1752 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1752.

Events

Scene from Samuel Foote's satire Taste with the playwright cross-dressed as Lady Pentweazel (painting by Robert Smirke)

• January 4 - Paper War of 1752–1753: in the first issue of The Covent-Garden Journal Henry Fielding starts his long-running quarrel with John Hill, by declaring war against hack writers.^[1] Tobias Smollett soon becomes involved, accusing Fielding of plagiarism.
• Thomas Sheridan introduces a version of Shakespeare's Coriolanus incorporating portions of the version by James Thomson as Coriolanus, or The Roman Matron at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin.
• Lewis Hallam opens a tour of north America with his brother William's company at Williamsburg, Virginia, with Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
• Library at Melk Abbey in Lower Austria completed.

New books

• George Ballard - Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain Who Have Been Celebrated for their Writing or Skill in the Learned Languages, Arts, and Sciences
• George Berkeley - A Miscellany
• Thomas Birch - The Life of John Tillotson
• Francis Blackburne - A Serious Inquiry into the Use and Importance of External Religion
• William Dodd - The Beauties of Shakespeare
• Henry Fielding as "Sir Alexander Drawcansir" - The Covent-Garden Journal (periodical)
• John Hawkesworth - The Adventurer (periodical)
• David Hume - Political Discourses
• William Law
  • The Spirit of Love
  • The Way to Divine Knowledge
• Henry St. John - Letters on the Study and Use of History
• José Francisco de Isla - Cartas de Juan de la Encina
• Diego de Torres Villarroel - Obra`

Fiction

• Charlotte Lennox - The Female Quixote
• Voltaire - Histoire du docteur Akakia et du natif de Saint-Malo

Poetry

• Moses Browne - The Works and Rest of the Creation
• John Byrom - Enthusiasm
• Richard Owen Cambridge - A Dialogue Between a Member of Parliament and His Servant
• Thomas Cooke - Pythagoras
• William Mason - Elfrida
• Christopher Smart - Poems

Newly published drama

• Samuel Foote - Taste

Births

• January 3 – Johannes von Müller Swiss historian (died 1809)
• June 13 – Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (died 1840)
• November 20 – Thomas Chatterton, English poet and forger of medieval poetry (died 1770)

Deaths

• September 19 – Louis Fuzelier, French dramatist (born 1672)
• October 24 – Christian Falster, Danish poet and philologist (born 1690)
• November 2 – Johann Albrecht Bengel, German New Testament commentator (born 1687)
• November 5 – Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (born 1670)
• Unknown date –Li E, Chinese poet (born 1692)

In literature

• Miloš Crnjanski's novel Сеобе (Seobe, "Migrations", 1929) is set during Jovan Šević's September–December migration to Slavo-Serbia.

See also

• Augustan literature

References