1791 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1791.

Events

May 16 – James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is published^[1] in 2 volumes in London on the 28th anniversary of their first meeting.
Chinese writer and publisher Gao E and his partner Cheng Weiyan claim to have discovered Cao Xueqin's lost novel Dream of the Red Chamber.
Scottish poet and exciseman Robert Burns moves to Dumfries.
English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge begins his course at Jesus College, Cambridge, marking his transfer from Christ's Hospital school by composition of the poem "On Quitting School".^[2]

January 15 – Franz Grillparzer, Austrian dramatist (died 1872)
March 15 – Charles Knight, English publisher and author (died 1873)
July 5 – Samuel Bailey, English philosopher and author (died 1870)
August 17 – Richard Lalor Sheil, Irish politician, author and orator (died 1851)
September 21 – István Széchenyi, Hungarian politician, writer and diarist (died 1860)
October 26 – Charles Sprague, American poet and banker (died 1875)
December 24 – Eugène Scribe, French dramatist (died 1861)

January 11 – William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist and poet (born 1717)
March 2 – John Wesley, English preacher and religious writer (born 1703)
April 2 – Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, French revolutionary and writer (born 1749)
April 19 – Richard Price, Welsh moral philosopher and preacher (born 1723)
June 12 – Francis Grose, English antiquary and lexicographer (born c. 1730)
June 30 – Jean-Baptiste Descamps, French writer and painter (born 1714)
July 2 – Søren Abildgaard, Danish naturalist and writer (born 1718)
November 22 – Johann Silberschlag, German theologian (born 1721)

Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus (1979) is based on circumstances surrounding the Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 232–233. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ Published in his Poetical Works (1834).

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