1798 in literature

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

• March 30 - Luise Hensel
• June 29 - Count Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet

Deaths

Awards