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| 1818 |
| | | Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes probably his best-known poem, the sonnet Ozymandias | |
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| 1818 |
| | | In The World as Will and Idea Schopenhauer develops the bleakest possible view of the effects of the human will | |
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| 1818 |
| | | Two of Jane Austen's novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, are published in the year after her death | |
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| 1818 |
| | | Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, a Gothic tale about giving life to an artificial man | |
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| 1819 |
| | | William Cobbett brings back to England the bones of Thomas Paine, who died in the USA in 1809 | |
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| 1819 |
| | | Byron begins publication in parts of his longest poem, Don Juan an epic satirical comment on contemporary life | |
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| 1819 November 22 |
| | | Mary Anne Evans (known now as George Eliot) is born in the parish of Chilvers Coton in Warwickshire | |
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| 1819 |
| | | Walter Scott publishes Ivanhoe, a tale of love, tournaments and sieges at the time of the crusades | |
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| 1820 |
| | | Washington Irving tells the story of the long sleep of Rip Van Winkle in his Sketch Book | |
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| 1820 |
| | | English poet John Keats publishes Ode to a Nightingale, inspired by the bird's song in his Hampstead garden | |
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