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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1812. ==Events== *January 2 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge's lecture on ''Hamlet'' is given as part of a series of lectures on drama and Shakespeare; it has influenced Hamlet studies ever since. *January 15 – Lord Byron takes his seat in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. *March 20 – First two cantos of Lord Byron's poem ''Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'' are published by John Murray in London. This sells out in five days, giving rise to Byron's comment "I awoke one morning and found myself famous". *May–July – Auction in London of the library of the Duke of Roxburghe (d. 1804). On June 17 a presumed first edition of Boccaccio's ''Decameron'', printed by Christopher Valdarfer of Venice in 1471, is sold to the Marquis of Blandford for £2,260, the highest price ever given for a book at this time; this is followed by a social meeting of bibliophiles under the chairmanship of 2nd Earl Spencer, the origin of the Roxburghe Club, formed by Thomas Frognall Dibdin. *June 24 to December 14 – French invasion of Russia, which will form the climax of Tolstoy's 1869 novel ''War and Peace''. *October 10 – The rebuilt Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London opens. *December 9–20 – Leigh Hunt is tried and convicted of libel for calling the Prince Regent "a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace" in ''The Examiner'' on March 22.〔 〕 *December 26 – Frederick Marryat promoted to lieutenant after distinguished service at sea in the War of 1812. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1812 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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