1781 in literature

1781 in literature

Events

* The capitulation of General Cornwallis at the Siege of Yorktown.
* Friedrich Schiller arrested after the first performance of his play, "The Robbers"

New books

* Anna Barbauld - "Hymns in Prose for Children"
* Robert Bage - "Mount Henneth"
* William Combe - "Letters of an Italian Nun and an English Gentelman"
* Charles Johnstone - "The Hisotry of John Juniper"
* Henry Mackenzie - "Julia de Roubignei"
* Glocester Ridley - "Melanpus"
* Anna Seward - "Monody on Major Andre"

New drama

* Miles Peter Andrews - "Dissipation"
* Frances Brooke - "The Siege of Sinope"
* John Delap - "The Royal Supplicants"
* Thomas Holcroft - "Duplicity"
* Elizabeth Inchbald – "Polygamy"
* Robert Jephson - "The Count of Narbonne"
* Samuel Jackson Pratt - "The Fair Circassian"
* Friedrich Schiller - "Die Räuber (The Robbers)"
* Richard Brinsley Sheridan
**"A Trip to Scarborough"
**"The Critic"

Poetry

* William Cowper - "Anti-Thelyphthora"
* George Crabbe - "The Library"
* Anne Francis - "A Poetical Translation of the Song of Solomon"
* Philip Freneau - "The British Prison-Ship"
* William Hayley - "The Triumphs of Temper"
* George Keate - "Works"
* Samuel Jackson Pratt - "Sympathy"

Non-fiction

* Edward Gibbon - Volumes II and III of "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
* Henry Home - "Loose Hints Upon Education"
* Samuel Johnson - "The Beauties of Johnson"
* Immanuel Kant - "Critique of Pure Reason"
* John Moore - "A View of Society and Manners in Italy"
* John Newton - "Cardiphonia"
* John Nichols - "Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth"
* Jean Jacques Rousseau - "Confessions"

Births

*January 26 - Ludwig Achim von Arnim, poet and novelist (d. 1831)
*January 30 - Adelbert von Chamisso, poet (d. 1838)
*February 26 - Peter Andresen Oelrichs, lexicographer
*March 17 - Ebenezer Elliott, poet (d. 1849)
*May 14 - Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer, historian (d. 1873)
*November 6 - Lucy Aikin, historical writer (d. 1864)
*December 6 - Charlotte von Ahlefeld, novelist (d. 1849)
*December 11 - David Brewster, scientist and writer (d. 1868)
*"date unknown" - Józef Zawadzki, publisher (d. 1838)
**Christian Isobel Johnstone, journalist and novelist (d. 1857)

Deaths

* February 15 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
* April 4 - Henry Thrale, friend of Samuel Johnson and husband of Hester Thrale
*May 8 - Richard Jago, poet (b. 1715)
*November 2 - José Francisco de Isla, satirist (b. 1703)
*November 4 - Johann Nikolaus Götz, poet (b. 1721)


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