1820 in literature

1820 in literature

The year 1820 in literature involved some significant events.

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).

New books

*James Fenimore Cooper - "Precaution"
*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
**"The Abbot"
**"The Monastery"
*Louisa Stanhope - "The Crusaders"
*Rosalia St. Clair - "The Highland Castle, and the Lowland Cottage"
*Sarah Wilkinson - "The Spectre of Lanmere Abbey"

New drama

*William Thomas Moncrieff - "The Lear of Private Life"
*Percy Bysshe Shelley - "Prometheus Unbound"

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"

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"

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)

Deaths

*November 12 - William Hayley, biographer of William Cowper

Awards

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