1819 in literature

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The year 1819 in literature involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths

Events

In England, Richard Carlile (1790–1843) is convicted of blasphemy and sent to prison for publishing The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine (1737–1809).
Percy Bysshe Shelley has his annus mirabilis, one of his most productive years
Washington Irving begins publishing The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon in seven installments—the first of which includes "Rip Van Winkle" and the last of which includes "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" -- simultaneously in the United States and England.

New books

Edward Ball - The Black Robber
Ann Hatton - The Oath of Vengeance
Washington Irving - The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
John William Polidori - The Vampyre
Sir Walter Scott
- The Bride of Lammermoor
- Ivanhoe
- A Legend of Montrose

New drama

Alessandro Manzoni - Il Conte di Carmagnola
Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Cenci, a Tragedy, in Five Acts

Poetry

Lord Byron - Mazeppa, containing "Fragment of a Novel" as a supplement
Thomas Campbell - Specimens of the British Poets
Barry Cornwall - Dramatic Scenes and other Poems
John Keats - Odes
Percy Bysshe Shelley
- The Cenci, a Tragedy, in Five Acts
- Ode to the West Wind
- The Masque of Anarchy
- Men of England
- England in 1819
- The Witch of Atlas
- Julian and Maddalo

Non-fiction

Jakob Grimm - German Grammar
Georg Hermes - Philosophical Introduction to Christian Theology
Richard Colt Hoare - A Classical Tour through Italy and Sicily
Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation
Percy Bysshe Shelley - A Philosophical View of Reform (published in 1920)

Births

January 1 - Arthur Hugh Clough, poet (d. 1861)
February 22 - James Russell Lowell, poet (d. 1891)
May 31 - Walt Whitman, poet (d. 1892)
August 1 - Herman Melville (d. 1891)
November 22 - George Eliot (d. 1880)
December 26 - E. D. E. N. Southworth, writer (d. 1899)
December 30 - Theodor Fontane (d. 1898)

Deaths

January 12 - André Morellet, philosophe
March 23 - August von Kotzebue, dramatist
April 17 - William Holland, diarist
November 2 - Théodore-Pierre Bertin, writer and pioneer of shorthand
November 23 - Quintin Craufurd, historian

Abu Rumi - Ethiopian translator of the Bible (born c. 1750)