1772 in literature

1772 in literature

"See also:" 1771 in literature, other events of 1772, 1773 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

*May 7 - The Stadsschouwburg theatre in Amsterdam is destroyed by fire.
*June - At Marseilles, the Marquis de Sade embarks on an orgy, as a result of which he is convicted "in absentia" of sodomy and poisoning and receives a death sentence; he escapes.
*Thomas Paine produces his first published work, a political article entitled "Case of the Officers of Excise".
*Gottfried August Bürger obtains a magistracy and is reconciled with his family.
*Charles Burney tours Europe, researching for his "History of Music".
*Hannah More arrives in London.

New books

* Elizabeth Bonhôte - "The Rambles of Mr Frankly, Published by his Sister"
* Sophia Briscoe - "The Fine Lady"
* Robert Fergusson - "The Daft Days"
* Sarah Scott - "The Test of Filial Duty"

New drama

* Richard Cumberland - "The Fashionable Lover"
* David Garrick - "The Irish Widow"
* Gotthold Lessing - "Emilia Galotti"
* Arthur Murphy - "The Grecian Daughter"

Poetry

* Mark Akenside - "Poems"
* Thomas Chatterton - "The Execution of Sir Charles Bawdin"
* Charles Jenner - "Town Eclogues"
* William Jones - "Poems"
* William Kenrick - "Love in the Suds"
* William Mason - "The English Garden"
* Christopher Smart - "Hymns, for the Amusement of Children"
* George Alexander Stevens - "Songs"

Non-fiction

*"Alphabetum grandonico-malabaricum sive samscrudonicum" (with a preface by Giovanni Cristofano Amaduzzi)
*The "Encyclopédie" in 28 volumes by Diderot, d'Alembert, and many others
* Moses Browne - "The Excellency of the Knowledge of Jesus Christ"
* William Chambers - "A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening"
* Junius (poss. Philip Francis - "Junius: Stat Nominis Umbra"
* Francis Grose - "The Antiquities of England and Wales"
* Richard Hurd - "An Introduction to the Study of Prophecies..."
* Carsten Niebuhr - "Beschreibung von Arabien"
* Joseph Priestley - "The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours"
* Catherine Talbot - "Essays on Various Subjects"

Births

*April 11 - Manuel José Quintana, poet
*May 2 - Novalis, poet and philosopher
*October 21 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet
*November 17 - Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers, dramatist
*November 28 - Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann, classical commentator and philologist
*December 6 - Henry Cary, author, editor and translator
*"date unknown" - James Ballantyne, editor and publisher

Deaths

*March 26 - Charles Pinot Duclos, novelist and historian
*March 29 - Emanuel Swedenborg, philosopher
*April 22 - Marie Favart, influential actress and wife of Charles Simon Favart (b. 1727)
*May 22 - Durastante Natalucci, historian
*June - Thomas Whately, politician and writer
*June 18 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, philosopher
*October 7 - John Woolman, abolitionist author
*November 10 - Pedro Correia Garção, poet
*"date unknown" - William Wilkie, poet

Awards

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