1844 in literature

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The year 1844 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

• The first volumes of the Patrologia Latina, a 217 volume collection of works in Latin, are published in Paris by Jacques Paul Migne. The initial volumes include the writings of Tertullian and Cyprian, among other authors.

New books

• José de Alencar - Os contrabandistas (unpublished, lost)
• Honoré de Balzac - Les Paysans
• Charles Dickens - The Chimes
• Benjamin Disraeli - Coningsby
• Alexandre Dumas, père
  • The Count of Monte Cristo
  • The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires)
• Heinrich Hoffmann - Struwwelpeter
• Charles Lever - Tom Burke of Ours
• Joaquim Manuel de Macedo - A Moreninha
• Frederick Marryat - Settlers in Canada
• G. W. M. Reynolds - The Mysteries of London
• Eugène Sue - Le Juif Errant
• Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - The Wrongs of Women
• William Makepeace Thackeray - The Luck of Barry Lyndon

New drama

• Christian Friedrich Hebbel - Maria Magdalene
• José Zorilla - Don Juan Tenorio

Poetry

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Poems
• Heinrich Heine - Neue Gedichte
• James Russell Lowell - Poems
• Coventry Patmore - Poems

Non-fiction

• Robert Chambers(published anonymously) -Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
• Friedrich Engels - Condition of the Working Classes in England
• Søren Kierkegaard - The Concept of Anxiety
• Karl Marx - On the Jewish Question
• John Stuart Mill - Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy
• Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Life of Arnold
• Max Stirner - The Ego and Its Own
• William Henry Fox Talbot - The Pencil of Nature (first book illustrated with photographs)

Births

• March 30 - Paul Verlaine, lyric poet (died 1896)
• April 2 - George Haven Putnam, American author, publisher (died 1930)
• April 16 - Anatole France, writer (died 1924)
• April 28 - Thomas Jones (Tudno), Welsh-language poet (died 1895)
• July 28 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet (died 1889)
• August 29 - Edward Carpenter, Socialist poet (died 1929)
• September 9 - Maurice Thompson, novelist (died 1901)
• October 15 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (died 1900)
• October 23 - Robert Bridges, poet (died 1930)
• October 27 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist (died 1916)

Deaths

• January 27 - Charles Nodier, writer (born 1780)
• February 11 - Tamenaga Shunsui, Japanese novelist (born 1790)
• June 11 - Urban Jarnik, Slovene poet and historian (born 1784)
• June 15 - Thomas Campbell, poet (born 1777)
• July 11 - Evgeny Baratynsky, poet and philosopher (born 1800)
• August 14 - Henry Cary, author and translator (born 1772)
• September 18 - John Sterling, novelist and poet (born 1806)
• October 25 - William Miller, publisher (born 1769)
• November 21 - Ivan Krylov, fable-writer (born 1769)

Awards