1767 in literature
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| List of years in literature (table) |
|---|
| ... 1757 . 1758 . 1759 . 1760 . 1761 . 1762 . 1763 ... 1764 1765 1766 -1767- 1768 1769 1770 ... 1771 . 1772 . 1773 . 1774 . 1775 . 1776 . 1777 ... In poetry: 1764 1765 1766 -1767- 1768 1769 1770 |
| Art . Archaeology . Architecture . Literature . Music . Philosophy . Science +... |
This is a list of literature-related events in 1767.
Events
- January 29 - Former watchmaker and entrepreneur Pierre Beaumarchais has his first full-length drama, Eugénie, premièred at the Comédie-Française. Revised in two days, it establishes his reputation in this field.
- February - King George III of Great Britain requests an introduction to Samuel Johnson from his librarian, Frederick Augusta Barnard. They meet in the library of the Queen's House.[1]
- Publication of the Epistles and Book of Revelation in Manx as Sceeuyn Paul yn Ostyl gys ny Romanee completes the first translation of the New Testament into that language.[2]
- Richard Price publishes a volume of sermons.
New books
- Belisarius (anonymous)
- James Boswell - Dorando
- The Female American (anonymous)
- Phebe Gibbes - The Woman of Fashion
- Hugh Kelly - Memoirs of a Magdalen
- Susannah Minifie - Barford Abbey
- Frances Sheridan
- Continuation of the Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph (posth)
- The History of Nourjahad
- Laurence Sterne - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman vol. ix
- Arthur Young - The Adventures of Emmera
New drama
- Pierre Beaumarchais - Eugénie
- Richard Bentley - Philodamus
- Isaac Bickerstaffe - Lace in the City
- George Colman, the Elder
- The English Merchant
- The Oxonian in Town
- David Garrick - Cymon
- Hall Hartson - The Countess of Salisbury
- Arthur Murphy - The School for Guardians
Poetry
- Francis Fawkes - Partridge-Shooting
- Oliver Goldsmith, ed. - The Beauties of English Poesy
- Richard Jago - Edge-Hill
- Henry Jones - Kew Garden
- Moses Mendes, ed. - A Collection of the Most Esteemed Pieces of Poetry
- William Mickle - The Concubine
- Christopher Smart, trans. - The Works of Horace, Translated into Verse
Non-fiction
- John Byrom - The Universal English Short-hand
- William Duff - An Essay on Original Genius
- Richard Farmer - An Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare
- Adam Ferguson - An Essay on the History of Civil Society
- Paul Henry Thiry, Baron d'Holbach - Christianisme dévoilé
- Catherine Macaulay - Loose Remarks on Mr. Hobbes's Philosophical Rudiments of Government and Society (on Hobbes's 1651 work)
- Joseph Priestley - The History and Present State of Electricity
- William Warburton - Sermons and Discourses
- Arthur Young - The Farmer's Letters to the People of England
Births
- January 1 - Maria Edgeworth, novelist (died 1849)
- February 4 - Andrew Marschalk, printer (died 1838)
- April 9 - Joseph Fiévée, French journalist, essayist, novelist and dramatist (died 1839)
- September 6 - Thomas Bayly Howell, legal writer (died 1815)
- September 10 - Melchiorre Gioia, philosophical writer (died 1829)
- October 25 - Benjamin Constant, novelist (died 1830)
- December 8 - Fabre d'Olivet, French poet and composer (died 1825)
- date unknown
- Elizabeth Bentley, poet (died 1839)
- Dorothy Ripley, missionary and reformist writer (died 1832)
Deaths
- February 16 - David Erskine Baker, writer on drama (born 1730)[3]
- February 28 - Charles Balguy, translator (born 1708)
- April 27 - Johann Gottlob Carpzov, theologian (born 1679)
- July 15 - Michael Bruce, poet (born 1746)
- July 26 - Paul Gottlieb Werlhof, physician and poet (born 1699)
- September 11 - Theophilus Evans, clergyman and historian (born 1693)
- October 1 - Léon Ménard, lawyer and historian (born 1706)[4]
- December 22 - John Newbery, publisher (born 1713)
References
- ↑ Boswell 1986, p. 134
- ↑ Wood, G. W. (1896). "An Account of the Translation and Editions of the Holy Scriptures in the Manx Language". The Manx Church Magazine 6.
- ↑ John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, v. 277
- ↑
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Léon Ménard". Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.