1783 in literature

1783 in literature

Events

* The Peace of Versailles ending the American Revolution formally.
* The first prime ministry of William Pitt the Elder
*Friedrich Schiller leaves Stuttgart for Weimar to avoid persecution.
*William Cobbett arrives in London.
*August von Kotzebue is appointed to the high court of appeal in Reval.

New books

* James Beattie - "Dissertations Moral and Critical"
* William Beckford - "Dreams, Waking Thughts and Incidents"
* Hugh Blair - "Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres"
* Edmund Burke - "Letter on the Penal Laws Against Irish Catholics"
* Adam Ferguson - "History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic"
* William Godwin - "Life of Lord Chatham"
* Immanuel Kant - "Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics"
* Vicesimus Knox - "Elegant Extracts"
* Ezra Stiles - "The United States elevated to Glory and Honor"
* Horace-Bénédict de Saussure - "Essai sur l'hygrométrie"

Poetry

* Lady Anne Barnard - "Auld Robin Gray" (ballad) (published anonymously)
* William Blake - "Poetical Sketches"
* Jane Cave - "Poems"
* Judith Cowper - "The Progress of Poetry"
* George Crabbe - "The Village"
* Joseph Ritson - "A Select Collection of English Songs"
* John Wolcot as "Peter Pindar" - "More Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians"

Fiction

* Thomas Day - "The History of Standford and Merton"
* Eleanor Fenn as "Mrs. Teachwell" - "Fables by Mrs. Teachwell"
* Thomas Holcroft - "The Family Picture"
* Sophia Lee - "The Recess"
* Anna Maria Mackenzie - "Burton-Wood"
* Clara Reeve - "The Two Mentors"

New drama

* Frances Brooke - "Roxina"
* Hannah Cowley - "Which is the Man?"

Births

* January 23 - Stendhal, novelist
* April 3 - Washington Irving, short story writer
* Simon Bolivar, South American revolutionary

Deaths

* January 2 - Johann Jakob Bodmer, journalist and critic
* April 17 - Louise d'Epinay
* October 29 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician
* Yokai Yagu, Japanese poet. (Born 1702).
* Henry Brooke, novelist, playwright, and poet.


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