1820 in literature
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See also: 1819 in literature, other events of 1820, 1821 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Robert Chambers's publishing company publishes The Songs of Robert Burns.
- November 20 - An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this story).
[edit] New books
- Thomas Gaspey - Forty Years ago
- Robert Huish - Castle of Nielo
- Francis Lathom - Italian Mysteries
- Charles Maturin - Melmoth the Wanderer
- Regina Marie Roche - The Munster Cottage Boy
- Sir Walter Scott
- Louisa Stanhope - The Crusaders
- Rosalia St. Clair - The Highland Castle, and the Lowland Cottage
- Sarah Wilkinson - The Spectre of Lanmere Abbey
[edit] New drama
- William Thomas Moncrieff - The Lear of Private Life]]
- Percy Bysshe Shelley - Prometheus Unbound
[edit] Poetry
- Robert Burns - The Songs of Robert Burns
- John Clare - Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery
- John Keats - The Eve of St. Agnes; Lamia and Other Poems
- Alphonse de Lamartine - Méditations poétiques
- Aleksandr Pushkin - Ruslan and Ludmila
[edit] Non-fiction
- Thomas Brown - Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Elements of the Philosophy of Right
- John George Hoffman - Pow-Wows; or, Long Lost Friend
- Charles Lamb - Essays of Elia
- Thomas Malthus - Principles of Political Economy
- Charles Mills -History of the Crusades for the Recovery and Possession of the Holy Land
- Robert Southey - Life of Wesley
[edit] Births
- January 17 - Anne Brontë, author (+ 1849)
- March 30 - Anna Sewell, author (+ 1878)
- April 26 - Alice Cary, American poet and short-story writer
- November 28 - Friedrich Engels, socialist writer (+ 1895)
[edit] Deaths
- November 12 - William Hayley, biographer of William Cowper
