1820 in literature

The year 1820 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

 * Robert Chambers's publishing company publishes The Songs of Robert Burns.
 * November 20 - An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this story).

New books

 * James Fenimore Cooper - Precaution
 * Thomas Gaspey - Forty Years Ago
 * Robert Huish - Castle of Nielo
 * Francis Lathom - Italian Mysteries
 * Charles Maturin - Melmoth the Wanderer
 * Regina Marie Roche - The Munster Cottage Boy
 * Sir Walter Scott
 * The Abbot
 * The Monastery
 * Louisa Stanhope - The Crusaders
 * Rosalia St. Clair - The Highland Castle, and the Lowland Cottage
 * Sarah Wilkinson - The Spectre of Lanmere Abbey

New drama

 * William Thomas Moncrieff - The Lear of Private Life
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley - Prometheus Unbound

Poetry

 * Robert Burns - The Songs of Robert Burns
 * John Clare - Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery
 * John Keats - The Eve of St. Agnes; Lamia and Other Poems
 * Alphonse de Lamartine - Méditations poétiques
 * Aleksandr Pushkin - Ruslan and Ludmila
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley - To a Skylark

Non-fiction

 * Thomas Brown - Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind
 * Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Elements of the Philosophy of Right
 * John George Hoffman - Pow-Wows; or, Long Lost Friend
 * Charles Lamb - Essays of Elia
 * Thomas Malthus - Principles of Political Economy
 * Charles Mills -History of the Crusades for the Recovery and Possession of the Holy Land
 * Robert Southey - Life of Wesley

Births

 * January 17 - Anne Brontë, author  (+  1849)
 * March 30 - Anna Sewell, author  (+  1878)
 * April 26 - Alice Cary, American poet and short-story writer
 * November 23 - Afanasy Fet, Russian poet, essayist and short-story writer (+ 1892)
 * November 28 - Friedrich Engels, socialist writer (+  1895)

Deaths

 * November 12 - William Hayley, biographer of William Cowper

Awards


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