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none August 2013 1820 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1820. Events thumb|right|Owen Chase in later life January 16 – Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery by "Northamptonshire peasant poet" John Clare is published in England by John Taylor.[Gilchrist, Octavius] (1820). "Some Account of John Clare, an Agricultural Labourer and Poet". The London Magazine. April 22 – Walter Scott is created the 1st Scott baronet of Abbotsford in the County of Roxburgh in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm The title became extinct in 1847, on the death of Sir Walter Scott, 2nd Baronet. He was the son of the original baronet, and he died without issue of his own.Scott Walter The Letters of Sir Walter Scott: 1826-1828 1971 AMS Press 978-0-404-05650-6 21 en September – Poet John Keats, suffering from tuberculosis, leaves London to take up residence in the house on the Spanish Steps in Rome where he will die in 1821.At the suggestion of his doctors, Keats had agreed to move to Italy with his friend, the painter Joseph Severn. On 13 September, they left for Gravesend and four days later boarded the sailing brig Maria Crowther. On 1 October the ship landed at Lulworth Bay or Holworth Bay, where the two went ashore. Back on board the ship, Keats made the final revisions of "Bright Star".Rodriguez Andres https://books.google.com/books?id=0oRsm49wthkC&pg=PA221 Book of the Heart: The Poetics, Letters, and Life of John Keats Rodríguez Andrés 1993 SteinerBooks 978-0940262577 Google Books November 20 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex, a whaleship from Nantucket, Massachusetts, 2,000 miles off the western coast of South America. The whale crushed the bow, driving the vessel backwards, and then finally disengaged its head from the shattered timbers and swam off, leaving Essex quickly going down by the bow. The first mate Owen Chase and the remaining sailors retrieved the spare whaleboat while the steward, William Bond, ran below to gather the captain's sea chest and whatever navigational aids he could find. The whaleboats of George Pollard Jr. and Matthew Joy were about 2 mi km from Essex when one of the boatsteerers looked back and saw the ship falling on her beam-ends. The two boats hurriedly released their whales and rowed back to Essex.Philbrick 2001 83–84 The crew spent the next two days salvaging what supplies remained from the waterlogged wreck of the Essex. Three whaleboats were rigged with makeshift masts and sails taken from the Essex, and boards were added to heighten the gunwales and prevent large waves from spilling over the sides.Philbrick 2001 90–93 On December 20, exactly one month after the whale attack, with the men suffering from starvation, dehydration and exposure, the boats landed on uninhabited Henderson Island, a small uplifted coral atoll within the modern-day British territory of the Pitcairn Islands. The men incorrectly believed that they had landed on Ducie Island, a similar atoll 220 mi km to the east. Had they landed on Pitcairn Island itself, 120 mi km to the southwest, they might have received help; the descendants of the survivors of Bounty, who had mutinied in 1789, still lived there.Philbrick 2001 140Owen Chase, one of the eight survivors, recorded the events in his 1821 Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex. Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this narrative.Philbrick 2000 xii- xv unknown dates More than 20 years after the poet's death, Robert Chambers edits and publishes The Songs of Robert Burns.Robert Burns The life and works of Robert Burns, ed. by R. Chambers. Libr. ed https://books.google.com/books?id=haACAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA2-PA318 1856 2 Thomas Kendall has the first book printed in the Māori language, A korao no New Zealand; or, the New Zealander's first book; being an attempt to compose some lessons for the instruction of the natives, published in Sydney, Australia.http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/default.asp?Find_Quick.asp?PersonEssay=1K9 Dictionary of New Zealand Biography Thomas Kendall The first translation of the Old English epic poem Beowulf into a modern language, Danish, Bjovulfs Drape, by N. F. S. Grundtvig, is published.SAJ Bradley N.F.S. Grundtvig, A Life Recalled: An Anthology of Biographical Source-Texts https://books.google.com/books?id=3Z2eDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA436 31 December 2008 Aarhus University Press 978-87-7934-007-7 436 The Cambridge Apostles, an intellectual discussion group, is established at the University of Cambridge in England.A. C. Grayling Andrew Pyle Naomi Goulder Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy https://books.google.com/books?id=uAYRAQAAMAAJ 28 June 2006 Bloomsbury Academic 978-1-84371-141-4 123 New books Fiction James Fenimore Cooper – Precaution Thomas Gaspey – Forty Years Ago Robert Huish – Castle of Nielo Francis Lathom – Italian Mysteries Charles Maturin (anonymously) – Melmoth the Wanderer Regina Marie Roche – The Munster Cottage Boy Sir Walter Scott (anonymously) Ivanhoe (published 1819, dated 1820) The Abbot The Monastery Louisa Stanhope – The Crusaders Rosalia St. Clair – The Highland Castle, and the Lowland Cottage Children Maria Hack English Stories, illustrating some of the most interesting events and characters between the Accession of Alfred and the Death of John English Stories. Second series, between the Accession of Henry the Third and the Death of Henry the Sixth Mary Shelley – Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot (written 1820 then lost, published 1997) Drama James Sheridan Knowles – VirginiusJonathon Sachs Romantic Antiquity: Rome in the British Imagination, 1789-1832 OUP USA 2010 224 Percy Bysshe Shelley – Prometheus UnboundShelley Percy Bysshe 1820 Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems C and J Ollier London 1 https://archive.org/details/prometheusunboun00shelrich 21 May 2015 via Internet Archive George Soane – The HebrewJohn C. Greene Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820: A Calendar of Performances, Volume 6 Lexington Books 2011 4547 Charles Edward Walker – WallaceAllardyce Nicoll A History of Early Nineteenth Century Drama 1800-1850 Cambridge University Press 1930 416 Poetry Robert Burns (died 1796) – The Songs of Robert Burns John Clare – Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery John Keats The Eve of St. Agnes Lamia and Other Poems Alphonse de Lamartine – Méditations poétiques Adam Mickiewicz – Ode to Youth (Oda do młodości) Nguyễn Du – The Tale of Kieu (斷腸新聲, Truyện Kiều) Aleksandr Pushkin – Ruslan and Ludmila (Руслан и Людмила) Percy Bysshe Shelley – To a Skylark Non-fiction Thomas Brown – Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind Howard Douglas – A Treatise on Naval Gunnery Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel – Elements of the Philosophy of Right John George Hoffman – Pow-Wows; or, Long Lost Friend Claude François Lallemand – Recherches anatomico-pathologiques sur l'encéphale et ses dépendances (to 1832) Charles Lamb – Essays of Elia (begin publication in The London Magazine) Thomas Malthus – Principles of Political Economy Charles Mills – History of the Crusades for the Recovery and Possession of the Holy Land Robert Southey – Life of Wesley Mariana Starke – Travels on the Continent: written for the use and particular information of travellers Births January 17 – Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet (died 1849)Anne Brontë British author https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anne-Bronte Encyclopedia Britannica 8 April 2019 en January 30 – Concepción Arenal, Spanish feminist writer and activist (died 1893)Calendar of Spanish Anniversaries https://books.google.com/books?id=vrYUAQAAIAAJ 1935 Tardy publishing Company, Incorporated February 28 – John Tenniel, English illustrator and cartoonist (died 1914)Sir John Tenniel https://books.google.com/books?id=AnoKcQVWj3cC 1914 Bradbury, Agnew & Company 1863 March 2 – Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker), Dutch writer (died 1887)Multatuli Max Havelaar, Or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company https://books.google.com/books?id=vvY2AAAAIAAJ 1982 University of Massachusetts Press 339 978-0-87023-360-9 March 17 – Jean Ingelow, English poet and novelist (died 1897)Joanne Shattock The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers Oxford Oxford University Press 1993 225 978-0-19214-176-7 March 30 – Anna Sewell, English novelist (died 1878) April 4 – Mkrtich Khrimian, Armenian Catholicos, essayist and poet (died 1907) April 16 – Charlotte A. Jerauld, American poet and story writer (died 1845)Jerauld Charlotte Ann Fillebrown Bacon Henry Poetry and prose https://archive.org/details/poetryandprose00bacogoog Public domain 1860 A. Tompkins 22– April 26 – Alice Cary, American poet and short-story writer (died 1871)Edwin Francis Hatfield The Poets of the Church: A Series of Biographical Sketches of Hymn-writers with Notes on Their Hymns https://books.google.com/books?id=1X9Na4_B8TsC&pg=PA133 1884 A. D. F. Randolph 133 April 27 – Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (died 1903)Daniel Greenleaf Thompson Herbert Spencer: His Life, Writings, and Philosophy https://books.google.com/books?id=hEMvdumLD3EC&pg=PA4 1889 G.H. Ellis 4 June 21 – James Halliwell-Phillipps, English bibliophile (died 1889) August 13 – Sir George Grove, English writer and lexicographer on music (died 1900) September 2 – Lucretia Peabody Hale, American journalist and author (died 1900)Kathleen Kuiper Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature Springfield Merriam-Webster 1995 978-0-87779-042-6 508 September 17 – Émile Augier, French dramatist (died 1889)Charles Dudley Warner A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLII (Forty-Five Volumes); Dictionary of Authors (A-J) https://books.google.com/books?id=0g7UAtyUJYMC&pg=PA29 1 July 2008 Cosimo, Inc. 978-1-60520-248-8 29 October 14 – John Harris, English poet (died 1884) November 23 (December 5 N.S.) – Afanasy Fet, Russian lyric poet, essayist and short-story writer (died 1892) November 28 – Friedrich Engels, German socialist writer (died 1895)V. Ė Kunina Frederick Engels: His Life and Work: Documents and Photographs https://books.google.com/books?id=GdILAAAAYAAJ 1987 Progress 18 978-0-7147-2582-6 Deaths February 5 – William Drennan, Irish poet, radical and educationalist (born 1754) February 23 – Alojzy Feliński, Polish poet (born 1771)4: Oświecenie Bibliografia Literatury Polskiej – Nowy Korbut Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy Warszawa 1966 451–456 pl March 20 – Eaton Stannard Barrett, Irish satirical poet and novelist (born 1786)The Ladies' Monthly Museum https://books.google.com/books?id=tZMeAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA53 1820 J.W.H. Payne 53 April 2 – Thomas Brown, Scottish philosopher and poet (born 1778)Trevor Royle Macmillan Companion to Scottish Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=SDJdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA43 11 November 1984 Macmillan International Higher Education 978-1-349-07587-4 43 May 1 – Richmal Mangnall, English schoolbook writer (born 1769) July 16 – William Hazlitt Sr., Irish writer, radical and Unitarian minister, father of William Hazlitt (born 1737)Wu Duncan William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man Oxford University Press Oxford & New York 2008 August 23 – Michel de Cubières, French poet, dramatist and historian (born 1752) September 16 – Nguyễn Du, Vietnamese poet (born 1766) October 5 – Augustin Barruel, French Jesuit priest and writer (born 1741) November 8 – Lavinia Stoddard, American poet and educationist (born 1787)Griswold Rufus Wilmot Rufus Wilmot Griswold The Female Poets of America https://books.google.com/books?id=dvjq1dwGmgIC&pg=PA44 Public domain 1858 Ardent Media November 12 – William Hayley, English poet and biographer (born 1745)Thomas Dugdale England & Wales delineated, by T. Dugdale, assisted by W. Burnett. (Curiosities of Great Britain) https://books.google.com/books?id=dQ4HAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA461 1830 461 Probable – Dionisie Eclesiarhul, Wallachian scribe, chronicler and illustrator (born c. 1740) References 30em Sources Philbrick Nathaniel Nathaniel Philbrick 2000 In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex https://books.google.com/books?id=roXy5kT34j4C Viking New York 0-670-89157-6 Philbrick Nathaniel https://archive.org/details/inheartofseatra00phil In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex Penguin Books 2001 0-14-100182-8 New York 46949818 Nathaniel Philbrick registration External links 1820 Books at Goodreads