1771 in literature

1771 in literature

"See also:" 1770 in literature, other events of 1771, 1772 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

*April 9 - Pedro Correia Garção is arrested and committed to prison by Sebastião de Melo, Marquis of Pombal.
* Henry Mackenzie's "The Man of Feeling" inaugurates the fashion for the "sentimental" novel.

New books

* John Brown - "Description of the Lake of Keswick"
* Charles Burney - "The Present State of Music in France and Italy"
* John Dalrymple - "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland"
* Oliver Goldsmith - "The History of England"
* Samuel Johnson - "Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands"
* Thomas Pennant - "A Tour in Scotland"
* William Smellie - "Encyclopaedia Britannica" (in 100 volumes)
* John Wesley - "Works"
* Arthur Young - "The Farmer's Tour Through the East of England"

Poetry

* James Beattie - "The Minstrel"
* James Cawthorn - "Poems"
* John Langhorne - "The Fables of Flora"
* Thomas Percy - "The Hermit of Warkworth"
* Henry James Pye - "The Triumph of Fashion"

Fiction

* Anonymous - "The History of Sir William Harrington"
* Claude Joseph Dorat - "Les Sacrifices de l'amour"
* Elizabeth Griffith - "The History of Lady Barton"
* John Langhorne - "Letters to Eleonara"
* Henry Mackenzie - "The Man of Feeling"
* Tobias Smollett - "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker"

New drama

* Isaac Bickerstaffe - "He Wou'd If He Cou'd"
* Joseph Cradock - "Zobeide"
* Richard Cumberland - "The West Indian"
* Denis Diderot - "Le Fils Naturel"
* Carlo Goldoni - "Le Bourru Bienfaisant"
* Hugh Kelly - "Clementina"
* George Alexander Stevens - "The Fair Orphan"

Births

* June 13 - Sydney Smith, author (died 1845)
* August 15 - Walter Scott, novelist (died 1832)
* September 11 - Mungo Park, explorer (died 1806)
* December 25 - Dorothy Wordsworth, poet (died 1855)
* "date unknown" - John Lingard, priest, author (died 1851)

Deaths

* May 21 - Christopher Smart, poet (born 1722)
* July 30 - Thomas Gray, poet (* 1716)
* September 17 - Tobias Smollett, novelist, journalist, translator (born 1721)
* October 14 - John Gill, theologian (born "1697")
* December 26 - Claude Adrien Helvétius, philosopher (born 1715)
*"probable" - Henry Mill, inventor of the typewriter (born c. 1683)


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