1779 in literature
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[edit] Events
- William Blake enrols at the Royal Academy
- April 6 - Premiėre of Iphigenie auf Tauris by Johann Wolfgang Goethe.
[edit] New books
- Richard Graves - Columella
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi - Woldemar
- Ignacy Krasicki - Fables and Parables (Bajki i przypowieści)
- Nocturnal Revels
- Samuel Jackson Pratt as "Courtney Melmoth"
- Shenstone-Green
- The Tutor of Truth
- The Sorrows of Werter (anonymous translation of the work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
[edit] New drama
- Fanny Burney - The Witlings
- Hannah Cowley
- Albina, Countess Raimond
- Who's the Dupe
- Richard Cumberland - Calypso
- Hugh Downman - Lucius Junius Brutus
- Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian - Les Deux Billets
- Robert Jephson - The Law of Lombardy
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Nathan der Weise
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan - The Critic
[edit] New poetry
Main article: 1779 in poetry
- William Cowper and John Newton - Olney Hymns
- Robert Furgusson - Poems
- William Hayley - Epistle to Admiral Keppel
- Ann Murry - Poems
[edit] Non-fiction
- Anna Barbauld - Lessons for Children
- James Burnett - Antient Metaphysics
- Edward Capell - Notes and Various Readings to Shakespeare
- George Chalmers - Political Annals of the Present United Colonies
- Edward Gibbon - A Vindication of Some Passages in the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- David Hume - Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
- Samuel Johnson - Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets
- Vicessimus Knox - Essays
- John Moore - A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany
- Horace Walpole - A Letter to the Editor of the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton
[edit] Births
- January 18 - Peter Mark Roget, lexicographer (died 1869)
- March 1 - Gottfried Weber, writer on music (died 1839)
- May 28 - Thomas Moore, poet and songwriter (died 1852)
- August 1 - Francis Scott Key, poet (died 1843)
- December 22 - Thomas Gaisford, classical scholar (died 1855)
[edit] Deaths
- January 20 - David Garrick, actor and theatre impresario (born 1717)
- March 4 - Heinrich Leopold Wagner, dramatist (born 1747)
- June 7 - William Warburton, theologian and literary critic (born 1698)
- June 10 - William Kenrick, novelist, playwright, translator and satirist (born c.1725)
- December 22 - István Küzmics, Slovenian Lutheran writer (born c.1723)
- date unknown - Jane Gomeldon, poet and adventurer
