1756 in literature

1756 in literature

"See also:" 1755 in literature, other events of 1756, 1757 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

* The beginning of the Seven Years War.
* The Black Hole of Calcutta incident inspires renewed British efforts in India.
* Gilbert White becomes curate of Selborne, Hampshire.
* Tobias Smollett becomes editor of the "Literary Review"
* Frances Abington joins the Drury Lane theatre company

New books

* Corporate authorship - "The Literary Magazine" (periodical to 1758)
* Thomas Birch - "The History of the Royal Society of London"
* William Blackstone - "An Analysis of the Laws of England"
* Edmund Burke - "A Vindication of Natural Society"
* Alban Butler - "The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints" (frequently abridged and reprinted)
* Theophilus Cibber - "Dissertations on Theatrical Subjects"
* Johann Matthias Gesner - "Primæ lineæ isagoges in eruditionem universalem"
* Eliza Haywood as "Mira" - "The Wife"
* David Hume - "The History of Great Britain" vol. ii
* Tobias Smollett - "A Compendium of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages"
** "et al." - "The Critical Review" (periodical to 1790)
* Joseph Warton - "An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope"
* John Wesley - "An Address to the Clergy"

Poetry

* Isaac Bickerstaffe - "Leucothoe"
* Richard Owen Cambridge - "An Elegy Written in an Empty Assembly Room" (parody of Pope's "Eloisa to Abelard")
* Thomas Cole - "The Arbour"
* William Kenrick - "Epistles to Lorenzo"
* William Mason - "Odes"
* Christopher Pitt - "Poems"
* Christopher Smart - "Hymn to the Supreme Being"
** - "The Works of Horace"

Fiction

* Anonymous - "The Life and Memoirs of Mr. Ephraim Tristram Bates"
** - "The Paths of Virtue Delineated"
* Thomas Amory - "Life of John Buncle"
* Charlotte Lennox - "The Memoirs of the Countess of Berci"

New drama

* Frances Brooke - "Virginia"
* John Brown -"Athelstane"
* Samuel Foote - "The Englishman Return'd from Paris"
* David Garrick - "Catherine and Petruchio"
** - "The Tempest" (opera)
* John Home - "Douglas"

Births

* March 3 - William Godwin (died 1836)
* November 2 - Pierre Laromiguière, philosopher (died 1837)
* "unknown date" - Thomas Burgess (died 1837)
* (probable) - Mary Robinson (poet) (died 1800)
* Thomas Rowlandson
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Deaths

* February 25 - Eliza Haywood (born 1693)
* Thomas Cooke, first translator of Hesiod into English
* March 30 - April 2 - Stephen Duck, poet, of suicide
* Gilbert West


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