1798 in literature - Definition

See also: 1797 in literature, other events of 1798, 1799 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• The Académie française publishes a new edition of its dictionary.

New Books

• Alcuin: a Dialogue - Charles Brockden Brown
• Lyrical Ballads - published anonymously by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
• Wieland - Charles Brockden Brown

Births

• January 5 - David Macbeth Moir, poet and humorist
• February 17 - Auguste Comte
• March 30 - Luise Hensel
• June 29 - Count Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet

Deaths

• June 4 - Giacomo Casanova
• June 20 - Jeremy Belknap, historian of New Hampshire
• December 16 - Thomas Pennant, traveller

Awards