1779 in literature
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This is a list of literature-related events in 1779.
Events
- April 6 - Premiėre of Iphigenie auf Tauris by Johann Wolfgang Goethe.
- William Blake enrols at the Royal Academy.
New books
- Richard Graves - Columella
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi - Woldemar
- Ignacy Krasicki - Fables and Parables (Bajki i przypowieści)
- Nocturnal Revels
- Samuel Jackson Pratt as "Courtney Melmoth"
- Shenstone-Green
- The Tutor of Truth
- The Sorrows of Werter (anonymous translation of the work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
- Félix Antonio Ponce de León - Vida, hechos y aventuras de Juan Mayorazgo
New drama
- Fanny Burney - The Witlings (unpublished)
- Hannah Cowley
- Albina, Countess Raimond
- Who's the Dupe
- Richard Cumberland - Calypso
- Hugh Downman - Lucius Junius Brutus
- Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian - Les Deux Billets
- Robert Jephson - The Law of Lombardy
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Nathan der Weise (published)
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan - The Critic
New poetry
Main article: 1779 in poetry
- William Cowper and John Newton - Olney Hymns
- Robert Furgusson - Poems
- William Hayley - Epistle to Admiral Keppel
- Ann Murry - Poems
- Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos - Epístola de Jovino a Anfriso, escrita desde el Paular
- Leandro Fernandez de Moratín - La toma de Granada por los Reyes Católicos don Fernando y doña Isabel
- Tomás de Iriarte - La música
Non-fiction
- Anna Barbauld - Lessons for Children
- James Burnett - Antient Metaphysics
- Edward Capell - Notes and Various Readings to Shakespeare
- George Chalmers - Political Annals of the Present United Colonies
- Edward Gibbon - A Vindication of Some Passages in the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- David Hume - Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
- Samuel Johnson - Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets
- Vicessimus Knox - Essays
- Franz Mesmer - Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal
- John Moore - A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany
- Horace Walpole - A Letter to the Editor of the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton
Births
- January 18 – Peter Mark Roget, English lexicographer (died 1869)
- March 1 – Gottfried Weber, German writer on music (died 1839)
- March 3 – Matthäus Casimir von Collin, Austrian poet and dramatist (died 1824)
- March 30 – Antoine Ó Raifteiri, Irish Gaelic poet (died 1835)
- May 28 – Thomas Moore, Irish-born poet and songwriter (died 1852)
- August 1 – Francis Scott Key, American poet (died 1843)
- September 10 – Alexander Voeykov, Russian poet (died 1839)
- December 22 – Thomas Gaisford, English classicist (died 1855)
Deaths
- January 20 – David Garrick, English dramatist, actor and impresario (born 1717)
- March 4 – Heinrich Leopold Wagner, German dramatist (born 1747)
- June 7 – William Warburton, English writer, critic and cleric (born 1698)
- June 10 – William Kenrick, English novelist, playwright and satirist (born c. 1725)
- December 22 – István Küzmics (Števan Küzmič), Hungarian writer in Prekmurje Slovene (Wendish) (born c. 1723)
- Unknown date – Jane Gomeldon, essayist and writer of maxims (unknown year of birth)