1754 in literature

1754 in literature

"See also:" 1753 in literature, other events of 1754, 1755 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

* Frances Sheridan and her husband arrive in London from Ireland.

New books

* Anonymous - "Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa and Pamela"
* Thomas Birch - "Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth"
* Charles Bonnet - "Essai de psychologie"
* John Gilbert Cooper - "Letters Concerning Taste"
* John Douglas -"Letter on the Criterion of Miracles"
* John Gillies - "Historical Collections Relating to Remarkable Period of the Success of the Gospel"
* Zachary Grey - "Crticial, Historical, and Explanatory Notes on Shakespeare"
* Benjamin Hoadly - "Sixteen Sermons"
* David Hume - "History of Great Britain" (volume 1)
* William Law - "The Second Part of the Spirit of Love"
* Francis Plumer - "A Candid Examination of the History of Sir Charles Grandison"
* Jean-Jacques Rousseau - "Discourse on Inequality"
* Henry St. John - "Philosophical Works"
* Jonathan Swift - "Brotherly Love"
** - "The Works of Jonathan Swift" (the Hawkesworth edition)
* William Warburton - "A View of Lord Bolingbroke's Philosophy"
* Thomas Warton - "Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser"

Fiction

* Jane Collier and Sarah Fielding - ""
* Mary Davys - "The Reformed Coquet; or Memoirs of Amoranda"
* Henry Fielding - "The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great" (enlarged and expanded from the "Miscellanies" of 1743)
* Sarah Scott:
** "Agreeable Ugliness"
** "A Journey Through Every Stage of Life"
* John Shebbeare - "The Marriage Act"
* Horace Walpole - "The Castle of Otranto"

Poetry

* Thomas Cooke - "An Ode on Poetry, Painting, and Sculpture"
* Thomas Denton - "Immortality"
* John Duncombe - "The Feminiad"
* Henry Jones - "The Relief"
* William Whitehead - "Poems"

Drama

* John Gay - "The Rehearsal at Goatham"
* McNamara Morgan:
**"Philoclea" (from Sir Philip Sidney's "Arcadia")
**"The Sheep-Shearing, or Florizel and Perdita" (a farce adapted from "The Winter's Tale")

Births

*July 11 - Thomas Bowdler (died 1825)
*December 24 - George Crabbe (died 1832)

Deaths

*January 28 - Ludvig Holberg (born 1684)
*April 2 - Thomas Carte (born 1686)
*April 9 - Christian Wolff (philosopher) (born 1679)
*October 8 - Henry Fielding (born 1707)
* Jane Collier
* James Gibbs


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