernan Stove by a Whale: Owen Chase and the Essex Wesleyan University Press 1990 pp. 120 - 134 978-0-8195-6244-9
William Cobbett – The American GardenerS. Clifford-Smith, "William Cobbett: cottager's friend", Australian Garden History, 19 (5), 2008, pp. 4–6.
George Grote – Statement of the Question of Parliamentary Reform
William Hazlitt – Table-TalkReview of Table Talk, or Original Essays by William Hazlitt The Quarterly Review October 1821 26 103–108 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000093222341;view=1up;seq=115
James Mill – Elements of Political Economy
Robert Owen – Report to the County of Lanark, of a plan for relieving public distress and removing discontent
Thomas De Quincey (anonymously) – Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (serialisation in The London Magazine)
John Roberton – Kalogynomia, or the Laws of Female Beauty
Robert Southey – Life of Cromwell
Births
February 22 – Athalia Schwartz, Danish writer, journalist and educator (died 1871)Hilden Adda Athalia Schwartz (1821–1871) http://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/1217/ live 15 August 2018 Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon da https://web.archive.org/web/20180313093021/http://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/1217/ 2018-03-13
March 15 – William Milligan, Scottish theologian (died 1893)Milligan, William James Cooper
March 19 – Richard Francis Burton, English polymath (died 1890)
March 20 – Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr.), American publisher, dime novelist and publicist (died 1886)Pond Fred E. Life and Adventures of Ned Buntline Camdus Book Shop New York 1919 https://archive.org/details/lifeadventuresof00ponduoft/
March 25 – Isabella Banks, English poet and novelist (died 1897)
April 9 – Charles Baudelaire, French poet (died 1867)Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard. Les Fleurs Du Mal. David R. Godine Publisher, 1983, p.xxv. 0-87923-462-8, 978-0-87923-462-1.
May 8 – Charlotte Maria Tucker, English children's writer (died 1893)
May 11 – Grigore Sturdza, Moldavian and Romanian adventurer, literary sponsor and philosopher (died 1901)
June 30 – William Hepworth Dixon, English historian, traveler and journal editor (died 1879)
July 21 – Vasile Alecsandri, Romanian patriot, poet, dramatist, politician and diplomat (died 1890)
October 30 – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist (died 1881)Morson, Gary Saul 7 November 2023 Fyodor Dostoyevsky Encyclopædia Britannica http://britannica.com/biography/Fyodor-Dostoyevsky 12 September 2015
November 28 – Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet, writer and critic (died 1877)
September 21 – Aurora Ljungstedt, Swedish horror writer (died 1908)
September 24 – Cyprian Norwid Polish poet (died 1883)
December 1 – Jane C. Bonar, Scottish hymnwriter (died 1884)Julian John A Dictionary of Hymnology: Setting Forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of All Ages and Nations, with Special Reference to Those Contained in the Hymn Books of English-speaking Countries and Now in Common Use .. https://books.google.com/books?id=HSxiEP6RQuYC&pg=PA162 Public domain 1892 Murray BONAR, JANE CATHARINE (nee LUNDIE) 162
December 6 – Dora Greenwell, English poet (died 1882)
December 12 – Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (died 1880)Gustave Flaubert The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857 Harvard University Press 1980 1
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Deaths
January 7 – Anne Hunter, Scottish poet and salonnière (born 1742)Hunter, Anne Bettany George Thomas George Thomas Bettany 28
January 14 – Jens Zetlitz, Norwegian poet (born 1761)
February 23 – John Keats, English poet (tuberculosis, born 1795)BBC - History - Historic Figures: John Keats (1795-1821) https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/keats_john.shtml bbc.co.uk 3 January 2017
February 26 – Joseph de Maistre, Savoyard philosopher (born 1753)
March 17 – Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes, French poet (born 1757)
April 14 – Susan Carnegie, writer and founder of the first public asylum in Scotland (born 1743)The biographical dictionary of Scottish women : from the earliest times to 2004 2006 Edinburgh University Press Elizabeth Ewan Sue Innes Sian Reynolds 978-0-7486-2660-1 Edinburgh 67–8 367680960
April 16 – Thomas Scott, English cleric and religious writer (born 1747)
May 2 – Hester Thrale (Mrs Piozzi), English diarist and arts patron (born 1741)Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie Joy Dorothy Harvey Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie Joy Harvey The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z https://books.google.com/books?id=LTSYePZvSXYC&pg=PA1026 2000 Taylor & Francis 978-0-415-92040-7 1026
May 21 – John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors), Welsh poet and satirist (born 1766)Iolo Morganwg Geraint H. Jenkins Ffion Mair Jones The Correspondence of Iolo Morganwg: 1810–1826 https://books.google.com/books?id=P-1nAAAAMAAJ 2007 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-2134-8 616
May 22 – Johann Georg Heinrich Feder, German philosopher (born 1740)
June 15 – John Ballantyne, publisher (born 1774)Ballantyne, John (1774-1821) 3
August 1 – Elizabeth Inchbald, English novelist and dramatist (born 1753)
August 24 – John William Polidori, English physician, writer (born 1795) (suicide)Viets Henry R. 1961 "By The Visitation Of God": The Death Of John William Polidori, M.D., In 1821 The British Medical Journal 2 5269 1773–1775 10.1136/bmj.2.5269.1773 20356143 14037964 1970869 0007-1447
November 17 – James Burney, English rear-admiral and naval writer (born 1750)
November – Richard Fenton, poet and author (born 1747)s-FENT-RIC-1747 Fenton, Richard 26 February 2018
Awards
Chancellor's Gold Medal and Newdigate Prize – George Howard
References
30em
External links
1821 Books at Goodreads