1819 in literature
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The year 1819 in literature involved some significant events.

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.

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

New drama

• Alessandro Manzoni - Il Conte di Carmagnola

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

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

Births

• January 1 - Arthur Hugh Clough, poet (+ 1861)
• February 22 - James Russell Lowell, poet (+ 1891)
• May 31 - Walt Whitman, poet (+ 1892)
• August 1 - Herman Melville (+ 1891)
• November 22 - George Eliot (+ 1880)
• December 30 - Theodor Fontane

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

Awards