1758 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1758.
Events
- April 15 – Samuel Johnson begins publishing a series of essays, The Idler (1758–1760), in the Universal Chronicle.
- April 24 – Robert Dodsley and his brother James sign a contract with Edmund Burke to launch The Annual Register.
- April 27 – The French historian Jean-François Marmontel enters the service of Madame de Pompadour.[1]
- July/August – The poet and children's writer Anna Laetitia Barbauld and her family move to Warrington in north-west England.[2]
- October – Voltaire buys an estate at Ferney in eastern France.[3]
- unknown date – The French mathematician and philosopher Pierre Louis Maupertuis moves to his final home in Basel, Switzerland.
New books
Prose
- John Armstrong as Launcelot Temple – Sketches, or, Essays on Various Subjects
- Charlotte Lennox – Henrietta
- Thomas Marryat – Therapeutics, or a New Practice of Physic (in Latin)
- Madame Riccoboni – Histoire du marquis de Cressy
- Horace Walpole
- A Dialogue Between Two Great Ladies
- Fugitive Pieces
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
Poetry
- Mark Akenside – An Ode to the Country Gentlemen
- Anica Bošković – Dijalog
- John Gilbert Cooper – The Call of Aristippus
- Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim – Preussische Kriegslieder von einem Grenadier (Prussian War Songs of a Grenadier)
- Eugenio Gerardo Lobo – Obras poéticas
- James Macpherson – The Highlander
- Thomas Parnell – Posthumous Works
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)
- Andrés Marcos Burriel – Paleografía española
- Elizabeth Carter (translator) – All the Works of Epictetus Which Are Now Extant
- José Francisco de Isla – Historia del famoso predicador Fray Gerundio de Campazas, alias Zotes
- 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
- Thomas Marryat – Therapeutics, or a New Practice of Physic
- Antoine-Joseph Pernety
- Dictionnaire mytho-hermétique, dans lequel on trouve les allégories fabuleuses des poètes, les métaphores, les énigmes et les termes barbares des philosophes hermétiques expliqués
- Les Fables égyptiennes et grecques dévoilées et réduites au même principe, avec une explication des hiéroglyphes et de la guerre de Troye
- 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
- Emanuel Swedenborg
- Earths in the Universe
- Heaven and Hell
- New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine
- The Last Judgement
- 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
Births
- January 12 – Dmitry Gorchakov, Russian writer, dramatist and poet (died 1824)
- February 3
- Vasily Kapnist, Ukrainian poet and playwright (died 1823)
- Valentin Vodnik, Carniolan Slovene poet, writer and priest (died 1819)
- February 10 – Amalia Holst, German writer, intellectual, and feminist (died 1829)
- March 15 – Magdalene Sophie Buchholm, Norwegian poet (died 1826)
- April 30 – Jane West (Prudentia Homespun), English novelist and writer of conduct books (died 1852)
- October 16 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer (died 1843)
- December 9 – Richard Colt Hoare, English antiquary, archeologist and traveler (died 1838)
Deaths
- January 7 – Allan Ramsay the Elder, Scottish poet (born 1686)
- March 22 – Jonathan Edwards, American theologian and preacher (born 1703)
- October – Theophilus Cibber, English dramatist and actor (born 1703; lost at sea)[4]
- October 27 bur. – Elizabeth Blackwell, Scottish botanic writer and illustrator (born 1707)
- December 25 – James Hervey, English religious writer and cleric (born 1714)
References
- ^ Michael Cardy (1982). The Literary Doctrines of Jean-François Marmontel. Voltaire Foundation at the Taylor Institution. pp. 3–6. ISBN 978-0-7294-0287-3.
- ^ William McCarthy (2008). Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voice of the Enlightenment. JHU Press. p. 570. ISBN 978-0-8018-9016-1.
- ^ Ian Davidson (9 December 2010). Voltaire: A Life. Profile Books. p. 351. ISBN 1-84765-224-7.
- ^ Barker, Richard Hindry (1939) Mr Cibber of Drury Lane, New York: Columbia University Press. p193