1744 in literature

1744 in literature

The year 1744 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* Samuel Foote makes his debut as an actor.

New books

* Mark Akenside - "The Pleasures of the Imagination"
** - "An Epistle to Curio"
* John Armstrong - "The Art of Preserving Health"
* George Berkeley - "Siris"
* Jane Brereton - "Poems"
* Emilie de Breteuil, marquise du Chatelet -"Dissertation sur la nature et la propagation du feu"
* Colley Cibber - "Another Occasional Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope"
* Mary Collyer - "Felicia to Charlotte" (prose fiction)
* Robert Dodsley - "A Select Collection of Old Plays"
* Sarah Fielding - "The Adventures of David Simple"
* David Garrick - "An Essay on Acting" (attrib.)
* Eliza Haywood - "The Female Spectator" (periodical)
** - "The Fortunate Foundlings" (prose fiction)
* Samuel Johnson - "Life of Savage"
** - "An Account of the Life of John Philip Barretier"
* Edward Moore - "Fables for the Female Sex"
* John Newbery - "A Little Pretty Pocket-Book"
* William Oldys - "The Harleian Miscellany" (introduction by Samuel Johnson)
* Alexander Pope finishes "Essay on Man", with the fourth of the "Epistles: Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to" (4) "Happiness" (the first 2 epistles were written in 1732 and the third in 1733).
* Jonathan Swift - "Three Sermons" (one of the few sermon publications by Swift)
* Joseph Warton - "The Enthusiast"
* Paul Whitehead - "The Gymnasiad"

Published plays

* William Harvard - "Regulus"
* James Miller - "Joseph and his Brethren" (music by Handel)
** - "Mahomet the Imposter" (adapted from Voltaire's "Mahomet")
* Thomas Odell - "The Prodigal"
* James Ralph - "The Astrologer" (adapted from Thomas Tomkis's "Albumazar", which was adapted from Giambattista della Porta's "L'astrologo")

Births

* February 10 - William Mitford, historian (died 1827)
* August 25 - Johann Gottfried Herder, German poet (died 1803)
* "date unknown" - Elsa Fougt, Swedish editor and publisher

Deaths

* May 30 - Alexander Pope (born 1688)
* "unknown date" - Charlotte Fielding, wife of Henry Fielding; she was his model Sophia Western in "Tom Jones"


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