1759 in literature

1759 in literature

"See also:" 1758 in literature, other events of 1759, 1760 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

* The Battle of Quebec and the Heights of Abraham see the British defeat the French.
* Denis Diderot's "Encyclopédie" is formally suppressed by the French government.
* Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch becomes professor of rhetoric and poetry at the University of Jena.
* William Warburton becomes Bishop of Gloucester.
* The opening of the British Museum in January.

New books

* Edmund Burke - "The Annual Register"
* Alexander Gerard - "An Essay on Taste"
* Oliver Goldsmith - "The Bee" (periodical solely by Goldsmith)
** - "An Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe"
* David Hume - "The History of England, Under the House of Tudor"
* Richard Hurd - "Moral and Political Dialogues"
* Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon - "The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon Written by Himself" (autobiography)
* Mary Latter - "Miscellaneous Works"
* William Robertson - "The History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James"
* Adam Smith - "Theory of Moral Sentiments"
* Arthur Young - ""Reflections on the Present State of Affairs at Home and Abroad"
* Edward Young - "Conjectures on Original Composition"

Poetry

* Samuel Butler - "The Genuine Remains" (collected works)
* Edward Capell - "Prolusions"
* John Gilbert Cooper - "Ver-Vert" (transl.)
* William Mason - "Caractacus"
* Augustus Montague Toplady - "Poems on Sacred Subjects"

Fiction

* Sarah Fielding - "The History of the Countess of Dellwyn"
* Samuel Johnson - "The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia" (on ).
* Gotthold Lessing - "Fables"
* William Rider - "Candidus" (a translation of "Candide")
* Laurence Sterne - "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" vols i - ii.
* Voltaire - "Candide"

Published drama

* William Hawkins - "Cymbeline" (adapted from William Shakespeare)
* Arthur Murphy - "The Orphan of China"
* James Townley - "High Life Below Stairs"

Births

*January 25 - Robert Burns, poet (died 1796)
*March 29 - Alexander Chalmers, journalist (died 1834)
*April 27 - Mary Wollstonecraft, feminist writer (died 1797)
*November 10 - Friedrich Schiller, poet and dramatist (died 1805)
*December 25 - Richard Porson, classical scholar (died 1808)
* William Wilberforce, abolitionist and reformer.

Deaths

*June 12 - William Collins, poet (born 1721)
*July 27 - Pierre Louis Maupertuis, philosopher (born 1698)
*August 6 - Eugene Aram, philologist (born 1704)
*August 24 - Ewald Christian von Kleist, poet (born 1715)
*September 5 - Lauritz de Thurah, architectural historian (born 1706)
*October 7 - Joseph Ames, bibliographer (born 1680)
*"probable" - Anton Wilhelm Amo, philosopher (born 1703)
* George Frederick Handel, composer


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