1757 in literature

1757 in literature

"See also:" 1756 in literature, other events of 1757, 1758 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

*May 6 - Christopher Smart is admitted to St. Luke's Hospital as a mental patient.
* Jonathan Edwards becomes President of the institution that would later become Princeton University.
* Pierre-Augustin Caron changes his name to Beaumarchais.
* Robert Raikes becomes proprietor of the "Gloucester Journal".
* Thomas Gray turns down the post of Poet Laureate of Great Britain.
* Thomas Warton is appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford.
* Horace Walpole began Strawberry Hill Press.
* The Parlement of Toulouse stages a public burning of Jesuit author Hermann Busenbaum's "Medulla Theologiae Morales", because of its treament of the subject of regicide.

New books

* William Duncombe - "The Works of Horace in English Verse" (various translators).
* Edward and Elizabeth Griffith - "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances" vols. i - ii.
* Madame Riccoboni - "Lettres de Mistriss Fanny Butlerd".

New drama

* Anonymous - "The Taxes"
* Phanuel Bacon - "Humorous Ethics, or an Attempt to Cure the Vices and Follies of the Age by a Method Entirely New" (5 plays)
* Denis Diderot - "Le Fils naturel"
* Samuel Foote - "The Author"
* David Garrick - "Lilliput"
* John Home - "Douglas"
* Tobias Smollett - "The Reprisal"

Poetry

* Robert Andrews - "Eidyllia"
* Cornelius Arnold - "Poems"
* Samuel Boyce - "Poems"
* Robert Colvill - "Britain"
* John Gilbert Cooper as "Aristippus" - "Epistles to the Great"
* John Duncombe - "The Feminead" (answer to 1754's "Feminiad")
* John Dyer - "The Fleece"
* Thomas Gray - "Odes"
* William Thompson - "Poems"
* William Wilkie - "Epigoniad"
* Edward Young - "The Works of the Author of Night Thoughts"

Non-fiction

* John Brown - "An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times"
* Edmund Burke - "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"
*Madame Angelique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray - "Manual on the Art of Childbirth"
* John Dalrymple - "An Essay Towards a General History of Feudal Property in Great Britain"
* Adam Ferguson - "The Morality of Stage-Plays Seriously Considered"
* Sarah Fielding - "The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia"
* David Hume - "The Natural History of Religion".
* Soame Jenyns - "A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil".
* Richard Price - "Review of the Principal Questions in Morals".
* Tobias Smollett - "A Complete History of England".
* William Warburton - "Remarks upon Mr. David Hume's Essay on the Natural History of Religion".
* Joseph Warton - "Essay on Pope".
* John Wesley - "The Doctrine of Original Sin".

Births

*February 1 - John Philip Kemble, actor (d. 1823)
*February 6 - Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, poet and dramatist (died 1841)
*November 13 - Archibald Alison (Scottish author) (died 1839)
*November 18 - William Blake (died 1827)
*"date unknown"
**Giovanni Antonio Galignani, publisher (d. 1821)
**Basilius von Ramdohr, journalist and critic (d. 1822)
**Mary Robinson, poet and royal mistress (died 1800)
**William Sotheby, poet and translator (d. 1833)

Deaths

*January 9 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, dramatist and author (born 1657)
*March 1 - Edward Moore, dramatist (born 1712)
*March 8 - Thomas Blackwell, classicist (born 1701)
*August 28 - David Hartley, philosopher and psychologist (born 1705)
*November 12 - Colley Cibber, Poet Laureate (born 1671)
*December - John Dyer, poet (born 1701)


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