1758 in literature

1758 in literature

"See also:" 1757 in literature, other events of 1758, 1759 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

* Voltaire buys estate at Ferney.
* "Annual Register" founded by Edmund Burke and Robert Dodsley.
* Jean-François Marmontel enters the service of Madame de Pompadour.
* Samuel Johnson begins his essay series, "The Idler".
* Anna Laetitia Barbauld and her family move to Warrington in Cheshire.
* Pierre Louis Maupertuis moves to his final home at Basel, Switzerland.
* Samuel Johnson launches a new periodical, "The Idler".

New books

* John Armstrong as "Launcelot Temple" - "Sketches"
* Charlotte Lennox - "Henrietta"
* Horace Walpole
**"A Dialogue Between Two Great Ladies"
**"Fugitive Pieces"

New drama

* John Cleland - "Tombo-Chiqui, or, The American Savage" (not produced)
* Denis Diderot - "Le père de famille"
* Robert Dodsley - "Cleone"
* David Garrick - "Florizel and Perdita"
* John Home - "Aegis"
* Charlotte Lennox - "Philander"
* Arthur Murphy - "The Upholsterer"
* George Alexander Stevens - "Albion Restored"

Poetry

* Mark Akenside - "An Ode to the Country Gentlemen"
* John Gilbert Cooper - "The Call of Aristippus"
* Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim - "Preussische Kriegslieder von einem Grenadier"
* James Macpherson - "The Highlander"
* Thomas Parnell - "Posthumous Works"

Non-fiction

* William Blackstone - "A Discourse on the Study of Law"
* John Brown - "An Explanatory Defence of the Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times" (see 1757)
* Elizabeth Carter ed. - "All the Works of Epicetus"
* Benjamin Franklin - "Father Abraham's Sermon"
* Oliver Goldsmith as "James Willington" - "The Memoirs of a Protestant"
* William Hawkins - "Tracts in Divinity"
* Claude Adrien Helvétius - "De l'Esprit"
* Henry Home - "Historical Law-Tracts"
* Robert Lowth - "The Life of William of Wykeham"
* Antoine Simon Le Page Du Pratz - "Histoire de la Louisiane" (History of Louisiana)
* Richard Price - "A Review of the Principal Questions and Difficulties in Morals"
* Jonathan Swift - "The History of the Last Four Years of the Queen"
* Horace Walpole - "A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England"
* Arthur Young - "The Theatre of the Present War in North America"

Births

* October 16 - Noah Webster (died 1843)
* December 9 - Richard Colt Hoare (died 1838)

Deaths

*January 7 - Allan Ramsay, poet (born 1686)
*March 22 - Jonathan Edwards, theologian (born 1703)
*December 25 - James Hervey, religious writer (born 1714)
*"date unknown" - Theophilus Cibber, dramatist and actor, son of Colley Cibber (born 1703)


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