1763 in literature

1763 in literature

"See also:" 1762 in literature, other events of 1763, 1764 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

* John Wilkes was arrested for his writings in "The North Briton"
* Marriage of Henry Thrale and Hester Thrale, later close friends and companions of Dr Samuel Johnson.
*May 16 - James Boswell is introduced to Samuel Johnson at Thomas Davies's bookshop in London

New books

* Frances Brooke - "The History of Lady Julia Mandeville"
* Susannah Minifie and Margaret Minifie - "The Histories of Lady Frances S---- and Lady Caroline S----"
* John Langhorne - "The Letters that Passed Between Theodosius and Constantia"
*"The Peregrinations of Jeremiah Grant" (anonymous)
*Cao Xueqin - "The Chronicles of the Stone"

New drama

* Isaac Bickerstaffe - "Love in a Village" (opera)
* George Colman the Elder - "The Deuce is in Him"
* Mary Latter - "The Siege of Jerusalem"
* David Mallet - "Elvira"
* Arthur Murphy - "The Citizen"
* Frances Sheridan - "The Discovery"

Poetry

* Richard Bentley the Younger - "Patriotism"
* Charles Churchill
**"The Author"
**"The Conference"
**"An Epistle to William Hogarth"
**"The Prophecy of Famine"
**"Poems"
* John Collier - "Tim Bobbin's Toy-shop"
* George Keate - "The Alps"
* Robert Lloyd - "The Death of Adam"
* James Macpherson as "Ossian" - "Temora"
* William Mason - "Elegies"
* James Merrick - "Poems"
* Christopher Smart - "A Song to David"

Non-fiction

* John Ash - "Grammatical Institutes"
* Hugh Blair - "A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian"
* John Brown - "A Dissertation on Poetry and Music"
* Philip Doddridge - "A Course of Lectures on the Principal Subjects in Pneumatology, Ethics, and Divinity"
* Immanuel Kant - "The Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of the Existence of God"
* Antoine Simon Le Page Du Pratz - "History of Louisiana"; an English translation, in two volumes, of "Histoire de la Louisiane", published in 1758
* Catharine Macaulay - "The History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line"
* Mary Wortley Montagu - "Letters"
* Robert Orme - "A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan from the Year 1745"
* Henry Venn - "The Complete Duty of Man"
* William Warburton - "The Doctrine of Grace"
* John Wesley - "A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation"

Births

* January 29 - Johann Gottfried Seume, travel writer (died 1810)
* March 9 - William Cobbett, journalist (died 1835)
* July 30 - Samuel Rogers, poet (died 1855)
* September 2 - Karoline Schelling, literary critic (died 1809)
*"date unknown" - Shen Fu, Chinese chronicler (died c. 1810)

Deaths

*January 11 - Caspar Abel, poet and theologian (born 1676)
*February 11 - William Shenstone, poet (born 1714)
*June 29 - Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Swedish poet and salon hostess (born 1718)
*September 26 - John Byrom, poet (born 1692)
*December 23 - Antoine François Prévost, French author, better known as the Abbé Prévost (born 1697)
*"date unknown" - Cao Xueqin, Chinese novelist (born c. 1715)


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