1754 in literature
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Contents |
[edit] Events
- Frances Sheridan and her husband arrive in London from Ireland.
[edit] New books
- Anonymous - Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa and Pamela
- Thomas Birch - Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
- Charles Bonnet - Essai de psychologie
- John Gilbert Cooper - Letters Concerning Taste
- John Douglas -Letter on the Criterion of Miracles
- John Gillies - Historical Collections Relating to Remarkable Period of the Success of the Gospel
- Zachary Grey - Crticial, Historical, and Explanatory Notes on Shakespeare
- Benjamin Hoadly - Sixteen Sermons
- David Hume - History of Great Britain (volume 1)
- William Law - The Second Part of the Spirit of Love
- Francis Plumer - A Candid Examination of the History of Sir Charles Grandison
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Discourse on Inequality
- Henry St. John - Philosophical Works
- Jonathan Swift - Brotherly Love
- - The Works of Jonathan Swift (the Hawkesworth edition)
- William Warburton - A View of Lord Bolingbroke's Philosophy
- Thomas Warton - Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser
[edit] Fiction
- Mary Davys - The Reformed Coquet; or Memoirs of Amoranda
- Henry Fielding - The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great (enlarged and expanded from the Miscellanies of 1743)
- Sarah Scott:
- Agreeable Ugliness
- A Journey Through Every Stage of Life
- John Shebbeare - The Marriage Act
- Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto
[edit] Poetry
- Thomas Cooke - An Ode on Poetry, Painting, and Sculpture
- Thomas Denton - Immortality
- John Duncombe - The Feminiad
- Henry Jones - The Relief
- William Whitehead - Poems
[edit] Drama
- John Gay - The Rehearsal at Goatham
- McNamara Morgan:
- Philoclea (from Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia)
- The Sheep-Shearing, or Florizel and Perdita (a farce adapted from The Winter's Tale)
[edit] Births
- July 11 - Thomas Bowdler (died 1825)
- December 24 - George Crabbe (died 1832)
[edit] Deaths
- January 28 - Ludvig Holberg (born 1684)
- April 2 - Thomas Carte (born 1686)
- April 9 - Christian Wolff (philosopher) (born 1679)
- October 8 - Henry Fielding (born 1707)
- Jane Collier
- James Gibbs