This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1827.
Events
- January â Amhlaoibh àSúilleabháin begins his Irish-language diary, later published as CÃÂn Lae Amhlaoibh.
- January 27 â Johann Wolfgang von Goethe first elaborates on his vision of Weltliteratur (world literature), in a letter to Johann Peter Eckermann, declaring his belief that "poetry is the universal possession of mankind", and that "the epoch of world literature is at hand, and each must work to hasten its coming."
- January 30 â The first public theatre in Norway, the Christiania Offentlige Theater, is inaugurated in Christiania (modern-day Oslo).
- February â Thomas De Quincey's essay On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts is published in Blackwood's Magazine.
- February 23 â Sir Walter Scott's authorship of the Waverley Novels is first publicly acknowledged at an Edinburgh Theatrical Fund dinner.
- February 24 â Samuel Griswold Goodrich copyrights the first of the "Peter Parley" juvenile books in the United States, which will continue until 1860.
- April 16 â Nathaniel Willis Senior begins publishing a new magazine for children, The Youth's Companion, in Boston, Massachusetts, weekly from June 6. One of the most enduring of its type, the magazine continues until 1929.
- June â John Neal returns to the US after two and a half years in England.
- September 4 â The Great Fire of Turku (the largest city in Finland at that time) destroys Finnish archives, including practically all material from Finland's Middle Ages. The library of the Royal Academy of Turku is also destroyed.
- October 14 â Ludwig Tieck's Potsdam production of A Midsummer Night's Dream is the first to feature the incidental music composed by Felix Mendelssohn.
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- Thomas Skinner Sturr's anonymous Richmond, or stories in the life of a Bow Street officer, the earliest collection of detective stories, is published in London by Henry Colburn.
- The Swedish theatre director Johan Peter Strömberg establishes what will become the Christiania Theatre in Norway.
- John James Audubon begins publication of a 10-volume The Birds of America in the United Kingdom.
New books
Fiction
Children
Agnes Strickland â The Juvenile Forget Me Not; Or, Cabinet of Entertainment and Instruction
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
- February 17 â Rose Terry Cooke, American author and poet (died 1892)
- February 22 â Bhudev Mukhopadhyay, Bengali writer and philosopher (died 1894)
- March 3 â H. B. Goodwin, American novelist, poet and educator (died 1893)
- March 4 â Henrietta Keddie (Sarah Tytler), Scottish novelist and children's writer (died 1914)
- March 25 â Edward Bradley, English novelist and cleric (died 1889)
- April 10 â Mary Helen Peck Crane, American activist and writer (died 1891)
- April 10 â Lew Wallace, American soldier, politician and novelist (died 1905)
- April 16 â Octave Crémazie, pioneering French Canadian poet (died 1879)
- June 12 â Johanna Spyri, Swiss children's author (died 1901)
- September 13 â Catherine Winkworth, English translator and hymnist (died 1878)
- September 18 â John Townsend Trowbridge, American author (died 1916)
- probable â Margaret Eleanor Parker, English-born Scottish travel writer, social activist and social reformer (died 1896)
Deaths
- February 9 â Emily S. Bouton, American educator, journalist, author and editor (born 1837)
- February 18 â Joseph Heinrich Aloysius Gügler, Swiss philosopher and theologian (born 1782)
- May 28 â William James, English naval historian (born 1780)
- June 25 â Christian August Vulpius, German novelist and playwright (born 1762)
- July 3 â David Davis (Castellhywel), Welsh minister and poet (born 1745)
- July 22 â Ludwig Heinrich von Jakob, German economist (born 1759)
- July 27 â Fredrique Eleonore Baptiste, Swedish-Finnish playwright
- August 12 â William Blake, English poet and artist (born 1757)
- September 15 â Robert Pollok, Scottish poet (born c. 1798)
- October 10 â Ugo Foscolo, Greek-born Italian dramatist and poet (born 1778)
- November â Alethea Lewis, English novelist (born 1749)
- November 18 â Wilhelm Hauff, German poet and novelist (born 1802)
- December 15 â Helen Maria Williams, English novelist, poet and translator from French (born 1759)
- December 26 â Feliks JaroÃ
Âskij, Polish philosopher (born 1777)
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