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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1804.
Events
thumb|225px|Illustration of William Tell by Friedrich Schiller. Depiction of the character William Tell; image from the Schiller Galerie; by Johann Leonhard Raab
March 17 – The first performance of Friedrich Schiller's play William Tell takes place at Weimar under the direction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.https://www.tellspiele.ch/de/Tellspiele/Friedrich-Schiller Friedrich Schillers Wilhelm Tell de Tellspiele Interlaken 27 August 2018
April 4 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge sets sail on The Speedwell for the Mediterranean. In Malta, he obtains employment as Acting Public Secretary at Attard.Barry Hough Howard Davis Lydia Davis Coleridge's Laws: A Study of Coleridge in Malta https://books.google.com/books?id=hnR7GXkZz3oC&pg=PA28 2010 Open Book Publishers 978-1-906924-12-6 28–
April 15 – Thomas Keats (John Keats' father), a stable worker, dies of a fractured skull, after falling from his horse while returning from visiting John at school.https://hcmc.uvic.ca/keats/1804-04-15.html Mapping Keats's Progress hcmc.uvic.ca 27 August 2018 2018-08-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20180827142254/https://hcmc.uvic.ca/keats/1804-04-15.html dead
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James Mill's pamphlet critical of the corn trade, An Essay on the Impolicy of a Bounty on the Exportation of Grain, is published.An essay of the impolicy of a bounty on the exportation of grain, 1804.
William Wordsworth writes his best-known poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", describing a scene he witnessed two years earlier.Thomas Carper Derek Attridge Meter and Meaning: An Introduction to Rhythm in Poetry https://books.google.com/books?id=8bdKJ7Mko-gC&pg=PA46 2003 Psychology Press 978-0-415-31174-8 46http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1800-1820 Icons, a portrait of England 1800-1820 2007-09-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20071017042835/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1800-1820 17 October 2007
German Gerhard Bonnier begins a publishing business in Copenhagen (Denmark) by issuing da Underfulde og sandfærdige kriminalhistorier, origin of the Swedish Bonnier Group.Creating Nordic Capitalism: The Development of a Competitive Periphery https://books.google.com/books?id=QJlMDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA78 16 September 2017 Palgrave Macmillan 978-1-137-07137-8 78–
New books
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
Mary Meeke
Amazement
The Nine Days' Wonder
Amelia Opie – Adeline Mowbray
Ōta Nanpo (大田 南畝) and others – ja Shokusanjin ennyo meisekishu (Collection of Shokusanjin memorabilia)
Anna Maria Porter – 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 – Popular Tales
Eliza Fenwick – Mary and Her Cat
Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor – Original Poems for Infant Minds by several young persons, Vol. 1
Drama
Richard Cumberland – The Sailor's Daughter
Thomas Dibdin
Guilty or Not Guilty
The Will for the Deed
Francis Ludlow Holt – The Land We Live In
Frederick Reynolds – The Blind Bargain
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)
August 8 – Countess Dash, French writer (died 1872)
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)
February 19 – Philip Yorke, Welsh antiquary and genealogist (born 1743)
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)
July 16 – Jean-Louis de Lolme, Swiss political theorist (born 1741)
August 9 – Robert Potter, English translator, poet and cleric (born 1721)
August 13 – Anica Bošković, Ragusan writer (born 1714)
October 30 – Samuel Ayscough, English librarian and indexer (born 1745)Frederick George Netherclift The Hand-book to Autographs: Being a Ready Guide to the Handwriting of Distinguished Men and Women of Every Nation https://books.google.com/books?id=j29BAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1 1862 J. R. Smith 1
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)
References
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External links
1804 Books at Goodreads