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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1818. ==Events== *January 1 - Mary Shelley's novel ''Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus'' is first published, anonymously, in London. *January 8 - Lord Byron, in Venice, sends the final part of ''Childe Harold'' to his publisher.〔(Letter CCCIV. )〕 *January 11 - Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "Ozymandias" is published in Leigh Hunt's weekly ''The Examiner'' (London; p. 24) under the pen name 'Glirastes'; Horace Smith's contribution to the same informal sonnet-writing competition, "On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below" is published on February 1 under his initials. *January - Samuel Taylor Coleridge delivers a series of lectures on poetry, drama and philosophy, beginning with Shakespeare's ''Hamlet''. *March 12 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife Mary and her stepsister Claire Clairmont leave England for Italy, where they intend to take Claire's illegitimate child Alba to her father, Lord Byron. *April 11 - John Keats and Samuel Taylor Coleridge go for a walk on Hampstead Heath. In a letter to his brother George, Keats writes that they talked about "a thousand things,... nightingales, poetry, poetical sensation, metaphysics." *June–August - Keats and his friend Charles Armitage Brown make a walking tour of Scotland (including a visit to Burns Cottage), Ireland and the English Lake District. *July * *Thomas De Quincey begins a 16-month term as editor of the newly established weekly newspaper ''The Westmorland Gazette'', published at Kendal in the English Lake District. * *The Stephenson Blake type foundry begins operation in Sheffield, England. *July 18 - Walter Scott's historical novel ''The Heart of Midlothian'' is published (as Tales of My Landlord, 2nd series, by 'Jedediah Cleishbotham', in 4 volumes); a shipload from the Ballantyne publishing business is sent from Edinburgh to London. *September 19 - Lord Byron writes to Thomas Moore, telling him he has completed the first Canto of ''Don Juan''.〔(Letter CCCXXII. )〕 *November - Fanny Brawne meets John Keats for the first time, at the home of Charles Armitage Brown. *The National Library of Iceland is established as the ''Íslands stiftisbókasafn'' at the instigation of Danish antiquarian Carl Christian Rafn and the Icelandic Literary Society. *The Old Vic is founded as the Royal Coburg Theatre in South London by James King, Daniel Dunn and John T. Serres. 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「1818 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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