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1819 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1819. Events * January 30 – Romney Literary Society is established as the Polemic Society of Romney, West Virginia. *April – John Keats begins his "Great Year" or "Living Year", during which he is at his most productive, having given up work at Guy's Hospital and moved into a new house, Wentworth Place, on Hampstead Heath on the edge of London. On April 3, Charles Wentworth Dilke lets his house, next door to Keats, to Mrs Brawne, whose daughter Fanny would become the love of Keats's life. Between April 21 and the end of May Keats writes ''La Belle Dame sans Merci'' and most of his major odes: ''Ode to Psyche'', ''Ode on a Grecian Urn'', ''Ode to a Nightingale'', ''Ode on Indolence'' and ''Ode on Melancholy''. In the summer he writes ''Lamia''; on September 19 he writes his ode ''To Autumn'' at Winchester; and on October 19 proposes marriage to Fanny. *April 1 – In London ''The New Monthly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 30
Events Pre-1600 *1018 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen. *1287 – King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom. 1601–1900 *1607 – An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by 1607 Bristol Channel floods, massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths. *1648 – Eighty Years' War: The Peace of Münster, Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain. *1649 – Charles I of England is executed in Whitehall, London. *1661 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector#Cromwellian republican Commonwealth, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is posthumous execution, ritually executed more than two years after his death, on the 12th anniversary of the execution of Charles I of England, the monarch he himself deposed. *1703 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winchester
Winchester is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government Districts of England, district, at the western end of the South Downs National Park, on the River Itchen, Hampshire, River Itchen. It is south-west of London and from Southampton, its nearest city. At the 2011 census, Winchester had a population of 45,184. The wider City of Winchester district, which includes towns such as New Alresford, Alresford and Bishop's Waltham, has a population of 116,595. Winchester is the county town of Hampshire and contains the head offices of Hampshire County Council. Winchester developed from the Roman Britain, Roman town of Venta Belgarum, which in turn developed from an Iron Age oppidum. Winchester was one of the most important cities in England until the Norman conquest of England, Norman conquest in the eleventh century. It has since become one of the most expensive and afflue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Legend Of Montrose
''A Legend of Montrose'' is an historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Scotland in the 1640s during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It forms, along with ''The Bride of Lammermoor'', the 3rd series of Scott's ''Tales of My Landlord''. The two novels were published together in 1819. Composition ''A Legend of the Wars of Montrose'' was composed during May 1819, immediately after the completion of its companion novel ''The Bride of Lammermoor'' though it had been envisaged before the ''Bride'' was begun. Scott was still recovering from his serious illness of March 1819 and it is likely that the greater part of the new novel was dictated to John Ballantyne and William Laidlaw, though the manuscript for most of Chapters 3 to 6 is extant in his own hand. Editions The first edition of ''Tales of my Landlord (Third Series)'', consisting of ''The Bride of Lammermoor'' and ''A Legend of Montrose'' (the title reluctantly accepted by Scott), was published by Archibald Constable in Edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bride Of Lammermoor
''The Bride of Lammermoor'' is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1819, one of the Waverley novels. The novel is set in the Lammermuir Hills of south-east Scotland, shortly before the Act of Union of 1707 (in the first edition), or shortly after the Act (in the 'Magnum' edition of 1830). It tells of a tragic love affair between young Lucy Ashton and her family's enemy Edgar Ravenswood. Scott indicated the plot was based on an actual incident. ''The Bride of Lammermoor'' and ''A Legend of Montrose'' were published together anonymously as the third of Scott's ''Tales of My Landlord'' series. The story is the basis for Donizetti's 1835 opera ''Lucia di Lammermoor''. Composition and sources It is not known exactly when Scott contracted to write ''Tales of my Landlord (Third Series)'', but he began composition at the beginning of September 1818, some two months after completing ''The Heart of Midlothian'' and finished it in late April or early May the following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waverley Novels
The Waverley Novels are a long series of novels by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832). For nearly a century, they were among the most popular and widely read novels in Europe. Because Scott did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827, the series takes its name from ''Waverley'', the first novel of the series, released in 1814. The later books bore the words "by the author of ''Waverley''" on their title pages. The ''Tales of my Landlord'' sub-series was not advertised as "by the author of ''Waverley''" and thus is not always included as part of the Waverley Novels series. Order of publication Chronological order, by setting *1097: ''Count Robert of Paris'' *1187–94: ''The Betrothed, The Talisman, Ivanhoe'' (3) *1307: ''Castle Dangerous'' *1396: ''The Fair Maid of Perth'' *1468–77: ''Quentin Durward, Anne of Geierstein'' (2) *1547–75: ''The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth, The Siege of Malta'' (4) *1616–18: ''The Fortunes of Nigel'' *1644–89: ''A Legend of Montr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels ''Ivanhoe'', ''Rob Roy (novel), Rob Roy'', ''Waverley (novel), Waverley'', ''Old Mortality'', ''The Heart of Mid-Lothian'' and ''The Bride of Lammermoor'', and the narrative poems ''The Lady of the Lake (poem), The Lady of the Lake'' and ''Marmion (poem), Marmion''. He had a major impact on European and American literature. As an advocate, judge and legal administrator by profession, he combined writing and editing with daily work as Clerk of Session and Sheriff court, Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire. He was prominent in Edinburgh's Tory (political faction), Tory establishment, active in the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, Highland Society, long a president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1820–1832), and a vice president of the Society o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June 21
Events Pre-1600 * 533 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily (approximate date). * 1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan. * 1529 – French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac. * 1582 – Sengoku period: Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the Japanese ''daimyōs'', is forced to commit suicide by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide. 1601–1900 *1621 – Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain. * 1734 – In Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is put to death, having been convicted of setting the fire that destroyed much of the city. * 1749 – Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded. *1768 – James Otis Jr. offend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and has been regarded as among the greatest of English poets. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narratives ''Don Juan'' and ''Childe Harold's Pilgrimage''; many of his shorter lyrics in ''Hebrew Melodies'' also became popular. Byron was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, later traveling extensively across Europe to places such as Italy, where he lived for seven years in Venice, Ravenna, and Pisa after he was forced to flee England due to lynching threats. During his stay in Italy, he frequently visited his friend and fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Later in life Byron joined the Greek War of Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire and died leading a campaign during that war, for which Greeks revere him as a folk hero. He died in 1824 at the age of 36 from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vampire Literature
Vampire literature covers the spectrum of literary work concerned principally with the subject of vampires. The literary vampire first appeared in 18th-century poetry, before becoming one of the stock figures of gothic fiction with the publication of Polidori's ''The Vampyre'' (1819), which was inspired by the life and legend of Lord Byron. Later influential works include the penny dreadful ''Varney the Vampire'' (1847); Sheridan Le Fanu's tale of a lesbian vampire, ''Carmilla'' (1872), and the most well known: Bram Stoker's '' Dracula'' (1897). Some authors created a more "sympathetic vampire", with ''Varney'' being the first, and Anne Rice's 1976 novel ''Interview with the Vampire'' as a more recent example. History 18th century Vampire fiction is rooted in the "vampire craze" of the 1720s and 1730s, which culminated in the somewhat bizarre official exhumations of suspected vampires Petar Blagojevich and Arnold Paole in Serbia under the Habsburg monarchy. One of the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Vampyre
"The Vampyre" is a short work of prose fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori taken from the story Lord Byron told as part of a contest among Polidori, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley. The same contest produced the novel ''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus''. ''The Vampyre'' is often viewed as the progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction. The work is described by Christopher Frayling as "the first story successfully to fuse the disparate elements of vampirism into a coherent literary genre." Characters * Lord Ruthven: a suave British nobleman, the vampire * Aubrey: a wealthy young gentleman, an orphan * Ianthe: a beautiful Greek woman Aubrey meets on his journeys with Ruthven * Aubrey's sister: who becomes engaged to the Earl of Marsden * Earl of Marsden: who is also Lord Ruthven Plot Aubrey meets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gothic Fiction
Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror in the 20th century, is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting. The name is a reference to Gothic architecture of the European Middle Ages, which was characteristic of the settings of early Gothic novels. The first work to call itself Gothic was Horace Walpole's 1764 novel ''The Castle of Otranto'', later subtitled "A Gothic Story". Subsequent 18th century contributors included Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Beckford (novelist), William Thomas Beckford, and Matthew Gregory Lewis, Matthew Lewis. The Gothic influence continued into the early 19th century, works by the Romantic poetry, Romantic poets, and novelists such as Mary Shelley, Charles Maturin, Walter Scott and E. T. A. Hoffmann frequently drew upon gothic motifs in their works. The early Victorian literature, Victorian period continued the use of gothic, in novels by Charles Dickens and the Brontë family, Brontë sisters, as well as works by the American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John William Polidori
John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was a British writer and physician. He is known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving Magic (supernatural), magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy ... fiction. His most successful work was the short story "The Vampyre" (1819), the first published Vampire literature, modern vampire story. Although the story was at first erroneously credited to Lord Byron, both Byron and Polidori affirmed that the author was Polidori. Family John William Polidori was born on 7 September 1795 in Westminster, the oldest son of Gaetano Polidori, an Italian political émigré scholar, and his wife Anna Maria Pierce, an English governess. He had three brothers and four sisters. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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