1823 in literature
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The year 1823 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

• Clement Clarke Moore's poem, A Visit from St. Nicholas introduces the character named "Santa Claus".
• The discovery of the First Quarto edition of 1603 of William Shakespeare's Hamlet (a so-called "bad quarto") causes great excitement within the scholarly community.

New books

• James Fenimore Cooper - The Pioneers
• Claire de Duras - Ourika
• John Galt - The Entail
• Thomas Gaspey - Monks of Leadenhead
• Sarah Green - The Nieces
• Jane Harvey - Mountalyth
• William Hazlitt - Liber Amoris
• Grace Kennedy – Father Clement
• Caroline Lamb - Ada Reis
• Mary Meeke - What Shall Be, Shall Be
• John Neal – Logan
• Quintin Poyney - The Wizard Priest and the Witch
• Sir Walter Scott - Quentin Durward
• Mary Shelley - Valperga
• John Wilson - The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay

New drama

• Eugène Scribe - Le Menteur Veridique
• Eugène Scribe - The Heiress (L'Héritière) for the Théâtre du Gymnase
• Franz Grillparzer - The Fortune and Fall of King Ottokar (König Ottokars Glück und Ende)

Poetry

• Alphonse de Lamartine - Nouvelles méditations poétiques
• Percy Bysshe Shelley - Posthumous Poems

Non-fiction

• John Franklin - Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea
• Louis Thiers - Histoire de la Révolution française

Births

• January 1 - Sándor Petőfi, poet (m. 1849)
• March 20 - Ned Buntline, publisher, writer, (+ 1886)
• August 13 - Goldwin Smith, historian and journalist

Deaths

• February 7 - Ann Radcliffe, novelist (born 1764)
• February 21 - Charles Wolfe, poet (born 1791)
• April 10 - Karl Leonhard Reinhold, philosopher (born 1757)
• August 19 - Robert Bloomfield, poet (born 1766)
• August 20 - Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, encyclopedia publisher and editor (born 1772)
• September 11 - David Ricardo, political economist (born 1772)

Awards