1783 in literature
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The year 1783 in literature involved some significant literary events and new works.
Events
- April 14 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's drama Nathan der Weise receives its first professional performance, in Berlin.
- September - Friedrich Schiller, having left Stuttgart for Weimar to avoid persecution, becomes resident dramatist at Mannheim.[1]
- William Cobbett arrives in London.
- August von Kotzebue is appointed to the high court of appeal in Reval.
New books
- Thomas Day (anonymously) - The History of Sandford and Merton (first book)[2]
- Rhijnvis Feith - Julia
- Ellenor Fenn (as "Mrs. Teachwell") - Cobwebs to Catch Flies
- Thomas Holcroft - The Family Picture
- Sophia Lee - The Recess
- Anna Maria Mackenzie - Burton-Wood
- Clara Reeve - The Two Mentors
New drama
- Vittorio Alfieri - Agamennone
- Frances Brooke - Roxina
- Hannah Cowley - Which is the Man?
- Richard Cumberland - The Mysterious Husband
- John O'Keeffe - The Poor Soldier
Poetry
Main article: 1783 in poetry
- Lady Anne Barnard - Auld Robin Gray (ballad) (published anonymously)
- William Blake - Poetical Sketches
- Jane Cave Winscom[3] - Poems
- Judith Cowper - The Progress of Poetry
- George Crabbe - The Village
- Joseph Ritson - A Select Collection of English Songs
- John Wolcot as "Peter Pindar" - More Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians
- See also 1783 in poetry
Non-fiction
- James Beattie - Dissertations Moral and Critical
- William Beckford - Dreams, Waking Thughts and Incidents
- Hugh Blair - Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
- Edmund Burke - Letter on the Penal Laws Against Irish Catholics
- Adam Ferguson - History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic
- William Godwin - Life of Lord Chatham
- Immanuel Kant - Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science
- Vicesimus Knox - Elegant Extracts
- Mémoires secrets (anonymous)
- Ezra Stiles - The United States elevated to Glory and Honor
- Horace-Bénédict de Saussure - Essai sur l'hygrométrie
Births
- January 23 – Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), French novelist (died 1842)
- April 3 – Washington Irving, American short story writer, essayist and politician (died 1859)
- September 23 – Jane Taylor, English poet and novelist (died 1824)
Deaths
- January 2 – Johann Jakob Bodmer, Swiss journalist and critic writing in German (born 1698)
- April 17 – Louise d'Epinay French writer and salon hostess (born 1726)
- September 6 – Anna Williams, Welsh-born poet (born 1706)
- October 10 – Henry Brooke, Irish novelist, playwright, and poet (born 1703)
- October 29 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician and philosopher (born 1717)
- November 3 – Charles Collé, French dramatist and songwriter (born 1709)
- November 23 – Ann Eliza Bleecker, American poet, novelist and letter writer (born 1752)
References
- ↑ [Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Biography. Accessed 12 February 2013.]
- ↑ "The History of Sandford and Merton". Broadview Press. Retrieved 2013-02-12.
- ↑ Pallimed Arts and Humanities: Poetry and Pain. Accessed 12 February 2013