1767 in literature

1767 in literature

"See also:" 1766 in literature, other events of 1767, 1768 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

* The tax on tea and paper is imposed on the American colonies, leading to the Boston Tea Party.
* New Testament translated into Manx.
* Richard Price publishes his first volume of sermons.

New books

*"Belisarius" (anonymous)
* James Boswell - "Dorando"
*"The Female American" (anonymous)
* Phebe Gibbes - "The Woman of Fashion"
* Susannah Minifie - "Barford Abbey"
*Frances Sheridan
**"Continuation of the Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph" (posth)
**"The History of Nourjahad"
* Laurence Sterne - "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" vol. ix
* Arthur Young - "The Adventures of Emmera"

New drama

* Richard Bentley - "Philodamus"
* Isaac Bickerstaffe - "Lace in the City"
* George Colman, the Elder - "The English Merchant"
* David Garrick - "Cymon"
* Hall Hartson - "The Countess of Salisbury"
* Arthur Murphy - "The School for Guardians"

Poetry

* Francis Fawkes - "Partridge-Shooting"
* Oliver Goldsmith, ed. - "The Beauties of English Poesy"
* Richard Jago - "Edge-Hill"
* Henry Jones - "Kew Garden"
* Moses Mendes, ed. - "A Collection of the Most Esteemed Pieces of Poetry"
* William Mickle - "The Concubine"
* Christopher Smart, trans. - "The Works of Horace, Translated into Verse"

Non-fiction

* John Byrom - "The Universal English Short-hand"
* William Duff - "An Essay on Original Genius"
* Richard Farmer - "An Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare"
* Adam Ferguson - "An Essay on the History of Civil Society"
* Paul Henry Thiry, Baron d'Holbach -"Christianisme dévoilé"
* Catherine Macaulay - "Loose Remarks on Mr. Hobbes's Philosophical Rudiments of Government and Society" (on Hobbes's 1651 work)
* Joseph Priestley - "The History and Present State of Electricity"
* William Warburton - "Sermons and Discourses"
* Arthur Young - "The Farmer's Letters to the People of England"

Births

* January 1 : Maria Edgeworth (died 1849)
* October 25 : Benjamin Constant (died 1830)
* John Quincy Adams
* Andrew Jackson

Deaths

* July 15 : Michael Bruce (born 1746)
* December 22 : John Newbery, publisher (born 1713)


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