1822 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1822.
Events
- March – The Noctes Ambrosianae, imaginary colloquies, begin to appear in Blackwood's Magazine.
- June 16 – Mary Shelley suffers a miscarriage.
- July 18 – The body of English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, is washed up on the beach near Viareggio in Italy, ten days after he left Livorno for Lerici, where Shelley had been living with his wife Mary; his boat, the Don Juan, had sunk in a storm in the Ligurian Sea. His body is cremated on the beach in the presence of Lord Byron and Edward John Trelawny, who claims to have seized Shelley's heart from the flames.
New books
Fiction
- Richard Henry Dana Sr. – Paul Felton
- Kenelm Henry Digby – The Broad-Stone of Honour
- Thomas Gaspey – The Lollards
- Sarah Green – Nuptial Discoveries
- Jane Harvey – Singularity
- Ann Hatton – Guilty or Not Guilty
- James Hogg – "The Three Perils of Man"
- Washington Irving – Bracebridge Hall
- Lady Caroline Lamb – Graham Hamilton
- John Neal – Logan, a Family History
- John Gibson Lockhart – Adam Blair
- Charles Nodier – Trilby
- Anna Maria Porter – The Hunters of the Pyrenees
- Rosalia St. Clair – Clavering Tower
- Sir Walter Scott
- *The Fortunes of Nigel
- *The Pirate
- Catharine Maria Sedgwick – ''A New England Tale''
Children and young people
- Hans Christian Andersen – Ghost at Palnatoke's Grave
- Charlotte Anley – Influence. A Moral Tale for Young People
- Susannah Moodie – Spartacus
- Mary Martha Sherwood – The History of Henry Milner
- Agnes Strickland – ''The Moss-House: In Which Many of the Works of Nature Are Rendered a Source of Amusement to Children''
Drama
- Franz Grillparzer – The Golden Fleece (Das goldene Vlies)
- Alessandro Manzoni – Adelchi
- Richard Lalor Sheil – ''The Huguenot''
Poetry
- Lord Byron – The Vision of Judgment
- António Feliciano de Castilho – Primavera
- Eleanor Anne Porden – Cœur de Lion
- Alexander Pushkin - The Prisoner of the Caucasus
- Percy Bysshe Shelley – ''Hellas''
Non-fiction
- Thomas de Quincey – Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
- John Claudius Loudon – ''An Encyclopaedia of Gardening''
Births
- February 10 – Eliza Lynn Linton, English novelist and journalist
- February 22 – Frances Elizabeth Barrow, American author of children's stories
- May 26 – Edmond de Goncourt, French literary critic and publisher
- December 24 – Matthew Arnold, English poet
- Boleslav Markevich, Russian writer
Deaths
- March 19 – Józef Wybicki, Polish poet
- March 27 – Sir Alexander Boswell, 1st Baronet, Scottish politician, poet, songwriter and antiquary, killed in duel
- June 25 – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German Romantic writer
- July 8 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet and radical
- December 7 – John Aikin, English physician and miscellanist
- December 8 – Saul Ascher, German political writer and translator
Awards
- Chancellor's Gold Medal – John Henry Bright
- Newdigate Prize – A. Barber