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1814 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1814.

List of years in literature (table)
In poetry
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Events

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  • January 14 (January 2 O.S.) – The Imperial Public Library in Saint Petersburg opens to the public.Elena Valentinovna Barkhatova; Paul Williams; I︠U︡. S. Pamfilov (1995). The National Library of Russia, 1795-1995. Liki Rossii. pp. 10–18. ISBN 9785874170158.10-18&rft.pub=Liki Rossii&rft.date=1995&rft.isbn=9785874170158&rft.au=Elena Valentinovna Barkhatova&rft.au=Paul Williams&rft.au=I︠U︡. S. Pamfilov&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:1814 in literature" class="Z3988"></ref>[1]
  • January 26 – Actor Edmund Kean makes his London début in the leading rôle of Shylock at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.[2]
  • February 1 – Lord Byron's semi-autobiographical tale in verse The Corsair is published by John Murray in London and sells 10,000 copies on this day[3] and over 25,000 in the first month, going through seven editions. His Lara sells 6,000 copies on publication in the summer.[4] Walter Scott is to say of Byron's poetry: "He beat me out of the field in description of the stronger passions and in deep-seated knowledge of the human heart."
  • July 7 – Walter Scott's Waverley, his first work of fiction and a major early historical novel in English, is published anonymously by Archibald Constable in Edinburgh, a week after Scott finishes it. It sells out in two days.[5]
  • July 28–September 13 – English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley abandons his pregnant wife and runs away to France and Switzerland with the 16-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, accompanied by her stepsister Jane Clairmont, also 16.[6]
  • August 24 – Burning of Washington (War of 1812): The British burn the original Library of Congress, at this time housed in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.
  • September 12–15 – Battle of Baltimore (War of 1812): American lawyer Francis Scott Key, witnessing the bombardment of Baltimore, Maryland, from a British ship, writes "Defence of Fort McHenry". His brother-in-law arranges to have the poem published in a broadside with a recommended tune on September 17; on September 20 both the Baltimore Patriot and The American print it. The song quickly becomes popular – seventeen newspapers from Georgia to New Hampshire reprint it. In 1931, it is adopted as "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem of the United States.[7]
  • September 21 After arrangements have been made for the United States Library of Congress, destroyed in August's Burning of Washington, to be re-stocked by purchase of the personal library of ex-President Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson writes to Samuel H. Smith, saying that there is "no subject to which a Member of Congress may not have occasion to refer".[8]
  • November 29 – In London, The Times newspaper is printed using a revolutionary steam press for the first time.[9] It runs at a rate of 1100 copies per hour.
  • Late – The first edition of the second volume of the Brothers Grimm's Grimms' Fairy Tales appears, dated 1815.
  • unknown dates

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Children

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Drama

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Poetry

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Non-fiction

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Births

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References

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  1. ^ Valentinovna Barkhatova, Williams, Elena, Paul (1995). The National Library of Russia, 1795-1995. pp. 10–18. ISBN 9785874170158.10-18&rft.date=1995&rft.isbn=9785874170158&rft.aulast=Valentinovna Barkhatova, Williams&rft.aufirst=Elena, Paul&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:1814 in literature" class="Z3988">{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press. 2012. p. 371. ISBN 9780521518246.
  3. ^ Jones, Neal T., ed. (1984). A Book of Days for the Literary Year. London; New York: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-01332-2.
  4. ^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
  5. ^ "Waverley". Walter Scott. Edinburgh University Library. 2011-12-19. Archived from the original on 2013-04-30. Retrieved 2013-06-29.
  6. ^ History of a Six Weeks' Tour.
  7. ^ Carruth, Gorton (1993). The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates (9th ed.). HarperCollins.
  8. ^ "Jefferson's Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress". Library of Congress. 2006-03-06. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
  9. ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 246–247. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.246-247&rft.pub=Century Ltd&rft.date=1992&rft.isbn=0-7126-5616-2&rft.aulast=Palmer&rft.aufirst=Alan&rft.au=Palmer, Veronica&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:1814 in literature" class="Z3988">
  10. ^ Alfred de Vigny (1914). Lettres inédites de Alfred de Vigny au marquis et à la marquise de La Grange (1827-1861) pub. L. Conard. p. vi.
  11. ^ "BBC - History - Jane Austen". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  12. ^ Robert Henry Mair (1869). Debrett's Illustrated House of Commons and the Judicial Bench. Dean & Son. p. 87.
  13. ^ The Bookman. Hodder and Stoughton. 1913. p. 265.
  14. ^ Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Fichte, Johann Gottlieb" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
  15. ^ Day, Gary; Lynch, Jack (9 March 2015). The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set: 1660 - 1789. John Wiley & Sons. p. 922. ISBN 978-1-4443-3020-5.
  16. ^ Lever, Maurice (1993). Marquis de Sade, a biography. Translated by Goldhammer, Arthur. London: Harper Collins. pp. 563–564. ISBN 0-246-13666-9.563-564&rft.pub=Harper Collins&rft.date=1993&rft.isbn=0-246-13666-9&rft.aulast=Lever&rft.aufirst=Maurice&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:1814 in literature" class="Z3988">
  17. ^ Niobe: a prize poem, recited in the Theatre, Oxford, in the year MDCCXIV
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