1757 in literature
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See also: 1756 in literature, other events of 1757, 1758 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Jonathan Edwards becomes President of the institution that would later become Princeton University.
- Pierre-Augustin Caron changes his name to Beaumarchais.
- Robert Raikes becomes proprietor of the Gloucester Journal.
- Thomas Gray turns down the post of Poet Laureate of Great Britain.
- Thomas Warton is appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford
[edit] New books
- Madame Riccoboni - Lettres de Mistriss Fanny Butlerd
[edit] New drama
- Phanuel Bacon – The Moral Quack
- Denis Diderot - Le Fils naturel
- John Home - Douglas
[edit] Poetry
- Thomas Gray - Odes
- William Wilkie - Epigoniad
[edit] Non-fiction
- Edmund Burke - A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
- David Hume - The Natural History of Religion
- Richard Price - Review of the Principal Questions in Morals
- Joseph Warton - Essay on Pope
[edit] Births
- November 13 - Archibald Alison (Scottish author) (died 1839)
- November 18 - William Blake (died 1827)
[edit] Deaths
- March 1 - Edward Moore, dramatist (born 1712)
- unknown date - Colley Cibber, Poet Laureate (born 1671)
