1827 in literature

The year 1827 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

 * Samuel G. Goodrich (1793–1860) publishes the first of the "Peter Parley" juvenile novels that would continue until 1860.
 * Ludwig Tieck's Berlin production of A Midsummer Night's Dream is the first to feature the musical score composed by Felix Mendelssohn.
 * Nathaniel Willis Senior begins publishing a new magazine for children, The Youth's Companion. One of the most enduring of its type, the magazine continued until 1929.

Fiction

 * James Fenimore Cooper
 * The Prairie
 * The Red Rover
 * Benjamin Disraeli - Vivian Grey
 * Catherine Gore
 * The Lettre de Cachet
 * The Reign of Terror
 * Wilhelm Hauff - Jud Süß
 * Christian Isobel Johnstone - Elizabeth de Bruce
 * Hannah Maria Jones – Rosaline Woodbridge
 * Sir Thomas Dick Lauder - The Wolf of Badenoch
 * Alessandro Manzoni - I Promessi sposi (The Betrothed)
 * Henrietta Rouviere Mosse - Intrigue
 * Sydney Owenson - The O'Briens and The O'Flaherties
 * Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Hope Leslie
 * Horatio Smith – Reuben Aspley

Non-fiction

 * Henry Hallam - The Constitutional History of England
 * John Keble - The Christian Year
 * Lady Louisa Stuart - Memoir of Lady Mary Coke

New drama

 * Christian Dietrich Grabbe - Herzog Theodor von Gotland
 * Victor Hugo - Cromwell

Poetry

 * Heinrich Heine - Buch der Lieder ("Book of Songs"
 * Giacomo Leopardi - Operette Morali
 * Robert Pollok - The Course of Time
 * Tamerlane and Other Poems - written by "A Bostonian", revealed to be Edgar Allan Poe, his first poetry collection

Births

 * April 10 - Lewis Wallace (d. 1905)
 * June 12 - Johanna Spyri (d. 1901)

Deaths

 * February 18 - Joseph Heinrich Aloysius Gügler, Swiss philosopher and theologian (b. 1782)
 * May 28 - William James, naval historian (b. 1780)
 * July 3 - David Davis (Castellhywel), Welsh minister and poet (b. 1745)
 * July 22 - Ludwig Heinrich von Jakob, economist (b. 1759)
 * August 12 - William Blake, poet and artist (b. 1757)
 * September 15 - Robert Pollok, Scottish poet (b. c. 1798)
 * October 10 - Ugo Foscolo, dramatist
 * November - Alethea Lewis, English novelist (b. 1749)
 * November 18 - Wilhelm Hauff, poet and novelist
 * December 26 - Feliks Jarońskij, Polish philosopher (b. 1777)