1816 in literature

The year 1816 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

 * John Keats composes the poem, Sleep and Poetry, while staying at the house of his friend, Leigh Hunt.

New books

 * Thomas Ashe - The Soldier of Fortune
 * Benjamin Constant - Adolphe
 * Selina Davenport - The Original of the Miniature
 * Stéphanie Félicité, Comtesse de Genlis - Jane of France
 * Jane Harvey - Brougham Castle
 * Ann Hatton - Chronicles of an Illustrious House
 * Barbara Hofland - The Maid of Moscow
 * John Hoyland (writer) - English Quaker
 * Leigh Hunt - The Story of Rimini
 * Henry Gally Knight - Ilderim, a Syrian Tale
 * Caroline Lamb - Glenarvon
 * Agnes Lancaster - The Abbess of Valtiera
 * José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi - The Mangy Parrot
 * Emma Parker - Self-deception
 * David W. Paynter - Godfrey Ranger
 * Thomas Love Peacock - Headlong Hall
 * Henrietta Roviere - Craig-Melrose Priory
 * Sir Walter Scott
 * The Antiquary
 * The Black Dwarf
 * Old Mortality
 * Ann Sullivan - Owen Castle
 * Sophia F.Ziegenhirt - The Orphan of Tintern Abbey

New drama

 * Charles Maturin - Bertram; or The Castle of St. Aldobrand

Poetry

 * Lord Byron - The Siege of Corinth
 * Lord Byron - Prometheus
 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan (written in 1797)
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley - Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley - Mont Blanc

Non-fiction

 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Statesman's Manual
 * Nikolai Karamzin - History of the Russian Empire

Births

 * April 21 - Charlotte Brontë, novelist and poet (d. 1855)
 * June - Grace Aguilar, novelist (d. 1847)
 * September 20 - Fredrik August Dahlgren, dramatist and songwriter (d. 1895)
 * November 1 - Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer, novelist, dramatist and travel writer (d. 1877)

Deaths

 * February 22 - Adam Ferguson, philosopher
 * July 7 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright and politician (b. 1751)