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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 8 Awards

[edit] 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).
• 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.

[edit] New books

• Edward Ball - The Black Robber
• Jane Harvey - Any Thing But What You Expect
• 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
• Rosalia St. Clair - The Son of O'Donnel
• Zara Wentworth - The Recluse of Albyn Hall

[edit] New drama

• Alessandro Manzoni - Il Conte di Carmagnola

[edit] Poetry

• Lord Byron - Mazeppa
• Thomas Campbell - Specimens of the British Poets
• Barry Cornwall - Dramatic Scenes and other Poems
• John Keats - Odes
• Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Cenci

[edit] 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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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

[edit] Awards