Overview of the events of 1818 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1818 .
Events
January 1 – Mary Shelley 's novel Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus first appears anonymously in London.[1]
January 8 – Lord Byron , in Venice, sends the final part of Childe Harold to his publisher.[2]
January 11 – Percy Bysshe Shelley 's poem "Ozymandias " appears in Leigh Hunt 's weekly The Examiner (London; p. 24) under the pen name 'Glirastes'; Horace Smith 's contribution to the same informal sonnet -writing competition, "On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below" is published on February 1 under his initials.
January – Samuel Taylor Coleridge delivers a series of lectures on poetry, drama and philosophy, beginning with Shakespeare 's Hamlet .[3]
March 12 – Percy Bysshe Shelley , his wife Mary and her stepsister Claire Clairmont leave England for Italy, intending to take Claire's illegitimate child Alba to her father, Lord Byron .[4]
April 11 – John Keats and Samuel Taylor Coleridge take a walk on Hampstead Heath . In a letter to his brother George, Keats writes that they talked of "a thousand things... nightingales, poetry, poetical sensation, metaphysics."[5]
May 11 – The Old Vic is founded as the Royal Coburg Theatre in South London by James King, Daniel Dunn and John Thomas Serres .
June–August – Keats and his friend Charles Armitage Brown make a walking tour of Scotland (including Burns Cottage ), Ireland and the English Lake District .
July
July 18 – Walter Scott 's historical novel The Heart of Midlothian appears as Tales of My Landlord , 2nd series, by 'Jedediah Cleishbotham ', in 4 volumes; a shipload from John Ballantyne (publisher) is sent from Edinburgh to London.[6]
August 28 – The National Library of Iceland is founded as Íslands stiftisbókasafn at the instigation of a Danish antiquarian, Carl Christian Rafn , and the Icelandic Literary Society .
September 19 – Lord Byron writes to Thomas Moore that he has completed the first canto of Don Juan , begun on July 3.[7]
November – Fanny Brawne first meets John Keats at the home of Charles Armitage Brown.[8]
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References
^ a b "Icons, a portrait of England 1800–1820" . Archived from the original on 2007-10-17. Retrieved 2007-09-11 .
^ Letter CCCIV.
^ Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Hamlet" . Lectures and Notes on Shakspere and Other English Poets . Shakespeare and his Critics. Archived from the original on 2014-01-13. Retrieved 2014-01-07 .
^ Gittings, Robert ; Manton, Jo (1992). Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys . Oxford University Press. pp. 39–42. ISBN 0-19-818594-4 .
^ Motion, Andrew (1997). Keats . London: Faber. pp. 365–66. ISBN 057117227X .
^ Sutherland, John (2014). How to be Well Read . London: Random House. p. 214. ISBN 978-1-847-94640-9 .
^ Letter CCCXXII.
^ Walsh, John Evangelist (1999). Darkling, I Listen: The Last Days and Death of John Keats . New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0312222556 .
^ a b Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 249–250. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2 .
^ "Emily Bronte | Biography, Works, & Facts" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 8 April 2019 .
^ Royle, Trevor (2012). The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature . Random House. p. 92. ISBN 9781780574196 .
^ The Gentleman's Magazine , 88 (1): p. 443.