1768 in literature

1768 in literature

"See also:" 1767 in literature, other events of 1768, 1769 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

* The organization and first meeting of the Royal Academy of Art, with Joshua Reynolds as its president.
* John Wilkes is elected to Parliament. On May 10, he John Wilkes is imprisoned for attacking King George III in print.
* Thomas Gray succeeds Lawrence Brockett as Regis Professor of History at Cambridge.
* The Ladies of Llangollen meet for the first time.

New books

* Anonymous - "L'ingénu" (translation of Voltaire)
* John Cleland - "The Woman of Honour" (attrib.)
* Alexander Dow, (trans) - "Tales Translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi"

New drama

* Isaac Bickerstaffe - "Lionel and Clarissa"
** - "The Padlock"
* Oliver Goldsmith - "The Good-natur'd Man"
* John Hoole - "Cyrus"
* Thomas Hull - "The Royal Merchant"
* Hugh Kelly - "False Delicacy"
* Arthur Murphy - "Zenobia"
* Horace Walpole - "The Mysterious Mother"

Poetry

* Isaac Hawking Browne - "Poems"
* Thomas Gray - "Poems"
* Richard Jago - "Labour and Genius"
* Edward Jerningham - "Amabella"
* Mary Wortley Montagu - "Poetical Works"
* Henry James Pye - "Elegies"
* Alexander Ross - "The Fortunate Shepherdess"
* William Shakespeare - "Mr. William Shakespeare His Comedies, Histories and Tragedies"
* Christopher Smart - "The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ"
* William Wilkie - "Fables"

Non-fiction

* James Boswell - "An Account of Corsica"
* Oliver Goldsmith - "The Present State of the British Empire in Europe, America, Africa, and Asia"
* Richard Gough - "Anecdotes of British Topography"
* Joseph Priestley - "An Essay on the First Principles of Government"
* Tobias Smollett - "The Present State of all Nations"
* Laurence Sterne - "A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy"
* Gilbert Stuart - "An Historical Dissertation Concerning the Antiquity of the English Constitution"
* Abraham Tucker as "Edward Search" - "The Light of Nature Pursued"
* Horace Walpole - "Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard III"
* Arthur Young - "A Six Weeks' Tour Through the Southern Counties of England and Wales"

Births

* September 4 - François-René de Chateaubriand

Deaths

* March 18 - Laurence Sterne, novelist
* April 9 - Sarah Fielding, novelist and children's author (b. 1710)
* December 20 - Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni
*"date unknown" - Joseph Spence, memoirist and professor of poetry (b. 1699)


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