1772 in literature

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This is a list of literature-related events in 1772.

Events

May 7 - The Stadsschouwburg theatre in Amsterdam is destroyed by fire.
June - At Marseilles, the Marquis de Sade embarks on an orgy, as a result of which he is convicted in absentia of sodomy and poisoning and receives a death sentence; he escapes.
September 12 - The Göttinger Hainbund of German poets is formed at a midnight ritual in an oaken grove.
November 10 - The wife of poet Pedro Correia Garção obtains an order for his release from prison, the very day of his death.
November 28 - Completion of publication of the Bible in the Manx language.^[1]
Thomas Paine produces his first published work, a political article entitled Case of the Officers of Excise.
Gottfried August Bürger obtains a magistracy and is reconciled with his family.
Charles Burney tours Europe, researching for his History of Music.
Hannah More arrives in London.

György Bessenyei - Ágis tragédiája
Richard Cumberland - The Fashionable Lover
Samuel Foote - The Nabob
David Garrick - The Irish Widow
Gotthold Lessing - Emilia Galotti
Louis-Sébastien Mercier
- Le faux ami
- Jean Hennuyer, évêque de Lisieux (written)
Arthur Murphy - The Grecian Daughter
Vicente Garcia de la Huerta - Raquel

Mark Akenside - Poems
Thomas Chatterton - The Execution of Sir Charles Bawdin
William Jones - Poems, Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick Languages
William Kenrick - Love in the Suds
William Mason - The English Garden
Christopher Smart - Hymns, for the Amusement of Children
George Alexander Stevens - Songs

Alphabetum grandonico-malabaricum sive samscrudonicum (with a preface by Giovanni Cristofano Amaduzzi)
The Encyclopédie in 28 volumes by Diderot, d'Alembert, and many others
Moses Browne - The Excellency of the Knowledge of Jesus Christ
William Chambers - A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening
Junius (poss. Philip Francis) - Junius: Stat Nominis Umbra
Francis Grose - The Antiquities of England and Wales
Johann Gottfried Herder - Treatise on the Origin of Language
Richard Hurd - An Introduction to the Study of Prophecies...
Carsten Niebuhr - Beschreibung von Arabien
Joseph Priestley - The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours
Francis Stoughton Sullivan (died 1766) - An Historical Treatise on the Feudal Law, and the Constitution and Laws of England
Catherine Talbot - Essays on Various Subjects
José Cadalso - Los eruditos a la violeta

March 10 – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, German poet, literary critic, philosopher and philologist (died 1829)
April 11 – Manuel José Quintana, Spanish poet (died 1857)
May 2 – Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg), German poet and philosopher (died 1801)
August 29 – Sarah Burney, English novelist (died 1844)
September 27 – Sándor Kisfaludy, Hungarian poet (died 1844)
October 21 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (died 1834)
November 17 – Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers, French dramatist (died 1827)
November 28 – Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann, German classical commentator and philologist (died 1848)
December 6 – Henry Cary, Gibraltar-born Irish author, editor and translator (died 1844)
Unknown dates
- James Ballantyne, Scottish editor and publisher (died 1833)
- John Carr, English travel writer and lawyer (died 1832)

March 26 – Charles Pinot Duclos, French novelist and encyclopedist (born 1704)
March 29 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher (born 1688)
May 22 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (born 1687)
June – Thomas Whately, English politician and writer (born 1726)
June 18 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German philosopher (born 1706)
October 7 – John Woolman, American abolitionist author (smallpox, born 1720)^[2]
October 10 – William Wilkie, Scottish poet (ague, born 1721)^[3]
November 10 – Pedro Correia Garção, Portuguese poet (born 1724)
Date unknown – Margareta Momma, Swedish editor and writer (born 1702)

↑ Wood, G. W. (1896). "An Account of the Translation and Editions of the Holy Scriptures in the Manx Language". The Manx Church Magazine 6.
↑ Slaughter, Thomas P. (2008). The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition, New York: Hill and Wang, p. 378
↑ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). "Wilkie, William". Dictionary of National Biography 61. London: Smith, Elder & Co.