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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1823.

Events

February 7 – The Bannatyne Club is inaugurated by Sir Walter Scott and others as a text publication society to print by subscription rare texts relating to the history, literature and traditions of Scotland.
October – Thomas De Quincey's classic essay On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth appears in this month's issue of The London Magazine.
December – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, suffering from opium addiction, takes up residence at No. 3, The Grove, Highgate, a house owned by Dr James Gillman.^[1]
December 23 – Clement Clarke Moore's poem, A Visit from St. Nicholas is published anonymously in the Troy, New York, Sentinel, and introduces the character named "Santa Claus".
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- The discovery of the First Quarto edition of 1603 of William Shakespeare's Hamlet (a so-called "bad quarto"), by Sir Henry Bunbury, causes great excitement within the scholarly community.
- Publication in London by C. Baldwyn of German Popular Stories. Translated from the Kinder und Haus Märchen collected by MM. Grimm from Oral Tradition, the first English translation of Grimms' Fairy Tales. The anonymous translations were made by two lawyers, Edgar Taylor and David Jardine, and illustrations provided by George Cruikshank, who is beginning to focus on this medium.^[2]

James Fenimore Cooper – The Pioneers
Claire de Duras – Ourika
John Galt
- The Entail, or The Lairds of Grippy
- The Gathering of the West
- Ringan Gilhaize, or The Covenanters
- The Spaewife: a tale of the Scottish chronicles
Thomas Gaspey – Monks of Leadenhead
Sarah Green – The Nieces
Jane Harvey – Mountalyth
William Hazlitt – Liber Amoris
Grace Kennedy – Father Clement
Caroline Lamb – Ada Reis
Mary Meeke – What Shall Be, Shall Be
John Neal – Logan
James Kirke Paulding – Koningsmarke, the Long Finne
Quintin Poyney – The Wizard Priest and the Witch
Sir Walter Scott (anonymously)
- Peveril of the Peak
- Quentin Durward
- St. Ronan's Well
Mary Shelley – Valperga
John Wilson – The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay

Mrs Markham (Elizabeth Penrose) – A History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the End of the Reign of George III (non-fiction)

Aleksander Griboyedov – Woe from Wit (written)
Mary Russell Mitford – Julian: a tragedy
Eugène Scribe
- Le Menteur Veridique
- The Heiress (L'Héritière, for the Théâtre du Gymnase)
Franz Grillparzer – König Ottokars Glück und Ende (The Fortune and Fall of King Ottokar, published)

January 1 – Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet and revolutionary (died 1849)
February 27 – Ernest Renan, French philosopher and writer (died 1892)
March 20 – Ned Buntline (E. Z. C. Judson), American writer and publisher 1886)
April 12 – Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian dramatist (died 1886)
August 2 – Edward Augustus Freeman, English historian and politician (died 1892)
August 13 – Goldwin Smith, English historian and journalist (died 1910)
October 6 – George Henry Boker, American poet, playwright and diplomat (died 1890)

February 7 – Ann Radcliffe, English novelist (born 1764)
February 21 – Charles Wolfe, Irish poet (born 1791)
April 10 – Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (born 1757)
May 16 – Ōta Nampo, Japanese comic poet and painter (born 1749)
June 19 – William Combe, English writer, poet and adventurer (born 1742)
August 19 – Robert Bloomfield, English "ploughboy poet" (born 1766)
August 20 – Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German encyclopedia publisher and editor (born 1772)
September 11 – David Ricardo, English political economist (born 1772)
November 9 – Vasily Kapnist, Russian poet and dramatist (born 1758)

^ McVeigh, Daniel (2005). "ESTESE and Doblado: Coleridge, Blanco White, and the Church of Rome". In Marshall, Donald G. (ed) (ed.). The Force of Tradition. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 165. {{cite book}}: |editor= has generic name (help)
^ Chapelle, Niamh (2001). "The Translator's Tale" (PDF). p. 72. Retrieved 2013-11-22.
^ The Annual Register 1823.