1744 in literature
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The year 1744 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Samuel Foote makes his debut as an actor.
[edit] New books
- Mark Akenside - The Pleasures of the Imagination
- - An Epistle to Curio
- John Armstrong - The Art of Preserving Health
- George Berkeley - Siris
- Jane Brereton - Poems
- Emilie de Breteuil, marquise du Chatelet -Dissertation sur la nature et la propagation du feu
- Colley Cibber - Another Occasional Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope
- Mary Collyer - Felicia to Charlotte (prose fiction)
- Robert Dodsley - A Select Collection of Old Plays
- Sarah Fielding - The Adventures of David Simple
- David Garrick - An Essay on Acting (attrib.)
- Eliza Haywood - The Female Spectator (periodical)
- - The Fortunate Foundlings (prose fiction)
- Samuel Johnson - Life of Savage
- - An Account of the Life of John Philip Barretier
- Edward Moore - Fables for the Female Sex
- John Newbery - A Little Pretty Pocket-Book
- William Oldys - The Harleian Miscellany (introduction by Samuel Johnson)
- Alexander Pope finishes Essay on Man, with the fourth of the "Epistles: Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to" (4) "Happiness" (the first 2 epistles were written in 1732 and the third in 1733).
- Jonathan Swift - Three Sermons (one of the few sermon publications by Swift)
- Joseph Warton - The Enthusiast
- Paul Whitehead - The Gymnasiad
[edit] Published plays
- William Harvard - Regulus
- James Miller - Joseph and his Brethren (music by Handel)
- - Mahomet the Imposter (adapted from Voltaire's Mahomet)
- Thomas Odell - The Prodigal
- James Ralph - The Astrologer (adapted from Thomas Tomkis's Albumazar, which was adapted from Giambattista della Porta's L'astrologo)
[edit] Births
- February 10 - William Mitford, historian (died 1827)
- August 25 - Johann Gottfried Herder, German poet (died 1803)
[edit] Deaths
- May 30 - Alexander Pope (born 1688)
- unknown date - Charlotte Fielding, wife of Henry Fielding; she was his model Sophia Western in Tom Jones
