1747 in literature
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The year 1747 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
- April - David Garrick becomes one of the managers of Drury Lane Theatre in London.
- December 1 - Samuel Richardson's epistolary novel Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady ("by the Editor of Pamela") begins publication in London.
- The Załuski Library is established in Warsaw.
New books
- William Blackstone - The Pantheon (attrib)
- Thomas Carte - A General History of England
- Denis Diderot - La Promenade du sceptique (completed; not published until 1830)
- William Dunkin - Boetia
- Thomas Edward - A Supplement to Mr. Warburton's Edition of Shakespear
- Henry Fielding, as "John Trott Plaid" - The Jacobite's Journal (periodical)
- Sarah Fielding - Familiar Letters Between the Principal Characters in David Simple (in defense against unauthorized continuations)
- Samuel Foote - The Roman and English Comedy Consider'd
- Philip Francis - A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace
- Hannah Glasse - The Art of Cookery
- Madame de Graffigny - Letters from a Peruvian Woman
- Henry Home, Lord Kames - Essays Upon Several Subjects Concerning British Antiquities
- Samuel Johnson - The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language
- Charlotte Lennox - Poems
- David Mallet - Amyntor and Theodora
- William Mason - Musaeus: A monody to the memory of Pope (an imitation of Milton's Lycidas)
- William Memoth, the younger - The Letters of Pliny the Consul
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Six Town Eclogues
- Josiah Ralph - A Miscellany
- Samuel Richardson - Clarissa vol. i - ii
- William Shakespeare - The Works of Shakespear (edited by William Warburton)
- Tobias Smollett - Reproof
- Joseph Spence - Polymetis
- Laurence Sterne - The Case of Elijah and the Widow of Zerephath
- Voltaire - Zadig
- Horace Walpole - A Letter to the Whigs
- Joseph Warton - Ranelagh House
- Thomas Warton - The Pleasures of Melancholy
- Juan de Iriarte - Discurso sobre la imperfección de los diccionarios
- Diego de Torres Villarroel - Desengaños razonables para sacudir el polvo del espanto
New drama
- John Cunningham - Love in a Mist
- David Garrick - Miss in Her Teens
- Carlo Goldoni - The Venetian Twins (I due gemelli veneziani)
- Benjamin Hoadly the younger - The Suspicious Husband
- Edward Moore - The Foundling
- Takeda Izumo II, Miyoshi Shōraku and Namiki Senryū I - Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (original version for bunraku puppet theatre)
Births
- January 11 – François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt economics writer (died 1827)
- January 15 – John Aikin, English biographer, activist and physician (died 1822)
- December 12 – Anna Seward, English poet (died 1809)
Deaths
- January 16 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes German poet (born 1680)
- August – Leonard Welsted, English poet (born 1688)
- November 17 – Alain-René Le Sage, French novelist and playwright (born 1668)
- November 22 – Joseph Trapp, poet, controversialist and translator (born 1679)