Books - 1818 in literature

Events

• Lord Byron begins writing Don Juan
• Series of lectures on poetry, drama, philosophy - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

New books

• An Angel's Form and a Devil's Heart - Selina Davenport
• The Bandit's Bride - Louisa Stanhope
• Endymion (poem) - John Keats
• Family Shakespeare - Thomas Bowdler
• The Fast of St. Magdalen: A Romance - Anna Maria Porter
• Frankenstein
  - Mary Shelley
• The Friend - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• The Heart of Midlothian
  - Sir Walter Scott
• Marriage - Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier
• Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock
• Northanger Abbey
  - Jane Austen
• The Nun of Santa Maria di Tindaro - Louisa Stanhope
• Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Persuasion
  - Jane Austen
• Rob Roy
  - Sir Walter Scott
• Sappho - Franz Grillparzer
• Secrets in Every Mansion - Anne Hatton
• The Veiled Protectress - Mary Meeke
• Woman, or Minor Maxims; a Sketch - Elizabeth Thomas

New drama

• Franz Grillparzer - Sapho

Poetry

• John Keats - Endymion

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

Births

• July 30 - Emily Brontë (+ 1848)
• November 9 - Ivan Turgenev (+ 1883)

Deaths

• May 14 - Matthew Gregory Lewis, novelist and dramatist
• Johann David Wyss, author

Awards

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