1779 in literature

1779 in literature

Events

* Spain wages war against the United Kingdom.
* The beginning of the Epsom Derby.
* The victory of John Paul Jones in the American Revolutionary War.
* William Blake enrolls at the Royal Academy
* "Iphigenie auf Tauris" by Johann Wolfgang Goethe is premiered on April 6.

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)

New drama

* Fanny Burney - "The Witlings"
* Hannah Cowley
**"Albina, Countess Raimond"
**"Who's the Dupe"
* Richard Cumberland - "Calypso"
* Hugh Downman - "Lucius Junius Brutus"
* Robert Jephson - "The Law of Lombardy"
*Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - "Nathan der Weise"

Poetry

* William Cowper and John Newton - "Olney Hymns"
* Robert Furgusson - "Poems"
* William Hayley - "Epistle to Admiral Keppel"
* Ann Murry - "Poems"

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 Hisotry 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"

Births

* January 18 - Peter Roget
* May 28 - Thomas Moore
* August 1 - Francis Scott Key
* December 22 - Thomas Gaisford

Deaths

* January 20 - David Garrick
* June 7 - William Warburton


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