1804 in literature

The year 1804 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

 * John Keats' father dies from a fractured skull after falling from his horse.
 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge re-locates to Malta.
 * James Mill writes a pamphlet about the corn trade.

New books

 * Francis Clifford - The Ruins of Tivoli
 * Sophie Ristaud Cottin - Malvina
 * Maria Edgeworth - Popular Tales
 * Rachel Hunter -The Unexpected Legacy
 * William Henry Ireland - The Sepulchral Summons
 * Elizabeth Lefanu - The India Voyage
 * Mary Meeke
 * Amazement
 * The Nine Days' Wonder
 * Henrietta Rouviere Mosse - Lussington Abbey
 * Mary A. Neri - The Eve of San-Pietro
 * Amelia Opie - Adeline Mowbray
 * Anna Maria Porter - The Lake of Killarney
 * Etienne Senancour - Oberman
 * Sarah Wilkinson - The Knights of Calatrava
 * Mary Julia Young - The Mother and Daughter

New drama

 * Friedrich von Schiller - Wilhelm Tell

Poetry

 * William Blake - Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
 * William Lisle Bowles - The Spirit of Discovery

Non-fiction

 * Thomas Brown -Inquiry into the Relation of Cause and Effect
 * John Wilson Croker - Familiar Epistles to J. F. Jones, Esquire, on the State of the Irish Stage
 * Jakob Friedrich Fries - System der Philosophie als evidente Wissenschaft
 * Jacques Labillardière - Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen
 * James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale - Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth

Births

 * July 1 - George Sand, writer († 1876)
 * July 4 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer († 1864)
 * September 8 - Eduard Mörike, poet († 1875)
 * November 6 - Benjamin Hall Kennedy, classical scholar († 1880)
 * December 10 - Eugène Sue, novelist († 1857)
 * December 21 - Benjamin Disraeli, writer († 1881)

Deaths

 * January 4 - Charlotte Lennox, English novelist & playwright
 * January 11 - James Tytler, editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica
 * February 6 - Joseph Priestley, English natural philosopher and theologian (born 1733)
 * February 12 - Immanuel Kant
 * April 3 - Jędrzej Kitowicz, historian and diarist
 * April 27 - Jonathan Boucher, philologist
 * May 3 - Celestyn Czaplic, Polish poet and politician
 * November 5 - Betje Wolff, novelist
 * November 23 - Richard Graves, poet and novelist
 * December 9 - Wilhelm Abraham Teller, theologian
 * December - John Boydell, publisher
 * date unknown
 * Samuel Ayscough, librarian and indexer
 * Jean-Louis de Lolme, political theorist