1772 in literature
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1771 in literature
See also: 1770 in literature, other events of 1771, 1772 in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:*April 9 - Pedro Correia Garção is arrested and committed to prison by Sebastião de Melo, Marquis of Pombal....
, other events of 1772, 1773 in literature
1773 in literature
See also: 1772 in literature, other events of 1773, 1774 in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:*Richard Brinsley Sheridan marries Elizabeth Linley.*Samuel Johnson and James Boswell tour the Western Isles of Scotland-New books:...
, list of years in literature.
Events
- May 7 - The StadsschouwburgStadsschouwburg (Amsterdam)The Stadsschouwburg of Amsterdam is the name of a theatre building at the Leidseplein in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The building is in the neo-Renaissance style dating back to 1894, and is the former home of the National Ballet and Opera.-The Rederijkerskamers:The first rederijkers appeared at...
theatre in Amsterdam is destroyed by fire. - June - At Marseilles, the Marquis de SadeMarquis de SadeDonatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade was a French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle...
embarks on an orgy, as a result of which he is convicted in absentia of sodomy and poisoning and receives a death sentence; he escapes. - Thomas PaineThomas PaineThomas "Tom" Paine was an English author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States...
produces his first published work, a political article entitled Case of the Officers of Excise. - Gottfried August BürgerGottfried August BürgerGottfried August Bürger was a German poet. His ballads were very popular in Germany. His most noted ballad, Lenore, found an audience beyond readers of the German language in an English adaptation and a French translation.-Biography:He was born in Molmerswende , Principality of Halberstadt, where...
obtains a magistracy and is reconciled with his family. - Charles BurneyCharles BurneyCharles Burney FRS was an English music historian and father of authors Frances Burney and Sarah Burney.-Life and career:...
tours Europe, researching for his History of Music. - Hannah MoreHannah MoreHannah More was an English religious writer, and philanthropist. She can be said to have made three reputations in the course of her long life: as a poet and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, as a writer on moral and religious subjects, and as a practical...
arrives in London.
New books
- Elizabeth BonhôteElizabeth BonhôteElizabeth Bonhôte, née Mapes was an English novelist and essayist .She was born Elizabeth Mapes in Bungay, Suffolk in 1744 and married one Daniel Bonhote, a member of the local gentry, by whom she bore two daughters. She wrote several elegies and poems in praise of the monarchy before writing her...
- The Rambles of Mr Frankly, Published by his Sister - Sophia Briscoe - The Fine Lady
- Robert FergussonRobert FergussonRobert Fergusson was a Scottish poet. After formal education at the University of St Andrews, Fergusson followed an essentially bohemian life course in Edinburgh, the city of his birth, then at the height of intellectual and cultural ferment as part of the Scottish enlightenment...
- The Daft Days - Sarah ScottSarah ScottSarah Scott was an English novelist, translator, and social reformer. Her father, Matthew Robinson, and her mother, Elizabeth Robinson, were both from distinguished families, and Sarah was one of nine children who survived to adulthood...
- The Test of Filial Duty
New drama
- Richard CumberlandRichard Cumberland (dramatist)Richard Cumberland was a British dramatist and civil servant. In 1771 his hit play The West Indian was first staged. During the American War of Independence he acted as a secret negotiator with Spain in an effort to secure a peace agreement between the two nations. He also edited a short-lived...
- The Fashionable LoverThe Fashionable LoverThe Fashionable Lover is a comedy play by the British writer Richard Cumberland. It was first staged at the Drury Lane Theatre in London in January 1772. A sentimental comedy, it follows the adventures of Augusta Aubrey after she leaves her ward's house and is nearly seduced by the villainous Lord... - Samuel FooteSamuel FooteSamuel Foote was a British dramatist, actor and theatre manager from Cornwall.-Early life:Born into a well-to-do family, Foote was baptized in Truro, Cornwall on 27 January 1720. His father, John Foote, held several public positions, including mayor of Truro, Member of Parliament representing...
- The NabobThe NabobThe Nabob is a comedy play by the English writer Samuel Foote. It was first performed at the Haymarket Theatre on 29 June 1772. A wealthy nabob Sir Matthew Mite returns to England from India and tries to buy his way into high society.-Bibliography:... - David GarrickDavid GarrickDavid Garrick was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century and was a pupil and friend of Dr Samuel Johnson...
- The Irish WidowThe Irish WidowThe Irish Widow is a play by David Garrick first staged at Drury Lane Theatre on 23 October 1772. It was written in less than week by Garrick and resembled the plot of Le Mariage forcé by Molière... - Gotthold Lessing - Emilia GalottiEmilia GalottiEmilia Galotti is a play in five acts by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , which premiered on 8 March 1772 in Brunswick . The work is a classic example of German bürgerliches Trauerspiel . Other works in this category include Schiller's Kabale und Liebe and Hebbel's Maria Magdalene...
- Arthur MurphyArthur MurphyArthur Murphy , also known by the pseudonym Charles Ranger, was an Irish writer.-Biography:He was born at Cloonyquin, County Roscommon, Ireland, the son of Richard Murphy and Jane French....
- The Grecian Daughter
Poetry
- Mark AkensideMark AkensideMark Akenside was an English poet and physician.Akenside was born at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the son of a butcher. He was slightly lame all his life from a wound he received as a child from his father's cleaver...
- Poems - Thomas ChattertonThomas ChattertonThomas Chatterton was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry. He died of arsenic poisoning, either from a suicide attempt or self-medication for a venereal disease.-Childhood:...
- The Execution of Sir Charles Bawdin - Charles Jenner - Town Eclogues
- William JonesWilliam Jones (philologist)Sir William Jones was an English philologist and scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages...
- Poems, Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick Languages - William KenrickWilliam Kenrick (writer)William Kenrick was an English novelist, playwright, translator and satirist, who spent much of his career libelling and lampooning his fellow writers.- Life and career :Kenrick was born at Watford, Hertfordshire, son of a stay-maker...
- Love in the Suds - William Mason (poet)}William Mason - The English Garden
- Christopher SmartChristopher SmartChristopher Smart , also known as "Kit Smart", "Kitty Smart", and "Jack Smart", was an English poet. He was a major contributor to two popular magazines and a friend to influential cultural icons like Samuel Johnson and Henry Fielding. Smart, a high church Anglican, was widely known throughout...
- Hymns, for the Amusement of Children - George Alexander StevensGeorge Alexander StevensGeorge Alexander Stevens was an English actor, playwright, poet, and songwriter. He was born in the parish of St. Andrews, in Holborn, a neighbourhood of London...
- Songs
Non-fiction
- Alphabetum grandonico-malabaricum sive samscrudonicumAlphabetum grandonico-malabaricum sive samscrudonicumAlphabetum grandonico-malabaricum sive samscrudonicum is a book on the grammar of the South Indian Malayalam language, published in 1772 at the printing press of the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide in Rome. It is believed to be the first book on Malayalam printed in Europe...
(with a preface by Giovanni Cristofano AmaduzziGiovanni Cristofano AmaduzziGiovanni Cristofano Amaduzzi was a distinguished Italian philologist who flourished during the latter half of the eighteenth century....
) - The EncyclopédieEncyclopédieEncyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions, and translations. It was edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert...
in 28 volumes by DiderotDenis DiderotDenis Diderot was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer. He was a prominent person during the Enlightenment and is best known for serving as co-founder and chief editor of and contributor to the Encyclopédie....
, d'AlembertJean le Rond d'AlembertJean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. He was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclopédie...
, and many othersFrench EncyclopédistesThe encyclopédistes were a group of 18th-century writers in France who compiled and wrote the Encyclopédie, edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert. More than a hundred encyclopédistes have been identified. Many were part of the intellectual group known as the philosophes... - Moses BrowneMoses BrowneMoses Browne was a pen-cutter from Clerkenwell, London, England who became a poet and eventually rose amongst the ranks of the Church of England....
- The Excellency of the Knowledge of Jesus Christ - William ChambersWilliam Chambers (architect)Sir William Chambers was a Scottish architect, born in Gothenburg, Sweden, where his father was a merchant. Between 1740 and 1749 he was employed by the Swedish East India Company making several voyages to China where he studied Chinese architecture and decoration.Returning to Europe, he studied...
- A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening - JuniusJuniusJunius was the pseudonym of a writer who contributed a series of letters to the Public Advertiser, from 21 January 1769 to 21 January 1772. The signature had been already used, apparently by him, in a letter of 21 November 1768...
(poss. Philip FrancisPhilip FrancisPhilip Francis may refer to:*Philip Francis , English politician*Francis Philip Francis , English cricketer*Philip Francis , American golfer...
- Junius: Stat Nominis Umbra - Francis GroseFrancis GroseFrancis Grose was an English antiquary, draughtsman, and lexicographer. He was born at his father's house in Broad Street, St-Peter-le-Poer, London, son of a Swiss immigrant and jeweller, Francis Jacob Grose , and his wife, Anne , daughter of Thomas Bennett of Greenford in Middlesex...
- The Antiquities of England and Wales - Richard HurdRichard HurdRichard Hurd was an English divine and writer, and bishop of Worcester.-Life:He was born at Congreve, in the parish of Penkridge, Staffordshire, where his father was a farmer. He was educated at Brewood Grammar School and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He took his B.A. degree in 1739, and in 1742...
- An Introduction to the Study of Prophecies... - Carsten NiebuhrCarsten NiebuhrCarsten Niebuhr or Karsten Niebuhr , a German mathematician, cartographer, and explorer in the service of Denmark, is renowned for his travels on the Arabian peninsula.-Biography:...
- Beschreibung von Arabien - Joseph PriestleyJoseph PriestleyJoseph Priestley, FRS was an 18th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works...
- The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours - Catherine TalbotCatherine TalbotCatherine Talbot was an English author and member of the Blue Stockings Society.-Life:Born in May 1721, was the posthumous and only child of Edward Talbot, second son of William Talbot, bishop of Durham, and his wife Mary , daughter of George Martyn, prebendary of Lincoln. Her uncle Charles...
- Essays on Various Subjects
Births
- April 11 - Manuel José QuintanaManuel José QuintanaManuel José Quintana y Lorenzo , was a Spanish poet and man of letters. He was born at Madrid. After completing his studies at Salamanca he was called to the bar....
, poet - May 2 - NovalisNovalisNovalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg , an author and philosopher of early German Romanticism.-Biography:...
, poet and philosopher - October 21 - Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla...
, poet - November 17 - Marc-Antoine Madeleine DésaugiersMarc-Antoine Madeleine DésaugiersMarc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers was a French composer, dramatist, and song-writer.Note: Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers is easily confused in historical writings with his father, Marc-Antoine Désaugiers Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers (17 November 1772, Fréjus – 9 August 1827) was a French...
, dramatist - November 28 - Johann Gottfried Jakob HermannJohann Gottfried Jakob HermannJohann Gottfried Jakob Hermann was a German classical scholar and philologist.-Biography:He was born at Leipzig. Entering its university at the age of fourteen, Hermann at first studied law, which he soon abandoned for the classics...
, classical commentator and philologist - December 6 - Henry Cary, author, editor and translator
- date unknown - James BallantyneJames BallantyneJames Ballantyne was an editor and publisher who worked for his friend Sir Walter Scott. His brother John Ballantyne was also with the publishing firm, which is noted for the publication of the Novelist's Library , and many works edited or written by Scott.Scott nicknamed both brothers after...
, editor and publisher
Deaths
- March 26 - Charles Pinot DuclosCharles Pinot DuclosCharles Pinot Duclos was a French author.-Life:He was born at Dinan, in Brittany. At an early age, he was sent to study at Paris...
, novelist and historian - March 29 - Emanuel SwedenborgEmanuel Swedenborgwas a Swedish scientist, philosopher, and theologian. He has been termed a Christian mystic by some sources, including the Encyclopædia Britannica online version, and the Encyclopedia of Religion , which starts its article with the description that he was a "Swedish scientist and mystic." Others...
, philosopher - April 22 - Marie FavartMarie FavartMarie-Justine-Benoîte Favart was an opera singer, actress, and dancer, the wife of the dramatist, Charles Simon Favart....
, influential actress and wife of Charles Simon FavartCharles Simon FavartCharles Simon Favart was a French dramatist.Born in Paris, the son of a pastry-cook, he was educated at the college of Louis-le-Grand, and after his father's death he carried on the business for a time...
(b. 1727) - May 22 - Durastante NatalucciDurastante NatalucciDurastante Tommaso Francesco Emiliano Natalucci was an Italian historian who specialized in history of Trevi, in Umbria....
, historian - June - Thomas WhatelyThomas WhatelyThomas Whately , an English politician and writer, was a Member of Parliament , who served as Commissioner on the Board of Trade, as Secretary to the Treasury under Lord Grenville, and as Under- secretary of State under Lord North . As an M.P...
, politician and writer - June 18 - Johann Ulrich von CramerJohann Ulrich von CramerJohann Ulrich von Cramer was an eminent German judge, legal scholar, and Enlightenment philosopher.Cramer was the most important representative of Wolffianism in the area of law; he was first a university professor at the University of Marburg and then one of the highest judges of the Holy Roman...
, philosopher - October 7 - John WoolmanJohn WoolmanJohn Woolman was an American itinerant Quaker preacher who traveled throughout the American colonies and in England, advocating against cruelty to animals, economic injustices and oppression, conscription, military taxation, and particularly slavery and the slave trade.- Origins and early life...
, abolitionist author - November 10 - Pedro Correia GarçãoPedro Correia GarçãoPedro António Joaquim Correia da Serra Garção was a Portuguese lyric poet.-Biography:...
, poet - date unknown - William WilkieWilliam WilkieWilliam Wilkie was a Scottish poet. The son of a farmer, he was born in West Lothian and educated at Edinburgh. In 1757 he published the Epigoniad, dealing with the Epigoni, sons of the seven heroes who fought against Thebes. He also wrote Moral Fables in Verse. In 1756 he entered the Church,...
, poet - date unknown - Margareta MommaMargareta MommaAnna Margareta Momma was a Swedish publisher, managing editor, journalist and feminist. Chronologically, she may be counted as the first professionally active female journalists in Sweden.- Background :...
, editor and writer