1747 in literature

1747 in literature

The year 1747 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* The Battle of Lauffeldt, where the French defeat the English
* Samuel Johnson begins work on his dictionary of the English language
* David Garrick becomes one of the managers of Drury Lane Theatre

New books

* William Blackstone - "The Pantheon" (attrib)
* Thomas Carte - "A General History of England"
* William Dunkin - "Boetia"
* Thomas Edward - "A Supplement to Mr. Warburton's Edition of Shakespear"
* Henry Fielding, as "John Trott Plaid" - "The Jacobite's Journal" (periodical)
* Sarah Fielding - "Familiar Letters Between the Principal Characters in David Simple" (in defense against unauthorized continuations)
* Samuel Foote - "The Roman and English Comedy Consider'd"
* Philip Francis - "A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace"
* Hannah Glasse - "The Art of Cookery"
* Madame de Graffigny - "Letters from a Peruvian Woman"
* Thomas Gray - "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College"
* Henry Home, Lord Kames - "Essays Upon Several Subjects Concerning British Antiquities"
* Samuel Johnson - "The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language"
* Charlotte Lennox - "Poems"
* George Lyttelton - "Monody" (poetry)
* David Mallet - "Amyntor and Theodora"
* William Mason - "Musaeus: A monody to the memory of Pope" (an imitation of Milton's "Lycidas")
* William Memoth, the younger - "The Letters of Pliny the Consul"
* Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - "Six Town Eclogues"
* Josiah Ralph - "A Miscellany"
* Samuel Richardson - "Clarissa" vol. i - ii
* William Shakespeare - "The Works of Shakespear" (edited by William Warburton)
* Tobias Smollett - "Reproof"
* Joseph Spence - "Polymetis"
* Laurence Sterne - "The Case of Elijah and the Widow of Zerephath"
* Voltaire - "Zadig"
* Horace Walpole - "A Letter to the Whigs"
* Joseph Warton - "Ranelagh House"
* Thomas Warton - "The Pleasures of Melancholy"

New drama

* John Cunningham - "Love in a Mist"
* Benjamin Hoadly the younger - "The Suspicious Husband"
* Edward Moore - "The Foundling"

Births

* January 11 : François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt (died 1827)
* January 15 : John Aikin, English doctor and writer (died 1822)
* December 12 : Anna Seward, English writer (died 1809)

Deaths

* January 16 : Barthold Heinrich Brockes (born 1680)
* November 17 : Alain-René Le Sage, French novelist and playwright (born 1668)
* Leonard Welsted
* Joseph Trapp


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