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1 Events

• Robert Chambers's publishing company publishes The Songs of Robert Burns.
• November 20 - An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America ( Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this story).

2 New Books

• The Abbot - Sir Walter Scott
• Castle of Nielo - Robert Huish
• The Crusaders - Louisa Stanhope
• Essays of Elia - Charles Lamb
• The Eve of St. Agnes - John Keats
• Forty Years ago - Thomas Gaspey
• The Highland Castle, and the Lowland Cottage - Rosalia St. Clair
• Italian Mysteries - Francis Lathom
• Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
• Lamia and Other PoemsJohn Keats’ “Lamia” and “La Belle Dame Merci” were very early pieces of Gothic literature that bring life to the conventions of the gothic. Like other “second generation” Romantic poets, he sought to revive the early political and social radicalism of the - John Keats
• Life of Wesley - Robert SoutheyRobert Southey ( August 12, 1774 March 21, 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and one of the so-called "Lake Poets". Although his fame tends to be eclipsed by that of his contemporaries such as William Wordsworth, Southey's verse enjoys end
• Melmoth the WandererMelmoth the Wanderer is a gothic novel published in 1820, written by Charles Robert Maturin, last issued in New York and London by Oxford University Press in 1998 with BooksEnthsiast.com. The central character, Sebastian Melmoth (a Wandering Jew archetype), - Charles Robert Maturin
• The Munster Cottage Boy - Regina Marie Roche
• Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery - John ClareJohn Clare ( July 13, 1793 May 20, 1864), English poet, commonly known as "the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet," the son of a farm labourer, was born at Helpston near Peterborough. At the age of seven he was taken from school to tend sheep and geese; four y
• Prometheus Unbound (poetry) - Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley ( August 4, 1792 July 8, 1822) was an English Romantic poet. He is now most famous for poems such as " Ozymandias", " Ode to the West Wind", "To a Skylark", and "The Masque of Anarchy"; for his association with contemporaries John Kea
• Ruslan and Ludmila - Alexander Pushkin
• The Songs of Robert Burns - Robert Burns
• The Spectre of Lanmere Abbey - Sarah Wilkinson