1845 in literature

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The year 1845 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

• April 24 - Alfred de Musset and Honoré de Balzac are awarded the Légion d'honneur.
• Robert Browning begins his correspondence with his future wife, Elizabeth Barrett.
• Charlotte Cushman plays Romeo to her sister Susan's Juliet, in a production of Romeo and Juliet at the Haymarket Theatre.
• The essays in Thomas de Quincey's Suspiria de Profundis appear in Blackwood's Magazine in the Spring and Summer.

New books

• James Fenimore Cooper
  • The Chainbearer
  • Satanstoe
• Charles Dickens - The Cricket on the Hearth
• Benjamin Disraeli - Sybil
• Fyodor Dostoevsky - Poor Folk
• Alexandre Dumas, père
  • The Corsican Brothers
  • Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge
  • La Reine Margot
  • The Regent's Daughter
  • Twenty Years After
• Catherine Gore - The Snowstorm: A Christmas Story
• Nathaniel Hawthorne - P.'s Correspondence
• Geraldine Jewsbury - Zoe, A History of Two Lives
• Joaquim Manuel de Macedo - O moço loiro
• Frederick Marryat - The Mission, or Scenes in Africa
• Prosper Mérimée - Carmen
• Robert Smith Surtees - Hillingdon Hall

New drama

• Henrik Hertz - King René's Daughter

Poetry

• Edgar Allan Poe - "The Raven"

Non-fiction

• Eliza Acton - Modern Cookery for Private Families
• Thomas Carlyle - Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches
• Frederick Douglass - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
• Encyclopaedia Metropolitana
• Friedrich Engels - The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844
• Søren Kierkegaard - Stages on Life's Way
• Domingo Sarmiento - Facundo
• Max Stirner - Der Einzige und sein Eigentum

Births

• April 24 - Carl Spitteler, poet (+ 1924)
• May 17 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (+ 1902)
• July 18 - Tristan Corbière, poet (+ 1875)
• October 14 - Olindo Guerrini, poet (+ 1916)
• date unknown - Alexander Anderson, poet
• date unknown - Amy Dillwyn, novelist (+ 1935)

Deaths

• May 3 - Thomas Hood, poet

Awards