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This article presents a lists of the literary events and publications in 1823. ==Events== *February 7 - The Bannatyne Club is inaugurated by Sir Walter Scott and others as a text publication society to print by subscription rare texts relating to the history, literature and traditions of Scotland. *October - Thomas De Quincey's classic essay ''On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth'' appears in this month's issue of ''The London Magazine''. *December - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, suffering from opium addiction, takes up residence at No. 3, The Grove, Highgate, a house owned by Dr James Gillman. *December 23 - Clement Clarke Moore's poem, ''A Visit from St. Nicholas'' is published anonymously in the Troy, New York, ''Sentinel'', and introduces the character named "Santa Claus". *''date unknown'' * *The discovery of the First Quarto edition of 1603 of William Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'' (a so-called "bad quarto"), by Sir Henry Bunbury, causes great excitement within the scholarly community. * *Publication in London by C. Baldwyn of ''German Popular Stories. Translated from the Kinder und Haus Märchen collected by MM. Grimm from Oral Tradition'', the first English translation of ''Grimms' Fairy Tales''. The anonymous translations were made by two lawyers, Edgar Taylor and David Jardine, and illustrations provided by George Cruikshank, who is beginning to focus on this medium. 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「1823 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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