1782 in literature
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[edit] Events
- Charles Dibdin becomes joint manager of the Royal Circus, afterwards known as the Surrey Theatre.
- William Blake first meets his patron, John Flaxman.
- The Siku Quanshu is completed, the largest literary compilation in China's history. The books are bound in 36,381 volumes with more than 79,000 chapters comprising about 2.3 million pages and approximately 800 million Chinese characters.
[edit] New books
- Elizabeth Blower - George Bateman
- Fanny Burney - Cecilia
- J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur - Letters from an American Farmer
- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - Les liaisons dangereuses
- Betje Wolff - Historie van mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart
[edit] New drama
- Vittorio Alfieri - Saul
- Hannah Cowley - The Belle's Stratagem
- Richard Cumberland - The Walloons
- Denis Fonvizin - The Minor
- Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian - Le Bon Ménage
[edit] New poetry
Main article: 1782 in poetry
- William Cowper
- John Freeth - Modern Songs
- William Hayley - An Essay on Epic Poetry in Five Epistles to Mason
- William Mason
- An Archaeological Epistle to Jeremiah Milles....
- King Stephen's Watch
- Hannah More - Sacred Dramas for Young Persons
- Edward Rushton - The Dismember'd Empire (attrib.)
- John Scott - Poetical Works
- Helen Maria Williams - Edwin and Eltruda
- John Wolcot as "Peter Pindar" - Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians
[edit] Non-fiction
- Thomas Day - Reflections upon the Present State of England, and the Independence of America
- William Gilpin - Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales
- Edmund Malone - Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (debunking Chatterton's hoax)
- John Nichols - Biographical and Literary Anecdotes of William Bowyer
- Thomas Pennant - The Journey from Chester to London
- Isaac Reed - Biographia Dramatica
- Joseph Ritson - Observations on the First Three Volumes of the History of English Poetry (on Thomas Warton)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Confessions
- Ignatius Sancho - Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African
- Thomas Spence - The History of Crusonia on Robinson Crusoe's Island
- Thomas Tyrwhitt - A Vindication of the Appendix to the Poems, called Rowley's
- Joseph Warton - An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope
- Thomas Warton - An Enquiry into the Authenticity of the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley
[edit] Births
- April 16 - William Jerdan, journalist (d. 1869)
- June 9 - Peter Fisher, Canadian historian (d. 1848)
- unknown date
- Charlotte Dacre, English novelist (d. 1841)
- Grace Kennedy, Scottish novelist (d. 1825)
- Georg Koës, philologist (d. 1811)
[edit] Deaths
- January 1 - Juan Crespí, explorer and diarist (b. 1721)
- February 10 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, theosopher (b. 1702)
- February 14 - Thomas Newton, Biblical commentator (b. 1704)
- April 12 - Metastasio, Italian poet (b. 1698)
- December 27 - Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish philosopher (b. 1696)
- date unknown - Jean-Martin de Prades, theologian (b. c. 1720)
