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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1820.
Events
[edit]- January 16 – Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery by "Northamptonshire peasant poet" John Clare is published in England by John Taylor.[1]
- April 22 – Walter Scott is created 1st baronet of Abbotsford in the County of Roxburgh in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.[2]
- 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.
- 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. Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.
- unknown dates
- More than 20 years after the poet's death, Robert Chambers edits and publishes The Songs of Robert Burns.[3]
- 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.[4]
- The first translation of the Old English epic poem Beowulf into a modern language, Danish, Bjovulfs Drape, by N. F. S. Grundtvig, is published.[5]
- The Cambridge Apostles, an intellectual discussion group, is established at the University of Cambridge in England.[6]
New books
[edit]Fiction
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- James Sheridan Knowles – Virginius[7]
- Percy Bysshe Shelley – Prometheus Unbound[8]
- George Soane – The Hebrew[9]
- Charles Edward Walker – Wallace[10]
Poetry
[edit]- Robert Burns (died 1796) – The Songs of Robert Burns
- John Clare – Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery
- John Keats
- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- January 17 – Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet (died 1849)[11]
- January 30 – Concepción Arenal, Spanish feminist writer and activist (died 1893)[12]
- February 28 – John Tenniel, English illustrator and cartoonist (died 1914)[13]
- March 2 – Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker), Dutch writer (died 1887)[14]
- March 17 – Jean Ingelow, English poet and novelist (died 1897)[15]
- 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)[16]
- April 26 – Alice Cary, American poet and short-story writer (died 1871)[17]
- April 27 – Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (died 1903)[18]
- 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)[19]
- September 17 – Émile Augier, French dramatist (died 1889)[20]
- 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)[21]
Deaths
[edit]- February 5 – William Drennan, Irish poet, radical and educationalist (born 1754)
- February 23 – Alojzy Feliński, Polish poet (born 1771)[22]
- March 20 – Eaton Stannard Barrett, Irish satirical poet and novelist (born 1786)[23]
- April 2 – Thomas Brown, Scottish philosopher and poet (born 1778)[24]
- 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)[25]
- 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)[26]
- November 12 – William Hayley, English poet and biographer (born 1745)[27]
- Probable – Dionisie Eclesiarhul, Wallachian scribe, chronicler and illustrator (born c. 1740)
References
[edit]- ^ [Gilchrist, Octavius] (1820). "Some Account of John Clare, an Agricultural Labourer and Poet". The London Magazine.
- ^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ Robert Burns (1856). The life and works of Robert Burns, ed. by R. Chambers. Libr. ed. p. 2.
- ^ "Thomas Kendall", Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
- ^ SAJ Bradley (31 December 2008). N.F.S. Grundtvig, A Life Recalled: An Anthology of Biographical Source-Texts. Aarhus University Press. p. 436. ISBN 978-87-7934-007-7.
- ^ A. C. Grayling; Andrew Pyle; Naomi Goulder (28 June 2006). Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 123. ISBN 978-1-84371-141-4.
- ^ Jonathon Sachs (2010). Romantic Antiquity: Rome in the British Imagination, 1789-1832. OUP USA. p. 224.
- ^ Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1820). Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems (1 ed.). London: C and J Ollier. Retrieved 21 May 2015. via Internet Archive
- ^ John C. Greene (2011). Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820: A Calendar of Performances, Volume 6. Lexington Books. p. 4547.
- ^ Allardyce Nicoll (1930). A History of Early Nineteenth Century Drama 1800-1850. Cambridge University Press. p. 416.
- ^ "Anne Brontë | British author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- ^ Calendar of Spanish Anniversaries. Tardy publishing Company, Incorporated. 1935.
- ^ Sir John Tenniel. Bradbury, Agnew & Company. 1914. p. 1863.
- ^ Multatuli (1982). Max Havelaar, Or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company. University of Massachusetts Press. p. 339. ISBN 978-0-87023-360-9.
- ^ Shattock, Joanne (1993). The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 225. ISBN 978-0-19214-176-7.
- ^ Jerauld, Charlotte Ann Fillebrown; Bacon, Henry (1860). Poetry and prose (Public domain ed.). A. Tompkins. pp. 22–.
- ^ Edwin Francis Hatfield (1884). The Poets of the Church: A Series of Biographical Sketches of Hymn-writers with Notes on Their Hymns. A. D. F. Randolph. p. 133.
- ^ Daniel Greenleaf Thompson (1889). Herbert Spencer: His Life, Writings, and Philosophy. G.H. Ellis. p. 4.
- ^ Kuiper, Kathleen (1995). Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. Springfield: Merriam-Webster. p. 508. ISBN 978-0-87779-042-6.
- ^ Charles Dudley Warner (1 July 2008). A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLII (Forty-Five Volumes); Dictionary of Authors (A-J). Cosimo, Inc. p. 29. ISBN 978-1-60520-248-8.
- ^ V. Ė Kunina (1987). Frederick Engels: His Life and Work: Documents and Photographs. Progress. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-7147-2582-6.
- ^ Bibliografia Literatury Polskiej – Nowy Korbut (in Polish). Vol. 4: Oświecenie. Warszawa: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy. 1966. pp. 451–456.
- ^ The Ladies' Monthly Museum. J.W.H. Payne. 1820. p. 53.
- ^ Trevor Royle (11 November 1984). Macmillan Companion to Scottish Literature. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 43. ISBN 978-1-349-07587-4.
- ^ Wu, Duncan (2008). William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press.
- ^ Griswold, Rufus Wilmot (1858). The Female Poets of America (Public domain ed.). Ardent Media.
- ^ Thomas Dugdale (1830). England & Wales delineated, by T. Dugdale, assisted by W. Burnett. (Curiosities of Great Britain). p. 461.