This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1812.
Events
January 2 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge's lecture on Hamlet is given as part of a series of lectures on drama and Shakespeare; it has influenced Hamlet studies ever since.[1]
March 20 – First two cantos of Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage are published in London by John Murray.[2] This sells out in five days, giving rise to Byron's comment "I awoke one morning and found myself famous."[3]
^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.