1755 in literature

1755 in literature

"See also:" 1754 in literature, other events of 1755, 1756 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

* Fort Duquesne, the French defeat the English.
* Samuel Johnson publishes his dictionary of the English language.
* "Paradise Lost" is translated into French prose by Louis Racine.

New Books

* "Mémoires de Madame de Maintenon"
* Thomas Amory - "Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain"
* Theophilus Cibber - "An Epistle to David Garrick"
* Philip Doddridge - "Hymns Founded on Various Texts"
* Henry Fielding - "The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon"
* James Hervey - "Theron and Aspasio"
* Benjamin Hoadly - "Twenty Sermons"
* Francis Hutcheson - "A System of Moral Philosophy"
* Samuel Johnson - "A Dictionary of the English Language"
* Frederic Louis Norden - "Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie"
* Charles Wesley - "An Epistle to John Wesley"
* Edward Young - "The Centaur not Fabulous"

Poetry

* John Byrom - "Epistle in Defence of Rhyme"
* George Colman, the Elder and Bonnell Thornton - "Poems by Eminent Laides"
* John Gilbert Cooper - "The Tomb of Shakespear"
* David Dalrymple - "Edom of Gordon"
* Stephen Duck - "Caesar's Camp"

Fiction

* Charlotte Charke - "The History of Mr. Henry Dumont and Miss Charlotte Evelyn"
* Eliza Haywood as "Exploralibus" - "The Invisible Spy"
* Samuel Richardson - "A Collection of ... Sentiments"
* John Shebbeare - "Letters on the English Nation"
* Tobias Smollett - "The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote"

Drama

* John Brown - "Barbarosa"
* John Cleland - "Titus Vespasian"
* Thomas Francklin - "The Orphan of China"
* David Garrick - "The Fairies" (opera)
* David Mallet - "Britannia"

Births

* February 21 : Anne Grant (died 1838)
* George Dyer
* Marie Antoinette

Deaths

* February 10 : Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (born 1689)
* Jane Collier


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