1819 in literature

The year 1819 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

 * In England, Richard Carlile (1790–1843) is convicted of blasphemy and sent to prison for publishing The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine (1737–1809).
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley has his annus mirabilis, one of his most productive years
 * Washington Irving begins publishing The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon in seven installments—the first of which includes "Rip Van Winkle" and the last of which includes "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" -- simultaneously in the United States and England.

New books

 * Edward Ball - The Black Robber
 * Ann Hatton - The Oath of Vengeance
 * Washington Irving - The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
 * John William Polidori - The Vampyre
 * Sir Walter Scott
 * The Bride of Lammermoor
 * Ivanhoe
 * A Legend of Montrose

New drama

 * Alessandro Manzoni - Il Conte di Carmagnola
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Cenci, a Tragedy, in Five Acts

Poetry

 * Lord Byron - Mazeppa, containing "Fragment of a Novel" as a supplement
 * Thomas Campbell - Specimens of the British Poets
 * Barry Cornwall - Dramatic Scenes and other Poems
 * John Keats - Odes
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley
 * The Cenci, a Tragedy, in Five Acts
 * Ode to the West Wind
 * The Masque of Anarchy
 * Men of England
 * England in 1819
 * The Witch of Atlas
 * Julian and Maddalo

Non-fiction

 * Jakob Grimm - German Grammar
 * Georg Hermes - Philosophical Introduction to Christian Theology
 * Richard Colt Hoare - A Classical Tour through Italy and Sicily
 * Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley - A Philosophical View of Reform (published in 1920)

Births

 * January 1 - Arthur Hugh Clough, poet (d. 1861)
 * February 22 - James Russell Lowell, poet (d. 1891)
 * May 31 - Walt Whitman, poet (d. 1892)
 * August 1 - Herman Melville (d. 1891)
 * November 22 - George Eliot (d. 1880)
 * December 26 - E. D. E. N. Southworth, writer (d. 1899)
 * December 30 - Theodor Fontane (d. 1898)

Deaths

 * January 12 - André Morellet, philosophe
 * March 23 - August von Kotzebue, dramatist
 * April 17 - William Holland, diarist
 * November 2 - Théodore-Pierre Bertin, writer and pioneer of shorthand
 * November 23 - Quintin Craufurd, historian


 * Abu Rumi - Ethiopian translator of the Bible (born c. 1750)