1804 in literature

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The year 1804 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

• John Keats' father dies from a fractured skull after falling from his horse.
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge re-locates to Malta.
• James Mill writes a pamphlet about the corn trade.

New books

• Francis Clifford^{[disambiguation needed ]} - The Ruins of Tivoli
• Sophie Ristaud Cottin - Malvina
• Maria Edgeworth - Popular Tales
• 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
• Anna Maria Porter - The Lake of Killarney
• Etienne Senancour - Oberman
• Sarah Wilkinson - The Knights of Calatrava
• Mary Julia Young - The Mother and Daughter

New drama

• Friedrich von Schiller - Wilhelm Tell

Poetry

• William Blake - Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
• William Lisle Bowles - The Spirit of Discovery

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, writer († 1876)
• July 4 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer († 1864)
• September 8 - Eduard Mörike, poet († 1875)
• November 6 - Benjamin Hall Kennedy, classical scholar († 1880)
• December 10 - Eugène Sue, novelist († 1857)
• December 21 - Benjamin Disraeli, writer († 1881)

Deaths

• January 4 - Charlotte Lennox, English novelist & playwright
• January 11 - James Tytler, editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica
• February 6 - Joseph Priestley, English natural philosopher and theologian (born 1733)
• February 12 - Immanuel Kant
• March 21 - Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien
• April 3 - Jędrzej Kitowicz, historian and diarist
• April 27 - Jonathan Boucher, philologist
• May 3 - Celestyn Czaplic, Polish poet and politician
• November 5 - Betje Wolff, novelist
• November 23 - Richard Graves, poet and novelist
• December 9 - Wilhelm Abraham Teller, theologian
• December - John Boydell, publisher
• date unknown
  • Samuel Ayscough, librarian and indexer
  • Jean-Louis de Lolme, political theorist

Awards