1774 in literature

1774 in literature

Events

* The First Continental Congress in America.
* Joseph Priestley refines oxygen.
* Johann Gottlob Schneider becomes secretary to Richard François Philippe Brunck.

New books

* Jeremy Bentham - "The White Bull"
* Henry Brooke - "Juliet Grenville"
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - "The Sorrows of Young Werther"
* Charles Johnstone - "The History of Arsaces"
*"The Newgate Calendar"

New drama

* Miles Peter Andrews - "The Election"
* John Burgoyne - "The Maid of the Oaks"
* George Colman the Elder - "The Man of Business"
* Charles Dibdin - "The Waterman"
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - "Clavigo"
* Thomas Hull - "Henry the Second"
* Hugh Kelly - "The Romance of an Hour"

Poetry

* James Beattie - "The Minstrel", volume 2
* William Dunkin - "Poetical Works"
* Oliver Goldsmith - "Retaliation"
* Richard Graves - "The Progress of Gallantry"
* William Mason - "An Heroic Postscript to the Public"
* Hannah More - "The Inflexible Captive"
* Henry James Pye - "Farringdon Hill"
* Mary Scott - "The Female Advocate"
* William Whitehead - "Plays and Poems, by William Whitehead, Esq. Poet Laureat"

Non-fiction

* Giacomo Casanova – "Istoria delle turbolenze della Polonia"
* Joseph Cradock - "Village Memoirs"
* Martin Gerbert – "De cantu et musica sacra"
* Oliver Goldsmith - "The Grecian History"
** - "An History of the Earth and Animated Nature"
* Henry Home - "Sketches of the History of Man"
* Thomas Jefferson - "A Summary View of the Rights of British America"
* Samuel Johnson - "The Patriot"
* Antoine Simon Le Page Du Pratz - "The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina"; an English translation, in one volume, of "Histoire de la Louisiane", published in 1758
* Joseph Priestly - "Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air"
* William Richardson - "A Philosophical Analysis and Illustration of Some of Shakespeare's Remarkable Characters"
* William Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield - "Letters to his Son"
* Horace Walpole - "A Description of Strawberry-Hill"
* Thomas Warton - "The History of English Poetry"
* John Wesley - "Thoughts upon Slavery"

Births

* January 1 - Pietro Giordani, translator, scholar and writer (died 1848)
* February 24 - Archibald Constable, publisher (died 1827)
* August 12 - Robert Southey, poet (died 1843)

Deaths

* April 4 - Oliver Goldsmith, dramatist (born 1728/1730)
* April 28 - Gottfried Lengnich, historian (born 1689)
* October 16 - Robert Fergusson, poet (born 1750) (brain damage)

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