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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of literature during 1814. ==Events== *January 14 (January 2 O.S.) - The Imperial Public Library in Saint Petersburg opens to the public. *January 26 - Actor Edmund Kean makes his London début in an adult leading rôle as Shylock at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. *February 1 - Lord Byron's semi-autobiographical tale in verse ''The Corsair'' is published by John Murray in London and sells 10,000 copies on this day and over 25,000 in the first month, going through seven editions. His ''Lara'' sells 6,000 copies on publication in the summer. Walter Scott is to say of Byron's poetry "He beat me out of the field in description of the stronger passions and in deep-seated knowledge of the human heart." *July 7 - Walter Scott's ''Waverley'', his first prose fiction and one of the first significant historical novels in English, is published anonymously by Archibald Constable in Edinburgh, selling out in two days. *July 28–September 13 - English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley abandons his pregnant wife and runs away with the 16-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, accompanied by her stepsister Jane Clairmont (also 16), to France and Switzerland.〔''History of a Six Weeks' Tour''.〕 *September 12–15 - Battle of Baltimore (War of 1812): American lawyer Francis Scott Key, witnessing the bombardment of Baltimore, Maryland, from a British ship, writes "Defence of Fort McHenry". His brother-in-law arranges to have the poem published in a broadside with a recommended tune on September 17 and on September 20, both the ''Baltimore Patriot'' and ''The American'' print it; the song quickly becomes popular, with seventeen newspapers from Georgia to New Hampshire reproducing it. In 1931 as "The Star-Spangled Banner" it is officially adopted at the national anthem of the United States. *November 29 - In London, ''The Times'' newspaper is printed using a revolutionary steam press for the first time at a rate of 1100 copies per hour. *Late - Publication of the Brothers Grimm's ''Grimms' Fairy Tales'', first edition, second volume (dated 1815). *The earliest known printed Arabic language version of ''One Thousand and One Nights'' begins publication in Calcutta by the British East India Company. 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「1814 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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