1804 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1804.

Events

• March 17 – First performance of Friedrich Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell, at Weimar under the direction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
• April – John Keats' father dies from a fractured skull, after falling from his horse while returning from visiting John at school.
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge moves to Malta.
• James Mill publishes a pamphlet critical of the corn trade.
• William Wordsworth writes the poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.^[1]
• German Gerhard Bonnier begins a publishing business in Copenhagen (Denmark) by issuing Underfulde og sandfærdige kriminalhistorier, 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
• Elizabeth Lefanu – The India Voyage
• Mary Meeke
  • Amazement
  • The Nine Days' Wonder
• Henrietta Rouviere Mosse – Lussington Abbey
• Mary A. Neri – The Eve of San-Pietro
• Amelia Opie – Adeline Mowbray
• Ōta Nanpo (大田 南畝) and others – Shokusanjin ennyo meisekishu (Collection of Shokusanjin memorabilia)
• Anna Maria Porter – The Lake of Killarney
• Etienne Senancour – Oberman
• Sarah Wilkinson – The Knights of Calatrava
• Mary Julia Young – The Mother and Daughter

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
• Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor – Original Poems for Infant Minds by several young persons, Vol. 1

Drama

• P. Fligneau – L'Haïtien expatrié
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• August 9 – Robert Potter, English translator, poet and cleric (born 1721)
• August 13 – Anica Bošković, Ragusan writer (born 1714)
• 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)
• Unknown dates
  • Samuel Ayscough, English librarian and indexer (born 1745)
  • Jean-Louis de Lolme, Swiss political theorist (born 1741)

Awards

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