1772 in literature
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See also: 1771 in literature, other events of 1772, 1773 in literature, list of years in literature.
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| … 1762 . 1763 . 1764 . 1765 . 1766 . 1767 . 1768 … 1769 1770 1771 -1772- 1773 1774 1775 … 1776 . 1777 . 1778 . 1779 . 1780 . 1781 . 1782 … In poetry: 1769 1770 1771 -1772- 1773 1774 1775 |
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| … 1769 . 1770 . 1771 - 1772 - 1773 . 1774 . 1775 … … 1740s . 1750s . 1760s -1770s- 1780s . 1790s . 1800s |
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[edit] Events
- May 7 - The Stadsschouwburg theatre in Amsterdam is destroyed by fire.
- June - At Marseilles, the Marquis de Sade 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 Paine produces his first published work, a political article entitled Case of the Officers of Excise.
- Gottfried August Bürger obtains a magistracy and is reconciled with his family.
- Charles Burney tours Europe, researching for his History of Music.
- Hannah More arrives in London.
[edit] New books
- Elizabeth Bonhôte - The Rambles of Mr Frankly, Published by his Sister
- Sophia Briscoe - The Fine Lady
- Robert Fergusson - The Daft Days
- Sarah Scott - The Test of Filial Duty
[edit] New drama
- Richard Cumberland - The Fashionable Lover
- Samuel Foote - The Nabob
- David Garrick - The Irish Widow
- Gotthold Lessing - Emilia Galotti
- Arthur Murphy - The Grecian Daughter
[edit] Poetry
- Mark Akenside - Poems
- Thomas Chatterton - The Execution of Sir Charles Bawdin
- Charles Jenner - Town Eclogues
- William Jones - Poems, Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick Languages
- William Kenrick - Love in the Suds
- [[William Mason (poet)}William Mason]] - The English Garden
- Christopher Smart - Hymns, for the Amusement of Children
- George Alexander Stevens - Songs
[edit] Non-fiction
- Alphabetum grandonico-malabaricum sive samscrudonicum (with a preface by Giovanni Cristofano Amaduzzi)
- The Encyclopédie in 28 volumes by Diderot, d'Alembert, and many others
- Moses Browne - The Excellency of the Knowledge of Jesus Christ
- William Chambers - A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening
- Junius (poss. Philip Francis - Junius: Stat Nominis Umbra
- Francis Grose - The Antiquities of England and Wales
- Richard Hurd - An Introduction to the Study of Prophecies...
- Carsten Niebuhr - Beschreibung von Arabien
- Joseph Priestley - The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours
- Catherine Talbot - Essays on Various Subjects
[edit] Births
- April 11 - Manuel José Quintana, poet
- May 2 - Novalis, poet and philosopher
- October 21 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet
- November 17 - Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers, dramatist
- November 28 - Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann, classical commentator and philologist
- December 6 - Henry Cary, author, editor and translator
- date unknown - James Ballantyne, editor and publisher
[edit] Deaths
- March 26 - Charles Pinot Duclos, novelist and historian
- March 29 - Emanuel Swedenborg, philosopher
- April 22 - Marie Favart, influential actress and wife of Charles Simon Favart (b. 1727)
- May 22 - Durastante Natalucci, historian
- June - Thomas Whately, politician and writer
- June 18 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, philosopher
- October 7 - John Woolman, abolitionist author
- November 10 - Pedro Correia Garção, poet
- date unknown - William Wilkie, poet
- date unknown - Margareta Momma, editor and writer
