1771 in literature
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[edit] Events
- April 9 - Pedro Correia Garção is arrested and committed to prison by Sebastião de Melo, Marquis of Pombal.
- Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling inaugurates the fashion for the "sentimental" novel.
[edit] New books
- Claude Joseph Dorat - Les Sacrifices de l'amour
- Elizabeth Griffith - The History of Lady Barton
- The History of Sir William Harrington (anonymous)
- John Langhorne - Letters to Eleonara
- Henry Mackenzie - The Man of Feeling
- Tobias Smollett - The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
[edit] New drama
- Isaac Bickerstaffe - He Wou'd If He Cou'd
- Joseph Cradock - Zobeide
- Richard Cumberland - The West Indian
- Denis Diderot - Le Fils Naturel
- Carlo Goldoni - Le Bourru Bienfaisant
- Hugh Kelly - Clementina
- George Alexander Stevens - The Fair Orphan
[edit] Poetry
- James Beattie - The Minstrel
- James Cawthorn - Poems
- John Langhorne - The Fables of Flora
- Thomas Percy - The Hermit of Warkworth
- Henry James Pye - The Triumph of Fashion
[edit] Non-fiction
- John Brown - Description of the Lake of Keswick
- Charles Burney - The Present State of Music in France and Italy
- John Dalrymple - Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland
- Oliver Goldsmith - The History of England
- Samuel Johnson - Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands
- Thomas Pennant - A Tour in Scotland
- William Smellie - Encyclopaedia Britannica (in 100 volumes)
- John Wesley - Works
- Arthur Young - The Farmer's Tour Through the East of England
[edit] Births
- June 13 - Sydney Smith, author (died 1845)
- August 15 - Walter Scott, novelist (died 1832)
- September 11 - Mungo Park, explorer (died 1806)
- December 25 - Dorothy Wordsworth, poet (died 1855)
- date unknown - John Lingard, priest, author (died 1851)
[edit] Deaths
- May 21 - Christopher Smart, poet (born 1722)
- July 30 - Thomas Gray, poet (* 1716)
- September 17 - Tobias Smollett, novelist, journalist, translator (born 1721)
- October 14 - John Gill, theologian (born 1697)
- December 26 - Claude Adrien Helvétius, philosopher (born 1715)
- probable - Henry Mill, inventor of the typewriter (born c. 1683)
