1806 in literature

none April 2013 1806 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1806. Events thumb|Sculpture of Mephistopheles bewitching the students in the scene "Auerbachs Keller" from Goethe's Faust, at the entrance of what is today the restaurant Auerbachs Keller in Leipzig July – Following publication of Irish-born poet Thomas Moore's Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems, Francis Jeffrey denounces it in this month's Edinburgh Review as "licentious". Moore challenges Jeffrey to a duel in London but their confrontation is interrupted by officials and they become friends.Introduction Clifford Brendan Political and Historical Writings on Irish and British Affairs by Thomas Moore Belfast Athol Books 1993 14 November 23 – Sir Roger Newdigate dies, leaving a bequest that funds the foundation of the Newdigate Prize for English Poetry at the University of Oxford. The first winner is John Wilson ("Christopher North").Michael Felix Suarez H. R. Woudhuysen The Oxford companion to the book https://books.google.com/books?id=URBIAQAAIAAJ 8 February 2010 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-860653-6 964 December 29 – Thomas John Dibdin's pantomime Harlequin and Mother Goose; or, The Golden Egg opens at the Covent Garden Theatre in London, starring Joseph Grimaldi. It runs for 111 performances. unknown dates Noah Webster publishes his first English dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, recording distinct American spellings. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe completes a preliminary version of his Faust. Nólsoyar Páll completes his anti-Danish Fuglakvæði (Ballad of the Birds), one of the first significant works in the Faroese language. The Ballad is a 229-stanza work in which birds of prey symbolise the Danish authorities, and the poet himself warns the smaller birds in the guise of an oystercatcher, which was later chosen to be the national bird of the Faroe Islands.Jakobsen, p. 309.Wylie, p. 213, note 3. The ballad said in poetic form what could not have been said in plain speech; it sold many copies.Krenn, pp. 78, 79.West, pp. 58–59. New books Fiction Harriet Butler – Vensenshon Sophie Ristaud Cottin – Elisabeth, ou les Exilés de Sibérie Catherine Cuthbertson – Santo Sebastiano Charlotte Dacre – Zofloya Maria Edgeworth – Leonora Rachel Hunter – Lady Maclairn, the Victim of Villany Francis Lathom – The Mysterious Freebooter Matthew Gregory Lewis – Feudal Tyrants Sydney Owenson – The Wild Irish Girl Louisa Stanhope – Montbrasil Abbey Thomas Skinner Surr – Winter in London Children and young people Elizabeth Dawbarn – Young Person's Assistant in Reading the Old Testament Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor – Rhymes for the Nurserychildren's literature - Historical sketches of the major literatures https://www.britannica.com/art/childrens-literature/Historical-sketches-of-the-major-literatures#ref505594 Encyclopedia Britannica 3 January 2017 Drama John Till Allingham – The Romantic Lover Richard Cumberland – A Hint to Husbands Thomas Dibdin – Five Miles Off Thomas Holcroft – The Vindictive Man Heinrich von Kleist – The Broken Jug (Der zerbrochne Krug, written) George Manners – Edgar Leandro Fernández de Moratín – The Maidens' Consent (El sí de las niñas, first performed) Non-fiction J. C. Adelung – Mithridates, a History of Language and Dialects Johann Gottlieb Fichte – Bericht über die Wissenschaftslehre James Madison – An Examination of the British Doctrine which Subjects to Capture a Neutral Trade not Open in Time of Peace Maria Rundell (as A Lady) – A New System of Domestic Cookery Jane West – Letters to a Young Lady Births January 17 – William Saunders, Welsh poet and printer (died 1851) February 1 – Jane Williams (Ysgafell), Welsh poet, folklorist and historian (died 1885) February 25 – Emma Catherine Embury, American author and poet (died 1863)Burtner, Amy L. "Emma Catherine Embury (1806–1863)" in Writers of the American Renaissance: An A-to-Z Guide, Denise D. Knight, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003: 109. 0-313-32140-X March 6 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (died 1861)Sampson, Fiona (2021). Two Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Profile Books, p 33 March 26 – James Hogg, Scottish editor and publisher (died 1888) April 17 – William Gilmore Simms, American author (died 1870) May 20 – John Stuart Mill, English political economist and philosopher (died 1873) July 20 – John Sterling, Scottish essayist and poet (died 1844) July 22 – Johann Kaspar Zeuss, German historian and philologist (died 1856) August 31 – Charles Lever, Irish novelist (died 1872) November 11 – Georgiana Chatterton, English novelist and travel writer (died 1876) November 16 – Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, American education reformer and author (died 1887)Megan Marshall, The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005) unknown date – Anne Clarke, Australian theatre manager Deaths February 2 – Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne, French writer (born 1734)Restif, Nicolas Edme 23 200 February 12 – Gabriel-Henri Gaillard, French historian (born 1726) February 19 – Elizabeth Carter, English poet, writer and translator (born 1717)Elizabeth Carter - British author https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-Carter Encyclopedia Britannica 3 January 2017 February 24 – Collin d'Harleville, French dramatist (born 1755) March 3 – Heinrich Christian Boie, German poet and editor (born 1744) April 4 – Carlo Gozzi, Venetian dramatist (born 1720) May 6 – Ann Yearsley, English poet, writer and library proprietor (died 1753) October 19 – Henry Kirke White, English poet (born 1785) October 28 – Charlotte Turner Smith, English poet and novelist (born 1749) November 23 – Sir Roger Newdigate, English antiquary, politician and literary patron (born 1719) December 26 – Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, French dramatist (born 1717) References 30em Sources Jakob Jakobsen. Poul Nolsöe, lívssøga og irkingar. 12 parts. Tórshavn: Jakobsen, 1908–12. Repr. ed. Chr. Aigens, 1966. 729098332 fo Ernst Krenn. Der Föroyische Dichter Páll Nólsoy und sein Vogellied. Illinois Studies in Languages and Literature vol. 23, no. 4. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1939. 459896944 de John Frederick West, Faroe: The Emergence of a Nation, London: Hurst, 1972, 978-0-8397-2063-8 Jonathan Wylie, The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History, Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1987, 978-0-8131-1578-8 External links 1806 Books at Goodreads