1799 - Literature

Literature

Fiction: Ormond, or The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown; Hyperion by German poet-novelist (Johann Christian) Friedrich Hölderlin, 29, who has been helped by Frankfurt banker's wife Susette Gontard (he tutored her children and she fell in love with him). The first volume appeared 2 years ago.

Poetry: "The Pleasures of Hope" by Scottish poet Thomas Campbell, 21: "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,/ And robes the mountain in its azure hue."