1782 in literature

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The Spanish take Minorca.
In the American Revolution, the Battle of the Saints results in a British victory for the battle.
William Blake first meets his patron, John Flaxman.

Thomas Day - Reflections upon the Present State of England, and the Independence of America
William Gilpin - Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales
Edmund Malone - Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (debunking Chatterton's hoax)
John Nichols - Biographical and Literary Anecdotes of William Bowyer
Thomas Pennant - The Journey from Chester to London
Isaac Reed - Biographia Dramatica
Joseph Ritson - Observations on the First Three Volumes of the History of English Poetry (on Thomas Warton)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Confessions
Ignatius Sancho - Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African
Thomas Spence - The History of Crusonia on Robinson Crusoe's Island
Thomas Tyrwhitt - A Vindication of the Appendix to the Poems, called Rowley's
Joseph Warton - An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope
Thomas Warton - An Enquiry into the Authenticity of the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley

William Cowper - The Diverting History of John Gilpin
- - Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk
- - Poems
John Freeth]] - Modern Songs
William Hayley - An Essay on Epic Poetry in Five Epistles to Mason
William Mason - An Archaeological Epistle to Jeremiah Milles....
- - King Stephen's Watch
Hannah More - Sacred Dramas for Young Persons
Edward Rushton - The Dismember'd Empire (attrib.)
John Scott - Poetical Works
Helen Maria Williams - Edwin and Eltruda
John Wolcot as "Peter Pindar" - Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians