1827 in literature

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The year 1827 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

• Samuel G. Goodrich (1793–1860) publishes the first of the "Peter Parley" juvenile novels that would continue until 1860.
• Ludwig Tieck's Berlin production of A Midsummer Night's Dream is the first to feature the musical score composed by Felix Mendelssohn.
• Nathaniel Willis Senior begins publishing a new magazine for children, The Youth's Companion. One of the most enduring of its type, the magazine continued until 1929.

New books

Fiction

• James Fenimore Cooper
  • The Prairie
  • The Red Rover
• Benjamin Disraeli - Vivian Grey
• Catherine Gore
  • The Lettre de Cachet
  • The Reign of Terror
• Wilhelm Hauff - Jud Süß
• Christian Isobel Johnstone - Elizabeth de Bruce
• Hannah Maria Jones – Rosaline Woodbridge
• Sir Thomas Dick Lauder - The Wolf of Badenoch
• Alessandro Manzoni - I Promessi sposi (The Betrothed)
• Henrietta Rouviere Mosse - Intrigue
• Sydney Owenson - The O'Briens and The O'Flaherties
• Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Hope Leslie
• Horatio Smith – Reuben Aspley

Non-fiction

• Henry Hallam - The Constitutional History of England
• John Keble - The Christian Year
• Lady Louisa Stuart - Memoir of Lady Mary Coke

New drama

• Christian Dietrich Grabbe - Herzog Theodor von Gotland
• Victor Hugo - Cromwell

Poetry

• Heinrich Heine - Buch der Lieder ("Book of Songs"
• Giacomo Leopardi - Operette Morali
• Robert Pollok - The Course of Time
• Tamerlane and Other Poems - written by "A Bostonian", revealed to be Edgar Allan Poe, his first poetry collection

Births

• April 10 - Lewis Wallace (died 1905)
• June 12 - Johanna Spyri (died 1901)

Deaths

• February 18 - Joseph Heinrich Aloysius Gügler, Swiss philosopher and theologian (born 1782)
• May 28 - William James, naval historian (born 1780)
• July 3 - David Davis (Castellhywel), Welsh minister and poet (born 1745)
• July 22 - Ludwig Heinrich von Jakob, economist (born 1759)
• August 12 - William Blake, poet and artist (born 1757)
• September 15 - Robert Pollok, Scottish poet (b. c. 1798)
• October 10 - Ugo Foscolo, dramatist
• November - Alethea Lewis, English novelist (born 1749)
• November 18 - Wilhelm Hauff, poet and novelist
• December 26 - Feliks Jarońskij, Polish philosopher (born 1777)

Awards