1820 in literature

Events

• Robert Chambers's publishing company publishes The Songs of Robert Burns.

New Books

• The Abbot[?] - Sir Walter Scott
• Castle of Nielo[?] - Robert Huish[?]
• The Crusaders[?] - Louisa Stanhope[?]
• Essays of Elia[?] - Charles Lamb
• The Eve of St. Agnes[?] - John Keats
• Forty Years ago[?] - Thomas Gaspey[?]
• The Highland Castle, and the Lowland Cottage[?] - Rosalia St. Clair[?]
• Italian Mysteries[?] - Francis Lathom[?]
• Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
• Lamia and Other Poems[?] - John Keats
• Life of Wesley[?] - Robert Southey
• Melmoth the Wanderer[?] - Charles Robert Maturin[?]
• The Munster Cottage Boy[?] - Regina Marie Roche[?]
• Prometheus Unbound[?] (poetry) - Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Ruslan and Ludmila[?] - Alexander Pushkin
• The Songs of Robert Burns[?] - Robert Burns
• The Spectre of Lanmere Abbey[?] - Sarah Wilkinson[?]

Births

• January 17 - Anne Bronte, author (+ 1849)
• March 30 - Anna Sewell, author (+ 1878)
• November 28 - Friedrich Engels, socialist writer (+ 1895)

Deaths

Awards