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The year 1807 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

• 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
  • The Demon of Sicily
  • Legends of a Nunnery
• 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
  • The Castle Spectre
  • The Fugitive Countess
• 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 -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 28 - Philipp Reclam, German bookseller and publisher (d. 1896)
• 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
• Jónas Hallgrímsson, Icelandic author

Deaths

• December 19 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, writer
• December 21 - John Newton, songwriter ("Amazing Grace")

Awards