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July 21, 1796 |
Robert Burns dies in Dumfries, Dumfriesshire. |
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Aug 21, 1796 |
William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft become lovers. |
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Sept 1796 |
Ireland: United Irish leaders arrested in Belfast. |
*Ireland |
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Sept 19, 1796 |
Hartley Coleridge born (see Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight"). |
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Dec 1796 |
Coleridge moves to Nether Stowey. |
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Dec 1796 |
Failed attempt by French (with Wolfe Tone) to invade Ireland at Bantry Bay, West Cork. |
*French Revolution
*Ireland |
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1797 |
Napoleon negotiates treaty with Austria |
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1797 |
Commons rejects abolition. The Dolben act is renewed. A West Indian-sponsored parliamentary resolution for colonial amelioration of slavery is passed. Trinidad is captured; the British withdraw troops from the West Indies (they are pushed from St. Domingue by Tousaint L'Ouverture). |
*Abolition |
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1797 |
Tax on English newspapers (including cheap, topical journals) is increased to repress radical publications. |
*Radicalism |
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1797 |
W. Wordsworth's intimacy with Coleridge spurs poetic activity (annus mirabilis). |
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1797 |
Coleridge drafts Osorio which remains unpublished until revised 1812 as Remorse. |
*Romantic Drama |
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1797 |
Friedrich von Schlegel, Critical Fragments (in the journal Lyceum). |
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1797 |
Schelling, Ideas on the Philosophy of Nature. |
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1797 |
Hölderlin, Hyperion I. |
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1797 |
A new edition of Edward Young's Night Thoughts with pictures engraved by William Blake |
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1797 |
Robert Southey, Letters Written . . . in Spain and Portugal. |
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1797 |
Ann Radcliffe, The Italian. |
*The Gothic |
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1797 |
Mary Hays writes tribute to Mary Wollstonecraft in Monthly Magazine. |
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1797 |
Matilda Bentham, Elegies and Other Small Poems. |
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1797 |
William Godwin, "Of History and Romance." |
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1797 |
Beethoven's Op. 5 and Op. 46 (Adelaide) are published. |
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1797 |
Charlotte Smith, Volume II of Elegiac Sonnets. In response to critics such as Anna Seward who called her sonnets "a perpetual dun on pity," she responds in her Preface, "I am unhappily exemt from the suspicion of feigning sorrow," placing responsibility for her sorrows on those causing it -- the lawyers depriving her children of finances adequate to their needs. |
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Feb 1797 |
Bank of England suspends cash payments. |
*Economics |
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Mar 1797 |
W. Wordsworth visits Coleridge at Nether Stowey. |
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Mar 1797 |
William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft marry. |
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