1758 in literature
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[edit] Events
- Voltaire buys estate at Ferney.
- Annual Register founded by Edmund Burke and Robert Dodsley.
- Jean-François Marmontel enters the service of Madame de Pompadour.
- Samuel Johnson begins his essay series, The Idler.
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld and her family move to Warrington in Cheshire.
- Pierre Louis Maupertuis moves to his final home at Basel, Switzerland.
- Samuel Johnson launches a new periodical, The Idler.
[edit] New books
- John Armstrong as "Launcelot Temple" - Sketches
- Charlotte Lennox - Henrietta
- Horace Walpole
- A Dialogue Between Two Great Ladies
- Fugitive Pieces
- Sir William Blackstone A Discourse on the Study of the Law
[edit] New drama
- John Cleland - Tombo-Chiqui, or, The American Savage (not produced)
- Denis Diderot - Le père de famille
- Robert Dodsley - Cleone
- David Garrick - Florizel and Perdita
- John Home - Aegis
- Charlotte Lennox - Philander
- Arthur Murphy - The Upholsterer
- George Alexander Stevens - Albion Restored
[edit] Poetry
- Mark Akenside - An Ode to the Country Gentlemen
- John Gilbert Cooper - The Call of Aristippus
- Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim - Preussische Kriegslieder von einem Grenadier
- James Macpherson - The Highlander
- Thomas Parnell - Posthumous Works
[edit] Non-fiction
- William Blackstone - A Discourse on the Study of Law
- John Brown - An Explanatory Defence of the Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times (see 1757)
- Elizabeth Carter ed. - All the Works of Epicetus
- Benjamin Franklin - Father Abraham's Sermon
- Oliver Goldsmith as "James Willington" - The Memoirs of a Protestant
- William Hawkins - Tracts in Divinity
- Claude Adrien Helvétius - De l'Esprit
- Henry Home - Historical Law-Tracts
- Robert Lowth - The Life of William of Wykeham
- Antoine Simon Le Page Du Pratz - Histoire de la Louisiane (History of Louisiana)
- Richard Price - A Review of the Principal Questions and Difficulties in Morals
- Jonathan Swift - The History of the Last Four Years of the Queen
- Horace Walpole - A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England
- Arthur Young - The Theatre of the Present War in North America
[edit] Births
- January 12 - Dmitry Gorchakov (died 1824)
- October 16 - Noah Webster (died 1843)
- December 9 - Richard Colt Hoare (died 1838)
[edit] Deaths
- January 7 - Allan Ramsay, poet (born 1686)
- March 22 - Jonathan Edwards, theologian (born 1703)
- December 25 - James Hervey, religious writer (born 1714)
- date unknown - Theophilus Cibber, dramatist and actor, son of Colley Cibber (born 1703)
