1782 in literature

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The year 1782 in literature involved some significant literary events and new works.

Events

January 13 - Friedrich Schiller's first play, the revolutionary melodrama The Robbers (Die Räuber), causes a sensation at its first performance, in Mannheim.^[1] Schiller, a military doctor at this time, is arrested afterwards for leaving his regiment without permission to attend.^[2]
August 18 - William Blake marries Catherine Boucher at St Mary's Church, Battersea. In the same year, he meets his future patron, John Flaxman.
October 10 - Sarah Siddons makes a triumphant return to the Drury Lane Theatre in London in the title role of David Garrick's adaptation of Thomas Southerne's Isabella, or, The Fatal Marriage.
Charles Dibdin becomes joint manager of the Royal Circus, afterwards known as the Surrey Theatre, in London.^[3]
The Siku Quanshu is completed, the largest literary compilation in China's history. The books are bound in 36,381 volumes with more than 79,000 chapters comprising about 2.3 million pages and approximately 800 million Chinese characters.

William Cowper
- The Diverting History of John Gilpin
- Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk
- Poems
John Freeth - Modern Songs
William Hayley - An Essay on Epic Poetry in Five Epistles to Mason
William Mason
- An Archaeological Epistle to Jeremiah Milles....
- King Stephen's Watch
Hannah More - Sacred Dramas for Young Persons
Edward Rushton - The Dismember'd Empire (attrib.)
John Scott - Poetical Works
Helen Maria Williams - Edwin and Eltruda
John Wolcot as "Peter Pindar" - Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians

Thomas Day - Reflections upon the Present State of England, and the Independence of America
William Gilpin - Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales
Masons von Koeppen and von Hymnen - Crata Pepoa oder Einweihungen in der alten geheimen Gesellschaft der egyptischen Priester (third edition)
Edmund Malone - Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (debunking Chatterton's hoax)
John Nichols - Biographical and Literary Anecdotes of William Bowyer
Thomas Pennant - The Journey from Chester to London
Isaac Reed - Biographia Dramatica
Joseph Ritson - Observations on the First Three Volumes of the History of English Poetry (on Thomas Warton)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Confessions
Louis Claude de Saint-Martin - Tableau naturel des rapports qui existent entre Dieu, l'homme, et l'univers
Ignatius Sancho - Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African
Thomas Spence - The History of Crusonia on Robinson Crusoe's Island
Emanuel Swedenborg - Heaven and Hell (translated by Antoine-Joseph Pernety from Latin into French)
Thomas Tyrwhitt - A Vindication of the Appendix to the Poems, called Rowley's
Joseph Warton - An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope
Thomas Warton - An Enquiry into the Authenticity of the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley

January 30 – Ann Taylor, English poet and critic (died 1866)
February – Georg Koës, Danish philologist (died 1811)
March 2 – Isaac Pocock, English dramatist and painter (died 1835)
April 16 – William Jerdan, Scottish journalist (died 1869)
June 9 – Peter Fisher, Canadian historian (died 1848)
September 7 – Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, Scottish novelist (died 1854)
September 19 – Richard Lower, English dialect poet (died 1865)
September 25 – Charles Maturin, Irish dramatist and novelist (died 1824
Unknown date
- Grace Kennedy, Scottish novelist (died 1825)
- Benjamin Thorpe, English scholar of Anglo-Saxon (died 1870)
Probable year of birth – Charlotte Dacre, English novelist (died 1841)

↑ Hammer, Stephanie Barbé (2001). Schiller's Wound: The Theater of Trauma from Crisis to Commodity. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. p. 32. ISBN 0814328628.
↑ "Brief Biography". Retrieved 2013-08-23.
↑ "The Surrey Theatre, Blackfriars Road, London". Retrieved 2013-02-12.
↑ Spadoni, Carl (2002). "Collecting Eighteenth-Century English Novels in the Twenty-First Century". Eighteenth-Century Fiction 14. Retrieved 2013-02-12. Article 20.