1760 in literature

1760 in literature

The year 1760 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* The death of George II leads to the accession of George III of the United Kingdom.
*James Beattie becomes a professor at the University of Aberdeen.
*Fanny Burney and her family move to London.
*Edward III (play) attributed to William Shakespeare by Edward Capell.
*The MS NKS 1867 4° (Den nye kongelige samling) manuscript is authored.

New books

* John Balguy - Sermons, vol. 2 (posthumously published)
* William Law - "Of Justification by Faith and Works"
* John Shebbeare - "The History of the Sumatrans" (satire on the Whigs)
* Tobias Smollett - "The British Magazine" (periodical)
* Laurence Sterne - "The Sermons of Mr. Yorick" (the author's sermons)
* William Tytler - "An Historical and Critical Inquiry into the Evidence Against Mary Queen of Scots"

Poetry

* James Beattie - "Original Poems and Translations"
* George Colman the Elder - "Odes"
* John Delap - "Elegies"
* Robert Lloyd - "The Actor"
** - "The Tears and Triumphs of Parnassus"
* George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton - "Dialogues of the Dead"
* James Macpherson as "translator" - "Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland"
* James Scott - "Heaven"
* John Scott - "Four Elegies"

Fiction

* Anonymous - "Yorick's Meditations upon Various Interesting and Important Subjects" (an imitation of "Tristram Shandy")
* Frances Brooke - "Letters from Juliet"
* John Cleland - "The Romance of a Day"
* Sarah Fielding - "The History of Ophelia"
* Charles Johnstone - "Chrysal" vols. i - ii
* Tobias Smollett - "The Life and Adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves"

New drama

* George Colman the Elder – "Polly Honeycomb"
* Carlo Goldoni - "La casa nova"
** - "I rusteghi"
* Samuel Foote - "The Minor"
* John Home - "The Siege of Aquileia"
* Arthur Murphy - "The Desert Island"
** - "The Way to Keep Him"
* George Alexander Stevens - "The French Flogged"

Births

* March 10 - Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist & poet (died 1828)
* May 10 - Johann Peter Hebel (died 1826)
* June 12 - Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, French novelist, playwright, journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1797)
* October 25 - Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren, German historian (died 1842)

Deaths

* March 28 - Margaret Woffington, noted actress, subject of Charles Reade's novel, "Peg Woffington" (born c.1720)
*April 6 - Charlotte Charke, novelist and dramatist, daughter of Colley Cibber (born 1713)
*April 10 - Jean Lebeuf, historian (born 1687)
*"date unknown" - Isaac Hawkins Browne (poet) (born 1705)
*"date unknown" - Browne Willis, historian (born 1682)


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