1820 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1820.

Events

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.[1]
  • April 22 – Walter Scott is created the 1st Scott baronet of Abbotsford in the County of Roxburgh in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.[2] 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. [3]
  • 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".[4]
  • 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 miles (3.2 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.[5] 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.[6] 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 miles (350 km) to the east. Had they landed on Pitcairn Island itself, 120 miles (190 km) to the southwest, they might have received help; the descendants of the survivors of HMS Bounty, who had mutinied in 1789, still lived there.[7]Owen 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.[8]
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New books

Fiction

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

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

References

  1. ↑ [Gilchrist, Octavius] (1820). "Some Account of John Clare, an Agricultural Labourer and Poet". The London Magazine.
  2. ↑ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
  3. ↑ Scott, Walter (1971). The Letters of Sir Walter Scott: 1826-1828. AMS Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-404-05650-6.
  4. ↑ Rodriguez, Andres; Rodríguez, Andrés (1993). Book of the Heart: The Poetics, Letters, and Life of John Keats. SteinerBooks. ISBN 978-0940262577 – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ Philbrick 2001, pp. 83–84
  6. ↑ Philbrick 2001, pp. 90–93
  7. ↑ Philbrick 2001, p. 140
  8. ↑ Philbrick (2000), p. xii- xv.
  9. ↑ Robert Burns (1856). The life and works of Robert Burns, ed. by R. Chambers. Libr. ed. p. 2.
  10. ↑ "Thomas Kendall", Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ Jonathon Sachs (2010). Romantic Antiquity: Rome in the British Imagination, 1789-1832. OUP USA. p. 224.
  14. ↑ 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
  15. ↑ John C. Greene (2011). Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820: A Calendar of Performances, Volume 6. Lexington Books. p. 4547.
  16. ↑ Allardyce Nicoll (1930). A History of Early Nineteenth Century Drama 1800-1850. Cambridge University Press. p. 416.
  17. ↑ "Anne Brontë | British author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  18. ↑ Calendar of Spanish Anniversaries. Tardy publishing Company, Incorporated. 1935.
  19. ↑ Sir John Tenniel. Bradbury, Agnew & Company. 1914. p. 1863.
  20. ↑ 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.
  21. ↑ Shattock, Joanne (1993). The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 225. ISBN 978-0-19214-176-7.
  22. ↑ Jerauld, Charlotte Ann Fillebrown; Bacon, Henry (1860). Poetry and prose (Public domain ed.). A. Tompkins. pp. 22–.
  23. ↑ 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.
  24. ↑ Daniel Greenleaf Thompson (1889). Herbert Spencer: His Life, Writings, and Philosophy. G.H. Ellis. p. 4.
  25. ↑ Kuiper, Kathleen (1995). Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. Springfield: Merriam-Webster. p. 508. ISBN 978-0-87779-042-6.
  26. ↑ 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.
  27. ↑ V. Ė Kunina (1987). Frederick Engels: His Life and Work: Documents and Photographs. Progress. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-7147-2582-6.
  28. ↑ Bibliografia Literatury Polskiej – Nowy Korbut (in Polish). Vol. 4: Oświecenie. Warszawa: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy. 1966. pp. 451–456.
  29. ↑ The Ladies' Monthly Museum. J.W.H. Payne. 1820. p. 53.
  30. ↑ Trevor Royle (11 November 1984). Macmillan Companion to Scottish Literature. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 43. ISBN 978-1-349-07587-4.
  31. ↑ Wu, Duncan (2008). William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press.
  32. ↑ Griswold, Rufus Wilmot (1858). The Female Poets of America (Public domain ed.). Ardent Media.
  33. ↑ Thomas Dugdale (1830). England & Wales delineated, by T. Dugdale, assisted by W. Burnett. (Curiosities of Great Britain). p. 461.

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