1837 in literature

The year 1837 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

 * The Little, Brown and Company publishing house opens its doors.
 * First publication of the The United States Magazine and Democratic Review.

New books

 * William Harrison Ainsworth -Crichton
 * Hans Christian Andersen - Only a Fiddler
 * Honoré de Balzac
 * Cesar Birotteau
 * Lost Illusions
 * Robert Montgomery Bird - Nick of the Woods
 * Sara Coleridge - Phantasmion
 * Benjamin Disraeli
 * Henrietta Temple
 * Venetia
 * Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert du Gaspé -L'influence d'un livre
 * Jeremias Gotthelf - Bauernspiegel
 * Washington Irving - ''The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
 * Julia Kavanagh - Adele
 * Frederick Marryat - Snarleyyow
 * Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Live and Let Live
 * Mary Shelley - Falkner

New short stories

 * Nathaniel Hawthorne - Twice-Told Tales
 * Victor Séjour - Le Mulâtre, the earliest known work of African-American fiction

New drama

 * Joanna Baillie - The Separation

Poetry

 * José de Espronceda - El estudiante de Salamanca
 * Alphonse de Lamartine - Chute d'un ange

Non-fiction

 * Bernard Bolzano - The Philosophy of Logic
 * Thomas Carlyle - The French Revolution, A History
 * Washington Irving - The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
 * Harriet Martineau - Society in America
 * William H. Prescott - The History of Ferdinand and Isabella

Births

 * January 23 - Agnes Maule Machar, novelist (d. 1927)
 * March 1
 * Ion Creangă, Romanian writer (d. 1889)
 * William Dean Howells, writer  (d. 1920)
 * March 6 - Sully Prudhomme, poet (d. 1907)
 * April 5 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (d. 1909)
 * October 15 - Leo Königsberger, historian of science (d. 1921)
 * December 10 - Edward Eggleston, novelist and historian (d. 1902)

Deaths

 * January 29 - Aleksandr Pushkin, poet (b. 1799) (killed in a duel)
 * February 12 - Ludwig Börne, political writer and satirist (b. 1786)
 * March 9 - Alexandru Hrisoverghi, Romanian-language writer and translator (b. 1811)
 * June 14 - Giacomo Leopardi, poet (b. 1798) (cholera)
 * September 21 - Georg Ludolf Dissen, philologist (b. 1784)
 * October 19 - Hendrik Doeff, travel writer (b. 1764)
 * date unknown
 * Lukijan Mušicki, Serbian poet (b. 1777)
 * Mary Robinson, the "Maid of Buttermere" (b. 1778)