1764 in literature

none July 2021 1764 literature poetry This article is a summary of literary events and publications during 1764. Events thumb|upright|Illustration pf The Castle of Otranto from a 1794 German edition January 19 – John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel in an article criticizing King George III in The North Briton.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/322 registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 322–323 February – Samuel Johnson co-founds The Club, a literary dining club in London. June 21 – The Quebec Gazette newspaper begins publication; its successor survives. October 15 – While visiting Rome, Edward Gibbon conceives the idea for The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire "as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted fryars were singing Vespers in the temple of Jupiter".Murray, John The Autobiographies of Edward Gibbon 2nd London John Murray 1897 302 Gibbon is at the Franciscan Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli on the Capitoline Hill, actually the site of the Temple of Juno.Gibbon in Rome 1764 Saunders J. J. History Today 1964 14 9 608–15 http://www.historytoday.com/jj-saunders/gibbon-rome-1764 2013-12-12 October 29 – The Hartford Courant newspaper is founded in Connecticut. December 24 – Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto ("A Story. Translated by William Marshal, Gent. From the Original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto"), the first Gothic novel, is published by his Strawberry Hill Press in England. In the second edition, Walpole applied the word 'Gothic' to the novel in the subtitle – A Gothic Story. Set in a haunted castle, the novel merged medievalism and terror in a style that has endured ever since. The aesthetic of the book has shaped modern-day Gothic romance/horror books, films, art, music, and the Goth subculture.https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30313775 The Castle of Otranto: The creepy tale that launched gothic fiction BBC News 13 December 2014 unknown dates The French scholar Jean-Jacques Barthélemy deciphers the Phoenician language using inscriptions on the Cippi of Melqart from Malta. Mme. Necker and Mlle. de Lespinasse establish literary salons in Paris. New books Fiction John Cleland – The Surprises of LoveAntonia Forster Index to Book Reviews in England, 1749-1774 https://books.google.com/books?id=dYbzVL9pEpQC&pg=PA64 1990 SIU Press 978-0-8093-1406-5 64 Phebe Gibbes The History of Lady Louisa Stroud and the Honorable Miss Caroline StrettonAntonia Forster Index to Book Reviews in England, 1749-1774 https://books.google.com/books?id=dYbzVL9pEpQC&pg=PA64 1990 SIU Press 978-0-8093-1406-5 121 The Life and Adventures of Mr. Francis CliveWomen & Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=yWgqAQAAIAAJ 1975 Transaction Periodicals Consortium 38 Susannah Minifie – Family Pictures George Psalmanazar (pseudonym) – Memoirs of ***, Commonly Known by the Name of George Psalamanazar James Ridley (as Sir Charles Morell) – The Tales of the GeniiSir Charles Morell The Tales of the Genii: Or, The Delightful Lessons of Horam, the Son of Asmar https://books.google.com/books?id=tUE1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PT2 1766 J. Wilkie 2 Horace Walpole – The Castle of Otranto Drama Samuel Foote – The Patron Antoine-Marin Lemierre – Idomne Arthur Murphy No One's Enemy But His Own What We Must All Come To Kane O'Hara – Midas Christopher Smart – Hannah Ramón de la Cruz – El petimetre Poetry 1764 in poetry Charles Churchill The Candidate The Duellist The Farewell Gotham (book i) Independence The Times John Gilbert Cooper – Poems Oliver Goldsmith – The Traveller James Grainger – The Sugar-Cane Johann Georg Jacobi – Poetische Versuche Edward Jerningham – The Nun"ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION". Accessed 2 January 2013 George Keate – The Ruins of Netley Abbey Mary Latter – Liberty and Interest: a Burlesque Poem on the Present TimesOrlando Project – Mary Latter. Accessed 2 January 2013 William Mason – Poems William Williams Pantycelyn – Bywyd a Marwolaeth Theomemphus (in Welsh) Christopher Smart – A Poetical Translation of the Fables of Phaedrus Thomas Warton – The Oxford Sausage Non-fiction David Erskine Baker – The Companion to the Play-house (dictionary of dramatists and plays) John Barrow – Dictionary of Arts and Sciences Cesare Beccaria (anonymous) – On Crimes and Punishments (Dei delitti e delle pene) Charles Bonnet – Contemplation de la nature Oliver Goldsmith – An History of England Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (posthumously) – The Life of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (concluded 1624) Immanuel Kant – Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (Beobachtungen über das Gefühl des Schönen und Erhabenen) Gottfried Leibniz (posthumous) – New Essays on Human Understanding (Nouveaux essais sur l'entendement humain) (completed 1704) John Newton (anonymous) – An Authentic Narrative of Some Remarkable And Interesting Particulars in the Life of ------ Communicated, in a Series of Letters, to the Reverend T. Haweiss (autobiography) Francisco Mariano Nipho – La nación española defendida de los insultos del Pensador y sus secuaces Anthony Purver – A New and Literal Translation of all the Books of the Old and New Testament (Bible) Thomas Reid – An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense William Shenstone (posthumous) – Works Voltaire Dictionnaire philosophique (Philosophical Dictionary) Commentaires sur Corneille Johann Joachim Winckelmann – Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (History of Ancient Art) Births January 23 – Morris Birkbeck, American writer and social reformer (died 1825) February 11 – Joseph Chénier, French poet (died 1811)Robert Aldrich Martyn Lyons The Sphinx in the Tuileries and Other Essays in Modern French History: Papers Presented at the Eleventh George Rudé Seminar https://books.google.com/books?id=xgFoAAAAMAAJ 1999 Department of Economic History, University of Sydney 978-1-86487-026-8 28 March 6 – Catharina Heybeek, Dutch journalist, feminist and editor (died 1810) April 29 – Ann Hatton (Ann of Swansea), English novelist (died 1838)Philip H. Highfill Kalman A. Burnim Edward A. Langhans A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 https://books.google.com/books?id=HNed_aEZXdMC&pg=PA171 1982 SIU Press 978-0-8093-0918-4 171 May 7 – Therese Huber, German writer and scholar (died 1829)Katharina M. Wilson M. Wilson An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=2Wf1SVbGFg8C&pg=PA573 1991 Taylor & Francis 978-0-8240-8547-6 573 June 19 – John Barrow, English writer, geographer and linguist (died 1848)http://www.ulverstoncouncil.org.uk/education/john-barrow/ Ulverston Borough Council biography. Retrieved 28 June 2020. 28 June 2020 29 June 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200629193854/http://www.ulverstoncouncil.org.uk/education/john-barrow dead June 23 – Gabriel-Marie Legouvé, French poet and dramatist (died 1812) July 4 – Prokop František Šedivý, Czech playwright, actor, and translator (died c. 1810) July 9 – Ann Radcliffe, English Gothic novelist (died 1823)Robert Miles Ann Radcliffe: The Great Enchantress https://books.google.com/books?id=VeXoAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA21 1995 Manchester University Press 978-0-7190-3829-7 21 August 18 – Judah Leib Ben-Ze'ev, Galician Jewish modern Hebrew philologist, lexicographer, Biblical scholar and poet (died 1811) October 19 – Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy, French dramatist (died 1846) November 1 – Frederick Reynolds, English dramatist (died 1841) December 3 – Mary Lamb, English miscellanist and co-author with brother Charles Lamb (died 1847)Anne Burrows Gilchrist Mary Lamb https://books.google.com/books?id=GlYBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA2 1883 Roberts Bros. 978-0-932062-63-5 2 unknown date – Sophie de Condorcet, French salonist and feminist (d. 1822)Paul Hyland Olga Gomez Francesca Greensides The Enlightenment: A Sourcebook and Reader https://books.google.com/books?id=PfoobriCsAUC&pg=PA27 2003 Psychology Press 978-0-415-20448-4 27 Deaths April 17 – Johann Mattheson, German writer, lexicographer and musician (born 1681) June 18 – Christmas Samuel, Welsh-language writer and Independent minister (born 1674) July 30 – Philipp Hafner, Austrian writer of farce (born 1735) September 23 – Robert Dodsley, English miscellanist and bookseller (born 1703)Robert Dodsley The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley: 1733-1764 https://books.google.com/books?id=F5SKgkoYll0C&pg=PA20 22 January 2004 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-52208-3 20 October 23 – Pierre-Charles Roy, French poet and librettist (born 1683) November 1 – Agustín de Montiano y Luyando, Spanish dramatist (born 1697) November 4 – Charles Churchill, English poet and satirist (born 1731) December 15 – Robert Lloyd, English poet and satirist (born 1733) December 18 – Mattheus Pinna da Encarnaçao, Spanish Benedictine theologian (born 1687) References 30em External links 1764 Books at Goodreads