This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1804.
Events
March 17 – The first performance of Friedrich Schiller's play William Tell takes place at Weimar under the direction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. April 4 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge sets sail on The Speedwell for the Mediterranean. In Malta, he obtains employment as Acting Public Secretary at Attard. April 15 – Thomas Keats (John Keats' father), a stable worker, dies of a fractured skull, after falling from his horse while returning from visiting John at school. unknown dates James Mill's pamphlet critical of the corn trade, An Essay on the Impolicy of a Bounty on the Exportation of Grain, is published.An essay of the impolicy of a bounty on the exportation of grain, 1804. William Wordsworth writes his best-known poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", describing a scene he witnessed two years earlier. German Gerhard Bonnier begins a publishing business in Copenhagen (Denmark) by issuing , origin of the Swedish Bonnier Group.
New books Fiction Mir Amman – Bagh o Buhar, a Translation into the Hindoostanee Tongue of the Celebrated Persian Tale "Qissui Chuhar Durwesh" "by Meer Ummun" Sophie Ristaud Cottin – Malvina Rachel Hunter -The Unexpected Legacy William Henry Ireland – The Sepulchral Summons Mary Meeke Amazement The Nine Days' Wonder Amelia Opie – Adeline Mowbray Ōta Nanpo (大田 南畝) and others – (Collection of Shokusanjin memorabilia) Anna Maria Porter – The Lake of Killarney
Children François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil Elmonde, ou la Fille de l'hospice (Edmonde, the charity girl) Jules, ou le Toit paternel (Jules, or Under his father's roof) Maria Edgeworth – Popular Tales Eliza Fenwick – Mary and Her Cat Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor – Original Poems for Infant Minds by several young persons, Vol. 1
Drama Richard Cumberland – The Sailor's Daughter Thomas Dibdin Guilty or Not Guilty The Will for the Deed Francis Ludlow Holt – The Land We Live In Frederick Reynolds – The Blind Bargain Friedrich von Schiller – Wilhelm Tell Friedrich Hölderlin – translations of the dramas of Sophocles (published)
Poetry William Blake – Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion William Lisle Bowles – The Spirit of Discovery Kirsha Danilov – The Ancient Russian Poems
Non-fiction Thomas Brown – Inquiry into the Relation of Cause and Effect John Wilson Croker – Familiar Epistles to J. F. Jones, Esquire, on the State of the Irish Stage Jakob Friedrich Fries – System der Philosophie als evidente Wissenschaft Jacques Labillardière – Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale – Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth
Births July 1 – George Sand (Lucile Aurore Dupin), French novelist and memoirist (died 1876) July 4 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist (died 1864) August 8 – Countess Dash, French writer (died 1872) September 8 – Eduard Mörike, German poet (died 1875) November 6 – Benjamin Hall Kennedy, English classicist (died 1880) December 10 – Eugène Sue, French novelist (died 1857) December 21 – Benjamin Disraeli, English novelist and prime minister (died 1881)
Deaths January 4 – Charlotte Lennox, English novelist and playwright (born c. 1730) January 11 – James Tytler, Scottish American editor of Encyclopædia Britannica (born 1745) February 6 – Joseph Priestley, English natural philosopher and theologian (born 1733) February 12 – Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (born 1724) February 19 – Philip Yorke, Welsh antiquary and genealogist (born 1743) April 3 – Jędrzej Kitowicz, Polish historian and diarist (born c. 1727) April 27 – Jonathan Boucher, English philologist (born 1738) May 3 – Celestyn Czaplic, Polish poet and politician (born 1723) July 16 – Jean-Louis de Lolme, Swiss political theorist (born 1741) August 9 – Robert Potter, English translator, poet and cleric (born 1721) August 13 – Anica Bošković, Ragusan writer (born 1714) October 30 – Samuel Ayscough, English librarian and indexer (born 1745) November 5 – Betje Wolff, Dutch novelist (born 1738) November 23 – Richard Graves, English poet and novelist (born 1715) December 9 – Wilhelm Abraham Teller, German theologian (born 1734) December – John Boydell, English Shakespeare illustrator and engraver (born 1720)
References
External links 1804 Books at Goodreads