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The year 1807 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events
- June 24 - The Tout-Paris assists in the first production of the Panorama de Momus, a vaudeville by Marc-Antoine Désaugiers.
- On a visit to Dresden, Heinrich von Kleist is arrested by the French as a spy, and kept a prisoner for six months at Châlons-sur-Marne.
- John Wiley & Sons book publishing company founded.
- Washington Irving launches the satirical magazine Salmagundi.
New books
- Harriet Butler - Count Eugenio
- Harriet Corp - An Antidote to the Miseries of Human Life
- Charlotte Dacre - The Libertine
- Sophia Frances - Constance de Lindensdorf
- Elizabeth Gunning - The Orphans of Snowdon
- Rachel Hunter -Family Annals
- William Henry Ireland - The Catholic
- Charles Lamb & Mary Lamb - Tales from Shakespeare
- Matthew Gregory Lewis - The Wood Daemon
- Charles Maturin - The Fatal Revenge
- Mary Meeke - Julien
- Theodore Melville - The Benevolent Monk
- Edward Montague
- Henrietta Rouviere Mosse - A Peep at our Ancestors
- Mary Pilkington - Ellen: Heiress of the Castle
- Anna Maria Porter - The Hungarian Brothers
- Regina Marie Roche - The Discarded Son
- Anne Louise Germaine de Stael -Corinne
- Cathérine F. de St-Venant - Léopold de Circé
- Sarah Wilkinson
- Mary Julia Young - A Summer at Brighton
New drama
- Giovanni Giraud - Gelosie per equivoco
Poetry
- James Hogg - The Mountain Bard
- William Wordsworth - Poems in Two Volumes, including Ode on the Intimations of Immortality
Non-fiction
- Antoine Alexandre Barbier - Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -The Phenomenology of Spirit
- Gottlieb Hufeland - New Foundations of Political Economy
- Alexander von Humboldt - Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du nouveau continent 1799-1804
Births
- February 27 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (d. 1882)
- June 30 - Friedrich Theodor Vischer, German author († 1887)
- September 9 - Richard Chenevix Trench, poet
- October 23 - Baroness Tautphoeus, novelist (d. 1893)
- October 30 - Christopher Wordsworth, Biblical editor and commentator, nephew of William Wordsworth
- November 16 - Jónas Hallgrímsson, Icelandic author (d. 1845)
Deaths
- January 5 - Isaac Reed, Shakespearean editor (b. 1742)
- February 18 - Sophie von La Roche, novelist (b. 1730)
- June 14 - Louis Bruyas, dramatist and actor (b. 1738)
- July 24 - John Christopher Kunze, theologian (b. 1744)
- August 1 - John Walker, lexicographer (b. 1732)
- December 19 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, memoirist and literary correspondent (b. 1723)
- December 21 - John Newton, songwriter ("Amazing Grace") (b. 1725)
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