1845 in literature

The year 1845 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

 * April 24 - Alfred de Musset and Honoré de Balzac are awarded the Légion d'honneur.
 * Robert Browning begins his correspondence with his future wife, Elizabeth Barrett.
 * Charlotte Cushman plays Romeo to her sister Susan's Juliet, in a production of Romeo and Juliet at the Haymarket Theatre.
 * The essays in Thomas de Quincey's Suspiria de Profundis appear in Blackwood's Magazine in the Spring and Summer.

New books

 * James Fenimore Cooper
 * The Chainbearer
 * Satanstoe
 * Charles Dickens - The Cricket on the Hearth
 * Benjamin Disraeli - Sybil
 * Fyodor Dostoevsky - Poor Folk
 * Alexandre Dumas, père
 * The Corsican Brothers
 * Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge
 * La Reine Margot
 * The Regent's Daughter
 * Twenty Years After
 * Catherine Gore - The Snowstorm: A Christmas Story
 * Nathaniel Hawthorne - P.'s Correspondence
 * Geraldine Jewsbury - Zoe, A History of Two Lives
 * Joaquim Manuel de Macedo - O moço loiro
 * Frederick Marryat - The Mission, or Scenes in Africa
 * Prosper Mérimée - Carmen
 * Robert Smith Surtees - Hillingdon Hall

New drama

 * Henrik Hertz - King René's Daughter

Poetry

 * Edgar Allan Poe - "The Raven"

Non-fiction

 * Eliza Acton - Modern Cookery for Private Families
 * Thomas Carlyle - Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches
 * Frederick Douglass - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
 * Encyclopaedia Metropolitana
 * Friedrich Engels - The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844
 * Søren Kierkegaard - Stages on Life's Way
 * Domingo Sarmiento - Facundo
 * Max Stirner - Der Einzige und sein Eigentum

Births

 * April 24 - Carl Spitteler, poet (+ 1924)
 * May 17 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (+  1902)
 * July 18 - Tristan Corbière, poet (+ 1875)
 * October 14 - Olindo Guerrini, poet (+ 1916)
 * date unknown - Alexander Anderson, poet
 * date unknown - Amy Dillwyn, novelist (+ 1935)

Deaths

 * May 3 - Thomas Hood, poet