1802 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1802.

Events

• April 15 – William and Dorothy Wordsworth, walking by Ullswater, see a belt of daffodils which inspire his poem, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, first written two years later.^[1]
• April 19 – Joseph Grimaldi first presents his white-faced clown character "Joey", at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London.^[2]
• Summer – Adam Oehlenschläger writes at a sitting the poem "Guldhornene", introducing Romanticism into Danish poetry.^[3]
• September 3 – William Wordsworth's sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 written.
• October 4 – William Wordsworth marries Mary Hutchinson at Brompton, Scarborough.
• October 10 – The reforming quarterly The Edinburgh Review is first published.
• November 13 – The first play in English to be explicitly called a melodrama ("melodrame") is performed in London, Thomas Holcroft's Gothic A Tale of Mystery (an unacknowledged translation of de Pixerécourt's Cœlina, ou, l'enfant du mystère) at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.^[4]
• November 15 – Washington Irving makes his first appearance in print at age nineteen, submitting observational letters to the New York Morning Chronicle under the name Jonathan Oldstyle.
• December 2–3 – Jane Austen accepts, then rejects, a proposal of marriage from Harris Bigg-Wither at his Hampshire home.^[5]
• Henry Boyd completes the first full English translation of Dante's Divine Comedy.
• Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron publishes Oupneck'hat in Latin, the first tranlsation of the Upanishads into a Western language.
• The first part of Jippensha Ikku's picaresque novel Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige (東海道中膝栗毛, Shank's Mare) is published in Japan.

New books

• François-René de Chateaubriand – René
• Elizabeth Craven – The Soldiers of Dierenstein
• John Gilchrist – Hindee Story Teller
• Elizabeth Gunning – The Farmer's Boy
• Jane Harvey – Warkfield Castle
• Rachel Hunter – The History of the Grubthorpe Family
• Isabella Kelly – The Baron's Daughter
• Francis Lathom – Astonishment!!!
• Mary Meeke
  • Independence
  • Midnight Weddings
• Theodore Melville – The White Knight
• Susannah Oakes – The Rules of the Forest
• Mary Pilkington – The Accusing Spirit
• Anne Louise Germaine de Stael – Delphine
• Harriet Ventum – Justina
• Jane West – The Infidel Father

New drama

• Charles-Guillaume Étienne – Les Deux Mères
• Heinrich Joseph von Collin – Coriolan

Poetry

• Walter Scott, ed., anonymously – The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border

Non-fiction

• Jeremy Bentham – Civil War and Penal Legislation
• Jacob Boehme – Les Trois Principes de l'Essence Divine (translated into French by Louis Claude de Saint-Martin)
• François-René de Chateaubriand – The Genius of Christianity
• John Debrett – first edition of Debrett's Peerage
• John Home – History of the Rebellion of 1745
• Malcolm Laing – History of Scotland from the Union of the Crowns to the Union of the Kingdoms
• Louis Claude de Saint-Martin – Le Ministére de l'homme-esprit
• Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling – Bruno oder über das göttliche und natürliche Prinzip der Dinge
• Daniel Webster – The Rights of Neutral Nations in Time of War

Births

• January 9 – Catharine Parr Traill, English-Canadian memoirist and children's author (died 1899)
• February 11 – Lydia Maria Child, American abolitionist, activist, novelist, and journalist (died 1880)
• February 26 – Victor Hugo, French novelist and poet (died 1885)
• June 2 – Karl Lehrs, German classicist (died 1878)
• June 12 – Harriet Martineau, English social theorist (died 1876)
• July 10 – Robert Chambers, Scottish writer and publisher (died 1871)
• July 24 – Alexandre Dumas, père, French novelist (died 1870)
• July 28 – Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet (died 1839)
• August 25 – Nikolaus Lenau, Hungarian-born German poet (died 1850)
• November 29 – Wilhelm Hauff, German poet and novelist (died 1827)
• December 8 – Alexander Odoevsky, Russian poet (died 1839)
• December 23 – Sara Coleridge, English poet and translator (died 1852)

Deaths

• February 26 – Alexander Geddes, Scottish theologian, scholar and priest (born 1737)
• April 18 – Erasmus Darwin, English poet and natural philosopher (born 1731)
• June 5 – Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti, German classicist (born 1756)
• June 29 – Johann Jakob Engel, German teacher and writer (born 1741)
• August 10 – Franz Aepinus, German natural philosopher (born 1724)
• December 27 – Thomas Cadell, English bookseller and publisher (born 1742)
• Unknown date – John Pope, American soldier and travel writer (born 1749)

Awards

References

1. "Dorothy and the daffodils". Wordsworth Trust. Retrieved 2010-08-21.
2. Uglow, Jenny (1 November 2009). "The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi by Andrew McConnell". The Guardian. Retrieved 2011-01-12.
3.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gosse, Edmund (1911). "Öhlenschläger, Adam Gottlob". In Chisholm, Hugh. Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
4. "Show me the horrid tenant of thy heart". THEA. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
5. Sutherland, John; Fender, Stephen (2011). Love, Sex, Death & Words: Surprising Tales from a Year in Literature. London: Icon. p. 457. ISBN 978-184831-247-0.