1761 in literature
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[edit] Events
- The Battle of Pondicherry in January and victory by Eyre Coote.
- On the death of Johann Matthias Gesner, the chair of rhetoric at the University of Göttingen is refused by both Johann August Ernesti and by David Ruhnken. It eventually goes to Christian Gottlob Heyne.
[edit] New books
- Thomas Cole - Discourses on Luxury, Infidelity, and Enthusiasm
- George Colman the Elder - Critical Reflections on the Old English Dramatick Writers
- Denis Diderot - Rameau's Nephew
- Robert Dodsley - Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists (anthology)
- Baron d'Holbach - Christianity unveiled
- Henry Home - Introduction to the Art of Thinking
- David Hume - The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Accession of Henry VII
- Joseph Priestley - The Rudiments of English Grammar
- Tiphaigne de la Roche - L'Empire des Zaziris sur les humains ou la Zazirocratie
[edit] Poetry
- John Armstrong - A Day: An epistle to John Wilkes
- Charles Churchill - The Apology
- - Night: An epistle to Robert Lloyd
- - The Rosciad
- John Cleland - The Times!, vol. 2
- Francis Fawkes - Original Poems and Translations
- Edward Jernigham - Andromache to Pyrrhus
- Robert Lloyd - An Epistle to Charles Churchill
- James Scott - Odes
- Edward Thompson - The Meretriciad (a satire on Kitty Fisher, a prostitute)
[edit] Fiction
- John Hawkesworth - Almoran and Hamet
- William Kenrick - Eloisa
- Thomas Percy (transl.) - Hau Kou Choan
- James Ridley as "Sir Charles Morrell" - The History of James Lovegrove
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse
- Frances Sheridan - Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph
- Laurence Sterne - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman vols. iii - iv.
[edit] New drama
- Isaac Bickerstaffe - Thomas and Sally
- Henry Brooke - The Earl of Essex (adapted)
- George Colman the Elder – The Jealous Wife
- Richard Cumberland - The Banishment of Cicero
- Richard Glover - Medea
- Carlo Gozzi - The Love for Three Oranges
- Arthur Murphy - All in the Wrong
- - The Old Maid
[edit] Births
- May 3 - August von Kotzebue (died 1819)
- September 8 - François Juste Marie Raynouard (died 1836)
[edit] Deaths
- April 9 - William Law, theologian (born 1686)
- April 15 - William Oldys, bibliographer (born 1696)
- July 4 - Samuel Richardson, novelist (born 1689)
- August 3 - Johann Matthias Gesner, librarian and classical scholar (born 1691)
- Benjamin Hoadly, bishop of Bangor and instigator of the Bangorian Controversy
