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none 1816 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1816. Events thumb|right|upright|alt=Black ink on yellowed white paper depicting the magazine's information above and below a Greek temple-style building|Volume 1 of The Portico: A Repository of Science & Literature January – The Portico: A Repository of Science & Literature is launched in Baltimore with poetry, literary criticism and essays by John Neal and others. Harvard University Press Mott Frank Luther A History of American Magazines: 1741-1850 Cambridge, Massachusetts 1966 715774796 294 April – Lord Byron leaves England for good to tour continental Europe. Byron's wife Annabella Milbanke had left him in January 1816, taking their months-old daughter Ada with her. Their separation was made legal in a private settlement in March 1816. The scandal of the separation, the rumours about Byron's affair with his paternal half-sister Augusta Leigh, and his ever-increasing debts forced Byron to leave England in April 1816, never to return.McGann 2013. April 14 – Lord Byron's poems "A Sketch from Private Life" and "Fare Thee Well", about his separation from his wife Annabella Milbanke, are published without authority in The Champion. "Fare Thee Well"was also printed in Leigh Hunt's Examiner, on April 21, 1816, at the end of an article by L. H. entitled "Distressing Circumstances in High Life."Hunt, Leigh. "Distressing Circumstances in High Life [Byron's Separation. The Examiner, No. 434 (21 April 1816) 247-50.] May 5 – The first published poem by 20-year-old trainee surgeon John Keats, the sonnet "To Solitude", appears in The Examiner.May 05 - The Examiner publishes John Keats’ first poem https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-examiner-publishes-john-keats-first-poem This Day In History 2021-11-07 Sky History UK May 9 – Lady Caroline Lamb's anonymous novel Glenarvon is the first book published independently by Henry Colburn in London. A roman à clef, it contains an unflattering portrait of her ex-lover Lord Byron in the rakish title character of Lord Glenarvonhttp://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16597 Malcolm Paul Douglass Caroline Lamb: Glenarvon The Literary Encyclopedia 2004-10-19 2014-02-12 and provokes Purity of Heart; Or, The Ancient Costume: A Tale, in One Volume, Addressed to the Author of Glenarvon, "a virulent, polemical novel" by "An old wife of twenty years", actually clergyman's spouse Elizabeth Thomas.Coleman Deirdre Thomas, Elizabeth (1770/71–1855) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2007 July – Lord Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Polidori, who have gathered at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in a rainy Switzerland in this 'Year Without a Summer', tell each other tales. This spawns two classic Gothic narratives, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Polidori's The Vampyre (based on Byron's "Fragment of a Novel"). Byron also writes the poem Darkness. In late August Shelley and Godwin return to England, taking with them some of Byron's manuscripts for his publisher. September 16 Lord Byron's Monody on the Death of the Right Honourable R. B. Sheridan, written at the request of Douglas Kinnaird, is spoken at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London by Mrs. Maria Davison.Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm Actor William Macready makes his London debut at Covent Garden, as Orestes in The Distressed Mother, a translation of Racine's Andromaque made by Ambrose Philips. October Charles Wentworth Dilke and his friend Charles Armitage Brown take up residence at Wentworth Place in Hampstead, then on the northern edge of London. John Keats writes his sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer". November 25 – The Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia (United States) becomes the world's first to be lit by gas.Wilson Edwin Alvin Goldfarb Living Theatre: History of the Theatre 5th New York McGraw-Hill 2008 362 December – John Keats composes the poem "Sleep and Poetry" while staying at the Hampstead house of his friend Leigh Hunt, who introduces him to Shelley. December 5 – Lord Byron's The Prisoner of Chillon, and Other Poems is published in London. John Murray, his publisher, is able to sell 7,000 copies of this and of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (published November 18) to booksellers at a dinner this month. December 30 – Percy Bysshe Shelley marries his mistress Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in London, after the suicides on October 9 of her half-sister, Fanny Imlay (by laudanum in Swansea), and on December 10 of his pregnant estranged first wife, Harriet (by drowning in The Serpentine). unknown dates Publication in Mexico of José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi's comic picaresque novel The Mangy Parrot: The Life and Times of Periquillo Sarniento written by himself for his children (El Periquillo Sarniento) in installments, generally seen as the first novel written and published in Latin America, although government censorship prevents the final chapters from being published until the 1830s.Jefferson Rea Spell Bridging the Gap Mexico City Editorial Libros de México 1971 267Jean Franco Jean Franco An Introduction to Spanish-American Literature Cambridge University Press 1969 34 Shakespeare's Hamlet is for the first time performed at the castle of Kronborg in Helsingør (Elsinore, Denmark), where it is set.Hudson Strode Denmark is a Lovely Land https://books.google.com/books?id=FuZBAAAAYAAJ 1951 Harcourt, Brace 94 Therese Huber begins to edit Morgenblatt für gebildete Stände in Tübingen. New books Fiction Thomas Ashe – The Soldier of Fortune Sarah Burney – Tales of Fancy: The Shipwreck Benjamin Constant – Adolphe Selina Davenport – The Original of the Miniature Stéphanie Félicité, Comtesse de Genlis – Jane of France Jane Harvey – Brougham Castle Ann Hatton – Chronicles of an Illustrious House Barbara Hofland – The Maid of Moscow Leigh Hunt – The Story of Rimini Frances Margaretta Jacson (wrongly ascribed to Mary Brunton) – Rhoda Henry Gally Knight – Ilderim, a Syrian Tale Caroline Lamb – Glenarvon Alicia Le Fanu – Strathallan José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi – The Mangy Parrot Emma Parker – Self-deception David William Paynter – Godfrey Ranger Walter Scott The Antiquary The Black Dwarf Old Mortality Children François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil – Jean et Jeannette, ou les Petits aventuriers parisiens (Jean and Jeanette, or Two Little Adventurers in Paris) E. T. A. Hoffmann – Nussknacker und Mausekönig (The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, basis of ballet The Nutcracker) Drama Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Zapolya Bernhard Severin Ingemann – Reinald Underbarnet (The Miraculous Child Reinald) Charles Maturin – Bertram; or The Castle of St. Aldobrand John Tobin – The Faro Table Poetry Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III Prometheus The Siege of Corinth Samuel Taylor Coleridge – "Christabel"; "Kubla Khan: A Vision" [written 1797]; "The Pains of Sleep" John Keats – "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" Percy Bysshe Shelley Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude Mont Blanc Non-fiction Franz Bopp – Über das Conjugationssystem der Sanskritsprache in Vergleichung mit jenem der griechischen, lateinischen, persischen und germanischen Sprache (On the Conjugation System of Sanskrit in comparison with that of Greek, Latin, Persian and Germanic) Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Statesman's Manual; or, The Bible the best guide to political skill and foresight: a lay sermon John Hoyland – A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, and Present State of the Gypsies Nikolay Karamzin – History of the Russian State (История государства Российского, Istoriya gosudarstva Rossiyskogo; publication begins) George Sinclair – Hortus gramineus Woburnensis John Whittaker (printer) – Whittaker Magna Carta Births January 16 - Frances Browne, Irish poet and novelist (died 1879) January 25 – Anna Gardner, American abolitionist, teacher, reformer, author (died 1901) February 18 – Ferdinand Dugué, French poet and playwright (died 1913) March 1 – Kawatake Mokuami (河竹黙阿弥), Japanese kabuki dramatist (died 1893) April 1 – Peter Cunningham, British literary scholar and antiquarian (died 1869) April 21 – Charlotte Brontë, English novelist and poet (died 1855)Charlotte Brontë British author https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charlotte-Bronte Encyclopedia Britannica 8 April 2019 en June 2 – Grace Aguilar, English novelist (died 1847) September 16 Mary Hall Adams, American book editor and letter writer (died 1860) Theodore Martin, Scottish poet, biographer and translator (died 1909) September 20 – Fredrik August Dahlgren, Swedish dramatist and songwriter (died 1895) November 1 – Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer, German novelist, dramatist and travel writer (died 1877) November 28 – Theodosia Trollope (Theodosia Garrow), English poet and translator (died 1865) possible year, unknown date – Dimitrie Ralet, Moldavian essayist, dramatist, poet and propagandist (died 1858) Deaths February 22 – Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher (born 1723) March 3 – Johann August von Starck, German writer and theologian (born 1741 April 28 – Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher (born 1762)Anemüller, Bernhard (1875). "Abicht, Johann Heinrich". In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. Band 1. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. S. 21 (German). July 7 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and politician (born 1751)Richard Brinsley Sheridan James P. Browne Thomas Moore The Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan https://books.google.com/books?id=fxNXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR41 1873 Bickers and son 41 July 23 – Elizabeth Hamilton, Irish-born Scottish essayist, poet and novelist (born c. 1756) August 9 – Johann August Apel, German writer, jurist and musicologist (born 1771)The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians: In One Volume Macmillan 1938 60 September 9 – Eliza Fay, English letter-writer and traveller (born 1755 or 1756) October 27 – Santō Kyōden (real name Iwase Samuru), Japanese fiction writer, poet and artist (born 1761) November 16 – Pierre-Louis Ginguené, French author (born 1748)Ginguené, Pierre Louis 12 28 References 30em Sources McGann Jerome Jerome McGann 2013 2004 Byron, George Gordon Noel (1788–1824) 4279 External links 1816 Books at Goodreads