1784 in literature

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Contents

1 Events
2 New books
- 2.1 Poetry
- 2.2 Fiction
3 New drama
4 Births
5 Deaths

Events

The founding of the Methodist Church by John Wesley
Gottlieb Jakob Planck becomes professor of theology at Göttingen

New books

Thomas Astle - The Origin and Progress of Writing
George Berkeley - Works
Edmund Burke - Speech on the East India Bill
Thomas Chatterton - Supplement to the Miscellanies
James Cook - A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean
George Bubb Dodington - Diary
William Godwin - Sketches of History
Samuel Horsley - Letters from the Archdeacon of St. Albans
Immanuel Kant - What is Enlightenment?
William Mitford - The History of Greece
Antoine de Rivarol - Sur l'universalité de la langue française
Arthur Young - Annals of Agriculture

Poetry

Main article: 1784 in poetry

Anonymous - Rolliad
Mary Alcock - The Air Balloon
Richard Jago - Poems
Anna Seward - Louisa
Charlotte Turner Smith - Elegaic Sonnets
Helen Maria Williams - An Ode on the Peace
- - Peru

Fiction

Anonymous - Dangerous Connections (transl. of Les liaisons dangereuses)
Robert Bage - Barham Downs
Eliza Bromley - Laura and Augustus: an Authentic Story
William Combe - Original Love-letters
William Godwin - Damon and Delia
- - Italian Letters
Thomas Holcroft - Tales of the Castle

New drama

Hannah Cowley
- A Bold Stroke for a Husband
- More Ways Than One
Richard Cumberland
- The Carmelite
- The Natural Son
Thomas Holcroft - The Follies of the Day (translation of Pierre Beaumarchais' Le Mariage de Figaro)
Elizabeth Inchbald - Mogul Tale
Friedrich Schiller - Intrigue and Love (Kabale und Liebe)

Births

January 31 - Bernard Barton, poet
May 18 - William Tennant, Scottish poet
November 17 - Julia Nyberg, Swedish poet
date unknown - Antoine Ó Raifteiri, "last of the wandering bards"
Leigh Hunt, one of the "Cockney School"

Deaths

December 13 - Samuel Johnson
Matthew Pilkington, clergyman, writer, and husband of Laetitia Pilkington
Denis Diderot