1818 in literature
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The year 1818 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Lord Byron begins writing Don Juan.
- Series of lectures on poetry, drama, philosophy - Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
[edit] New books
- Jane Austen - Persuasion
- Thomas Bowdler - The Family Shakspeare (second edition, much expanded from 1807 edition)
- Selina Davenport - An Angel's Form and a Devil's Heart
- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier - Marriage
- Franz Grillparzer - Sappho
- Ann Hatton - Secrets in Every Mansion
- Mary Meeke - The Veiled Protectress
- James Mill - The History of British India
- Thomas Love Peacock - Nightmare Abbey
- Anna Maria Porter - The Fast of St. Magdalen: A Romance
- Sir Walter Scott - The Heart of Midlothian
- Mary Shelley - Frankenstein (originally published anonymously)
- Louisa Stanhope
- Elizabeth Thomas - Woman, or Minor Maxims; a Sketch
[edit] New drama
- Franz Grillparzer - Sappho
[edit] Poetry
- Kristijonas Donelaitis - The Seasons
- John Keats - Endymion
- Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ozymandias
- Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Revolt of Islam
- Percy Bysshe Shelley - Rosalind and Helen: A Modern Eclogue
[edit] Non-fiction
- Josef Dobrovsky - History of the Czech Language
- Henry Hallam - The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages
- William Hazlitt - Lectures on the English Poets
- Charles Mills -History of Mohammedanism
- Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy - Dictionnaire Infernal
[edit] Births
- May 25 - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian (died 1897)
- July 30 - Emily Brontë, English novelist and poet (died 1848)
- November 9 - Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist and playwright (died 1883)
[edit] Deaths
- January 11 - Johann David Wyss, author
- May 14 - Matthew Gregory Lewis, novelist and dramatist
- date unknown
- Malcolm Laing, historian
