1750
    

Thomas Gray: Elegy written in a Country Churchyard

  
1762
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Le Contract Social (The Social Contract)
1765

Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto
1774

J.W. von Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther
1776
 Max Klinger: play, Sturm und Drang
1781

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Confessions

1782

Friedrich von Schiller: The Robbers
1786

Robert Burns: Poems
1787

J.W. von Goethe: Iphigenie auf Tauris
1789

Willaim Blake: Songs of Innocence

1794

Thomas Paine: The Age of Reason
William Blake: Songs of Experience
Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho
1798

Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads

1799

Friedrich von Schiller: Wallenstein Trilogy
1800
 Jean-Paul Richter: Titan
1802

Novalis: Heinrich von Ofterdingen
1803

Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey, written, published 1811
1804
 Friedrich von Schiller: Wilhelm Tell
1805
 Willaim Wordsworth: The Prelude

1807

Willaim Wordsworth: Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Charles Lamb: Tales of Shakespeare

1808

J.W. von Goethe: Faust I, Faust II (1833)
Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim: Des Knaben Wunderhorn compelted
1809

Washington Irving: Rip van Winkle

1810

Sir Walter Scott: The Lady of the Lake
1811
 Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility

1812
 Lord Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, completed 1818
Brothers Grimm: Fairy Tales
Maria Edgeworth: The Absentee

1813


Percy Shelley: Queen Mab
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
Madame de Staël: De L'Allemagne

1816


Jane Austen: Emma
Samuel Taylor Colerdige: Kubla Khan

1818


Lord Byron: Don Juan
Thomas Love Peacock: Nightmare Abbey
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
John Keats: Endymion
1819
 Sir Walter Scott: The Bride of Lammermoor

1820
John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale, The Eve of St. Agnes
Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe
Percy Shelley: Prometheus Unbound

1822
 Thomas de Quincey: Confessions of an English Opium Eater
William Hazlitt: Table Talk completed
E.T.A. Hoffmann: Kreisleriana

1824

Lord Byron: Don Juan completed
Lord Byron dies in Greece
Herman Melville: Billy Budd
1825
 William Cullen Bryant: A Forest Hymn
1826

Alfred comte de Vigny: Poèmes antiques et modernes

1827

Victor Hugo: Cromwell
Heinrich Heine: Buch der Lieder
William Blake dies
1833

Victor Hugo: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1834

Alphonse de Lamartine: Harmonies poletiques et religieuses
Alfred de Musset: Lorenzaccio
Honore de Balzac: Father Goriot
1836
 Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature
1839

Edgar Allan Poe: "The Fall of the House of Usher"

1841

Edgar Allan Poe: "Murders in the Rue Morgue"
Charles Dickens: Old Curiosity Shop

1845

Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven
Margaret Fuller: Woman in the 19th Century

1847
 Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Evangeline

1849
 Charles Dickens: David Copperfield
Henry David Thoreau: "Civil Disobedience"
1850
 Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

1851

Herman Melville: Moby Dick
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of Seven Gables
Harriet Beacher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin, completed 1852

1854
 Henry David Thoreau: Walden
Alfred Lord Tennyson: The Charge of the Light Brigade

1855
 Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Song of Hiawatha

1856
 Thomas Baudelaire: Les Fleurs du Mal
Herman Melville: "Bartleby the Scrivener"
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