1822 in literature

Events

• March – The Noctes Ambrosianae, imaginary colloquies, begin to appear in Blackwood's Magazine.
• June 16 – Mary Shelley suffers a miscarriage.
• July 8 – The English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, returning from Livorno to Lerici, where he has been living with his wife Mary, is drowned when his boat sinks in a storm in the Ligurian Sea. His body, washed up ten days later on the beach near Viareggio, is cremated there 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
• Sarah Green – Nuptial Discoveries
• Jane Harvey – Singularity
• Ann Hatton – Guilty or Not Guilty
• Washington Irving – Bracebridge Hall
• Lady Caroline Lamb – Graham Hamilton
• John Neal – Logan, A Family History
• Charles Nodier – Trilby, ou le lutin d'Argail
• 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
• Alessandro Manzoni – Adelchi

  Poetry

• Lord Byron – The Vision of Judgment
• António Feliciano de Castilho – Primavera
• Eleanor Anne Porden – Cœur de Lion
• 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 22 – Edmond de Goncourt, French literary critic and publisher
• December 24 – Matthew Arnold, English poet
• December 26 – Dion Boucicault, Irish-born dramatist

• Boleslav Markevich, Russian writer

  Deaths

• 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
• March 19 – Józef Wybicki, Polish poet

  Awards

• Chancellor's Gold Medal – John Henry Bright
• Newdigate Prize – A. Barber