Literary notes about September (AI summary)
In literature, September is often used as a marker of time that signals both historical context and the turning of seasons. Authors use it to denote precise dates in memoirs, letters, and official documents—for instance, Napoleon’s correspondence and military dispatches frequently note “September” to anchor significant events ([1], [2], [3]). At the same time, September carries a poetic quality, evoking the fading heat of summer and the onset of autumn, as seen in evocative descriptions that set the mood for transformation or melancholy ([4], [5]). It appears not only as a chronological reference in works like those of Hawthorne and Sherman's memoirs ([6], [7], [8]), but also as a broader metaphor for change, conveying both the literal progression of time and the symbolic ripening or decay inherent in life ([9], [10]). Thus, in both historical records and literary narratives, September serves as a versatile literary device that bridges the factual with the reflective.
- Krems, September 9, 1809.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 by Emperor of the French Napoleon I - September 16th.—And at La Favorite, with like result.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 by Emperor of the French Napoleon I - H. BENCRAFT JOLY, H.B.M. Vice-Consulate, Macao, 1st September, 1891.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao - "The heat is over by the middle of September, and after the autumnal equinox, there are a few days of what is best described as a dense dry fog.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Marco Polo and da Pisa Rusticiano - WHICH IS SOMEWHAT SURPRISING Pollyanna entered school in September.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter - IN September of the year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed "The Scarlet Letter," he began "The House of the Seven Gables."
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne - Davis's speech at Palmetto, of September 26th, I was more positive in my conviction, but was in doubt as to the time and manner.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman - HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, WASHINGTON, September 16, 1864.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman - The poor Prisoners in the Luxembourg hear the rumour; tremble for a new September.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - But all September passed without letters or visits.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
