" Ivanhoe " ( eng.Ivanhoe ) - an adventure historical novel by Walter Scott .
“ Baby Tsahes, nicknamed Zinnober ” is a tale by E. T. A. Hoffmann .
La Belle Dame sans Merci is the ballad of the English romantic poet John Keats (published in 1820 ).
Don Giovanni is a satirical poem by Lord Byron . The first two chapters are published (anonymously). Byron continued to complete this work until his death ( 1824 ), writing 16 chapters, and leaving the 17th unfinished.
" Vampire " is the first work of the vampire in fiction.
Born
February 8 - John Ruskin , British writer and art critic (died in 1900 ).
May 31 - Walt Whitman , American poet (died in 1892 ).
July 19 - Gottfried Keller , a Swiss writer, wrote in German (died in 1890 ).
July 24 - Josiah Gilbert Holland (d. 1881 ), American poet, writer, editor of Scribner's Monthly magazine .
August 1 - Herman Melville , American writer (died 1891 ).
November 22 - George Eliot (real name Mary Ann Evans ), English writer (died in 1880 ).
December 30 - Theodore Fontane , German writer (died in 1898 ).
Adolf Pichler , Austrian writer and naturalist (died in 1900 ).
Died
July 29 - Christian Levin Zander , Danish and German writer (born 1756 ).