Books - 1820 in literature

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

• The Abbot - Sir Walter Scott
• Castle of Nielo - Robert Huish
• The Crusaders - Louisa Stanhope
• Essays of Elia - Charles Lamb
• Forty Years ago - Thomas Gaspey
• The Highland Castle, and the Lowland Cottage - Rosalia St. Clair
• Italian Mysteries - Francis Lathom
• Ivanhoe
  - Sir Walter Scott
• Melmoth the Wanderer
  - Charles Robert Maturin
• The Munster Cottage Boy - Regina Marie Roche
• The Spectre of Lanmere Abbey - Sarah Wilkinson

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
• Percy Bysshe Shelley - Prometheus Unbound

Non-fiction

• Thomas Brown - Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind
• Thomas Malthus - Principles of Political Economy
• 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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