1757 in literature
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[edit] Events
- May 6 - Poet Christopher Smart is confined to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London.[1]
- Jonathan Edwards becomes President of the institution that would later become Princeton University.
- Pierre-Augustin Caron changes his name to Beaumarchais.
- Robert Raikes becomes proprietor of the Gloucester Journal.
- Thomas Gray turns down the post of Poet Laureate of Great Britain.
- Thomas Warton is appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford.
- Horace Walpole began Strawberry Hill Press.
- The Parlement of Toulouse stages a public burning of Jesuit author Hermann Busenbaum's Medulla Theologiae Morales, because of its treatment of the subject of regicide.
[edit] New books
- William Duncombe - The Works of Horace in English Verse (various translators).
- Edward and Elizabeth Griffith - A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances vols. i - ii.
- Madame Riccoboni - Lettres de Mistriss Fanny Butlerd.
[edit] New drama
- Anonymous - The Taxes
- Phanuel Bacon - Humorous Ethics, or an Attempt to Cure the Vices and Follies of the Age by a Method Entirely New (5 plays)
- Denis Diderot - Le Fils naturel
- Samuel Foote - The Author
- David Garrick - Lilliput
- John Home - Douglas
- Tobias Smollett - The Reprisal
[edit] Poetry
- Robert Andrews - Eidyllia
- Cornelius Arnold - Poems
- Samuel Boyce - Poems
- Robert Colvill - Britain
- John Gilbert Cooper as "Aristippus" - Epistles to the Great
- John Duncombe - The Feminead (answer to 1754's Feminiad)
- John Dyer - The Fleece
- Thomas Gray - Odes
- William Thompson - Poems
- William Wilkie - Epigoniad
- Edward Young - The Works of the Author of Night Thoughts
[edit] Non-fiction
- John Brown - An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times
- Edmund Burke - A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
- John Dalrymple - An Essay Towards a General History of Feudal Property in Great Britain
- Adam Ferguson - The Morality of Stage-Plays Seriously Considered
- Sarah Fielding - The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia
- David Hume - The Natural History of Religion.
- Soame Jenyns - A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil.
- Richard Price - Review of the Principal Questions in Morals.
- Tobias Smollett - A Complete History of England.
- William Warburton - Remarks upon Mr. David Hume's Essay on the Natural History of Religion.
- Joseph Warton - Essay on Pope.
- John Wesley - The Doctrine of Original Sin.
[edit] Births
- February 1 - John Philip Kemble, actor (d. 1823)
- February 6 - Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, poet and dramatist (d. 1841)
- November 9 - William Sotheby, poet and translator (d. 1833)
- November 13 - Archibald Alison (Scottish author) (d. 1839)
- November 18 - William Blake, poet and artist (d. 1827)
- November 27 (possible date) - Mary Robinson, poet, actress and royal mistress (d. 1800)
- date unknown
- Giovanni Antonio Galignani, publisher (d. 1821)
- Basilius von Ramdohr, journalist and critic (d. 1822)
[edit] Deaths
- January 9 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, dramatist and author (b. 1657)
- March 1 - Edward Moore, dramatist (b. 1712)
- March 8 - Thomas Blackwell, classicist (b. 1701)
- August 28 - David Hartley, philosopher and psychologist (b. 1705)
- November 12 - Colley Cibber, Poet Laureate (b. 1671)
- December - John Dyer, poet (b. 1701)
[edit] References
- ^ Sherbo, Arthur (1967). Christopher Smart: Scholar of the University. Michigan State University Press. p. 112. He may have been confined in a private madhouse before this.
