1754 in literature
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This is a list of literature-related events in 1754.
Events
- January 28 - Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity (from the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip).
- March 2 - Riot at Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin. Thomas Sheridan, the manager, resigns, and leaves Ireland on September 15 for London[1] where his wife Frances Sheridan meets Samuel Richardson.
- Élie Catherine Fréron's journal Lettres sur quelques écrits de ce temps is replaced by his Année littéraire.
New books
- Anonymous - Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa and Pamela
- Thomas Birch - Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
- Charles Bonnet - Essai de psychologie
- John Gilbert Cooper - Letters Concerning Taste
- John Douglas -Letter on the Criterion of Miracles
- John Gillies - Historical Collections Relating to Remarkable Period of the Success of the Gospel
- Zachary Grey - Critical, Historical, and Explanatory Notes on Shakespeare
- Benjamin Hoadly - Sixteen Sermons
- David Hume - The History of England (volume 1)
- William Law - The Second Part of the Spirit of Love
- Francis Plumer - A Candid Examination of the History of Sir Charles Grandison
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Discourse on Inequality
- Henry St. John - Philosophical Works
- Jonathan Swift - Brotherly Love
- - The Works of Jonathan Swift (the Hawkesworth edition)
- William Warburton - A View of Lord Bolingbroke's Philosophy
- Thomas Warton - Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser
- Luis José Velázquez - Ensayos, memorias y orígenes de la poesía castellana
Fiction
- Jane Collier and Sarah Fielding - The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable
- Mary Davys - The Reformed Coquet; or Memoirs of Amoranda
- Henry Fielding - The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great (enlarged and expanded from the Miscellanies of 1743)
- Solomon Gessner - Daphnis
- Sarah Scott:
- Agreeable Ugliness
- A Journey Through Every Stage of Life
- John Shebbeare - The Marriage Act
Poetry
- Thomas Cooke - An Ode on Poetry, Painting, and Sculpture
- Thomas Denton - Immortality
- John Duncombe - The Feminiad
- Henry Jones - The Relief
- William Whitehead - Poems
Drama
- John Gay - The Rehearsal at Goatham
- Macnamara Morgan:
- Philoclea (from Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia)
- The Sheep-Shearing, or Florizel and Perdita (a farce adapted from The Winter's Tale)
- Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon - Le Triumvirat
Births
- March 24 – Joel Barlow, American poet and diplomat (died 1812)
- May 23 – William Drennan, Irish physician, poet, radical and educationalist (died 1820)
- July 11 – Thomas Bowdler, English editor (died 1825)
- October 13 – Frances Jacson, English novelist (died 1842)
- December 24 – George Crabbe, English poet (died 1832)
Deaths
- January 28 – Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian philosopher, historian and playwright (born 1684)
- April 2 – Thomas Carte, English historian (born 1686)
- April 9 – Christian Wolff, German philosopher (born 1679)
- October 8 – Henry Fielding English novelist (born 1707)
- Unknown date – Robert Morris, English writer on architecture (born 1703)
- Probable date of death – Francis Coventry, English novelist and cleric (born 1725)