1807 in literature

The year 1807 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

 * June 24 - The Tout-Paris assists in the first production of the Panorama de Momus, a vaudeville by Marc-Antoine Désaugiers.
 * On a visit to Dresden, Heinrich von Kleist is arrested by the French as a spy, and kept a prisoner for six months at Châlons-sur-Marne.
 * John Wiley & Sons book publishing company founded.
 * Washington Irving launches the satirical magazine Salmagundi.

New books

 * Harriet Butler - Count Eugenio
 * Harriet Corp - An Antidote to the Miseries of Human Life
 * Charlotte Dacre - The Libertine
 * Sophia Frances - Constance de Lindensdorf
 * Elizabeth Gunning - The Orphans of Snowdon
 * Rachel Hunter -Family Annals
 * William Henry Ireland - The Catholic
 * Charles Lamb & Mary Lamb - Tales from Shakespeare
 * Matthew Gregory Lewis - The Wood Daemon
 * Charles Maturin - The Fatal Revenge
 * Mary Meeke - Julien
 * Theodore Melville - The Benevolent Monk
 * Edward Montague
 * The Demon of Sicily
 * Legends of a Nunnery
 * Henrietta Rouviere Mosse - A Peep at our Ancestors
 * Mary Pilkington - Ellen: Heiress of the Castle
 * Anna Maria Porter - The Hungarian Brothers
 * Regina Marie Roche - The Discarded Son
 * Anne Louise Germaine de Stael -Corinne
 * Cathérine F. de St-Venant - Léopold de Circé
 * Sarah Wilkinson
 * The Castle Spectre
 * The Fugitive Countess
 * Mary Julia Young - A Summer at Brighton

New drama

 * Giovanni Giraud - Gelosie per equivoco

Poetry

 * James Hogg - The Mountain Bard
 * William Wordsworth - Poems in Two Volumes, including Ode on the Intimations of Immortality

Non-fiction

 * Antoine Alexandre Barbier - Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes
 * Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -The Phenomenology of Spirit
 * Gottlieb Hufeland - New Foundations of Political Economy
 * Alexander von Humboldt - Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du nouveau continent 1799-1804
 * Thomas Paine - The Age of Reason

Births

 * February 27 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (d. 1882)
 * June 30 - Friedrich Theodor Vischer, German author (d. 1887)
 * September 9 - Richard Chenevix Trench, poet (d. 1886)
 * October 23 - Baroness Tautphoeus, novelist (d. 1893)
 * October 30 - Christopher Wordsworth, Biblical editor and commentator, nephew of William Wordsworth (d. 1885)
 * November 16 - Jónas Hallgrímsson, Icelandic author (d. 1845)

Deaths

 * January 5 - Isaac Reed, Shakespearean editor (b. 1742)
 * February 18 - Sophie von La Roche, novelist (b. 1730)
 * June 14 - Louis Bruyas, dramatist and actor (b. 1738)
 * July 24 - John Christopher Kunze, theologian (b. 1744)
 * August 1 - John Walker, lexicographer (b. 1732)
 * December 19 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, memoirist and literary correspondent (b. 1723)
 * December 21 - John Newton, songwriter ("Amazing Grace") (b. 1725)