1783 in literature

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Contents

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths

Events

Friedrich Schiller leaves Stuttgart for Weimar to avoid persecution.
William Cobbett arrives in London.
August von Kotzebue is appointed to the high court of appeal in Reval.

New books

Thomas Day - The History of Standford and Merton
Ellenor Fenn (as "Mrs. Teachwell") - Cobwebs to Catch Flies
Thomas Holcroft - The Family Picture
Sophia Lee - The Recess
Anna Maria Mackenzie - Burton-Wood
Clara Reeve - The Two Mentors

New drama

Frances Brooke - Roxina
Hannah Cowley - Which is the Man?
Richard Cumberland - The Mysterious Husband

Poetry

Main article: 1783 in poetry

Lady Anne Barnard - Auld Robin Gray (ballad) (published anonymously)
William Blake - Poetical Sketches
Jane Cave - Poems
Judith Cowper - The Progress of Poetry
George Crabbe - The Village
Joseph Ritson - A Select Collection of English Songs
John Wolcot as "Peter Pindar" - More Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians

See also 1783 in poetry

Non-fiction

James Beattie - Dissertations Moral and Critical
William Beckford - Dreams, Waking Thughts and Incidents
Hugh Blair - Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
Edmund Burke - Letter on the Penal Laws Against Irish Catholics
Adam Ferguson - History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic
William Godwin - Life of Lord Chatham
Immanuel Kant - Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science
Vicesimus Knox - Elegant Extracts
Mémoires secrets (anonymous)
Ezra Stiles - The United States elevated to Glory and Honor
Horace-Bénédict de Saussure - Essai sur l'hygrométrie

Births

January 23 - Stendhal, novelist (d. 1842)
April 3 - Washington Irving, short story writer (d. 1859)

Deaths

January 2 - Johann Jakob Bodmer, journalist and critic (b. 1698)
April 17 - Louise d'Epinay (b. 1726)
September 6 - Anna Williams, poet and friend of Dr Johnson (b. 1706)
October 10 - Henry Brooke, novelist, playwright, and poet (b. 1703)
October 29 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician
November 3 - Charles Collé, dramatist (b. 1709)
November 23 - Ann Eliza Bleecker, poet and novelist (b. 1752)