May 7 –
Percy Bysshe Shelley's verse drama The Cenci, A Tragedy, in Five Acts, written and printed in Italy in
1819, is first played privately in England, sponsored by the Shelley Society, at the Grand Theatre,
Islington, London, before an audience that includes
Robert Browning (for whose birthday it is held),
George Bernard Shaw and
Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde's review of it in Dramatic Review appears on May 15.[2]
September 18 – The "
Symbolist Manifesto" (Le Symbolisme) is placed in the French newspaper Le Figaro by a Greek-born poet
Jean Moréas, who calls
Symbolism hostile to "plain meanings, declamations, false sentimentality and matter-of-fact description," and intended to "clothe the Ideal in a perceptible form" whose "goal was not in itself, but whose sole purpose was to express the Ideal."
Fall – Clifford Barnes is taken on as a clerk at the Manhattan book store Arthur Hinds & Co., which will become
Barnes & Noble.[3]
May 15 –
Emily Dickinson dies aged 55 of
Bright's disease at the family home in
Amherst, Massachusetts, with fewer than a dozen of her 1,800 poems published. She is buried under the self-penned epitaph "Called Back". After publication of a first collection of her verse in
1890, she will be seen with
Walt Whitman as one of the two quintessential nineteenth-century
American poets.
unknown dates
A Japanese adaptation of
Shakespeare's play Hamlet as Hamuretto Yamato Nishiki-e is serialized in the newspaper Tokyo Eiri Shimbun.[4]
^Turner, Betty N. (2006). The Noble Legacy: The Story of Gilbert Clifford Noble, Cofounder of the Barnes & Noble and Noble & Noble Book Companies. iUniverse. p. 65.
ISBN9780595374786.
^Van Gemert, Lia (2011). Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875: A Bilingual Anthology. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. p. 528.
ISBN978-9-08964-129-8.
^Dickinson, Emily (1995). Emily Dickinson's open folios: scenes of reading, surfaces of writing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. p. 42.
ISBN9780472105861.
May 7 –
Percy Bysshe Shelley's verse drama The Cenci, A Tragedy, in Five Acts, written and printed in Italy in
1819, is first played privately in England, sponsored by the Shelley Society, at the Grand Theatre,
Islington, London, before an audience that includes
Robert Browning (for whose birthday it is held),
George Bernard Shaw and
Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde's review of it in Dramatic Review appears on May 15.[2]
September 18 – The "
Symbolist Manifesto" (Le Symbolisme) is placed in the French newspaper Le Figaro by a Greek-born poet
Jean Moréas, who calls
Symbolism hostile to "plain meanings, declamations, false sentimentality and matter-of-fact description," and intended to "clothe the Ideal in a perceptible form" whose "goal was not in itself, but whose sole purpose was to express the Ideal."
Fall – Clifford Barnes is taken on as a clerk at the Manhattan book store Arthur Hinds & Co., which will become
Barnes & Noble.[3]
May 15 –
Emily Dickinson dies aged 55 of
Bright's disease at the family home in
Amherst, Massachusetts, with fewer than a dozen of her 1,800 poems published. She is buried under the self-penned epitaph "Called Back". After publication of a first collection of her verse in
1890, she will be seen with
Walt Whitman as one of the two quintessential nineteenth-century
American poets.
unknown dates
A Japanese adaptation of
Shakespeare's play Hamlet as Hamuretto Yamato Nishiki-e is serialized in the newspaper Tokyo Eiri Shimbun.[4]
^Turner, Betty N. (2006). The Noble Legacy: The Story of Gilbert Clifford Noble, Cofounder of the Barnes & Noble and Noble & Noble Book Companies. iUniverse. p. 65.
ISBN9780595374786.
^Van Gemert, Lia (2011). Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875: A Bilingual Anthology. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. p. 528.
ISBN978-9-08964-129-8.
^Dickinson, Emily (1995). Emily Dickinson's open folios: scenes of reading, surfaces of writing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. p. 42.
ISBN9780472105861.