1777 in literature

1777 in literature

Events

* Fanny Burney is introduced to Samuel Johnson by her father
* Robert Lowth becomes Bishop of London
* First appearance of James Boswell's "The Hypochondriak" in the "London Magazine"

New books

* Frances Brooke - "The Excursion"
* Phoebe Gibbes - "Modern Seduction"
* Henry Mackenzie - "Julia de Roubigne"
* Samuel Jackson Pratt
**"Charles and Charlotte"
**(as "Courtney Melmoth") "Travels for the Heart"
*Clara Reeve
**"The Champion of Virtue"
**"The Old English Baron"

New drama

* Charles Dibdin - "The Quaker"
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - "Iphigenie auf Tauris"
* Richard Brinsley Sheridan - "The School for Scandal"

Poetry

* Thomas Chatterton - "Poems"
* William Combe - "The Diaboliad"
** - "The First of April"
* Thomas Day - "The Desolation of America"
* William Dodd - "Thoughts in Prison"
* William Roscoe - "Mount Pleasant"
* Thomas Warton - "Poems"
* Paul Whitehead - "Poems"

Non-fiction

* Hugh Blair - "Sermons"
* Edmund Burke - "Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol"
* James Cook - "A Voyage Toward the South Pole"
* John Howard - "The State of the Prisons in England and Wales"
* David Hume - "The Life of David Hume"
* Hannah More - "Essays"
* Maurice Morgann - "An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff"
* Joseph Priestley
**"Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit"
**"The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity Illustrated"
* Isaac Reed - "The Repository"
* William Robertson - "The History of America"
* Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield - "Characters"

Births

*February 12 - Friedrich de la Motte Fouquet
*July 27 - Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet.
*William Henry Ireland, forger of Shakespeariana

Deaths

*October 21 - Samuel Foote, English dramatist
* Hugh Kelly, poet and dramatist


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