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1774 literature poetry
July 2020
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1774.
Events
thumb|Charlotte visiting Werther's grave. A scene based on The Sorrows of Young Werther, though not actually depicted in the novel.
February 22 – The English legal case of Donaldson v Beckett is decided in the House of Lords, denying the continued existence of a perpetual common law copyright and holding that copyright is a creation of statute and can be limited in its duration.2 Brown's Parl. Cases 129, 1 Eng. Rep. 837; 4 Burr. 2408, 98 Eng. Rep. 257; 17 Cobbett's Parl. Hist. 953 (1813). This does permit authors to claim copyright on their own works.
September 14 – A new Stadsschouwburg (municipal theatre) in Amsterdam opens with the première of Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken's tragedy Jacob Simonszoon de Ryk.te Winkel Jan http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/wink002ontw05_01/wink002ontw05_01_0027.php De ontwikkelingsgang der Nederlandsche letterkunde V, Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche letterkunde van de Republiek der Vereenigde Nederlanden 3 Haarlem Héritiers F. Bohn 1924 2 401 nl
September 29 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's semi-autobiographical epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) (written January – March) is published anonymously in Leipzig, Germany; it is influential in the Sturm und Drang movement and Romanticism. Werther was one of Goethe's few works akin in style and mood to the German proto-Romantic movement known as Sturm und Drang, a movement which he renounced after he and Friedrich von Schiller joined the rival movement of Weimar Classicism. The novel was published anonymously, and Goethe distanced himself from it in his later years,vii–viii https://books.google.com/books?id=XDVQt20sZFEC&pg=PR7 Introduction to The Sorrows of Young Werther 978-0486433639 Appelbaum Stanley 2004-06-04 Courier Corporation regretting the fame it had brought him and the consequent attention to his own youthful love of Charlotte Buff, then already engaged to the lawyer and archivist Johann Christian Kestner. Although Goethe wrote Werther at the age of 24, it remained the only work of his with which many of his visitors were familiar, even in his old age. Goethe had changed his views of literature radically by then, even denouncing the Romantic movement as "everything that is sick."Lynn Hunt, The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, 4th Ed., p.673 (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2012).
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After the destruction of the Schloss Weimar by fire, Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, forms a commission for its reconstruction directed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.http://www.klassik-stiftung.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Bildung/Lehrer_und_Erzieher/Das_Schlossmuseum_01.pdf Das Stadtschloss Weimar/The Palace at Weimar Klassik Stiftung Weimar PDF 2010 2014-06-09Martin Geck Bach https://books.google.com/books?id=N1zSVDYTCXgC&pg=PA25 2003 Haus Publishing 978-1-904341-16-1 25
James Lackington begins in the London bookselling business.
Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider becomes secretary to Richard François Philippe Brunck.
The National and University Library of Slovenia in Ljubljana is established as the Lyceum Library, from the remains of the dissolved Jesuit library and several monastery libraries.Miriam Drake Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Second Edition - https://books.google.com/books?id=Sqr-_3FBYiYC&pg=PA2073 20 May 2003 CRC Press 978-0-8247-2079-7 2073
Alberto Fortis publishes Viaggio in Dalmazia ("Journey to Dalmatia") and starts Morlachism.https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/0d19d195-6047-4425-8a14-ebf60e87e70d Imagining the Morlacchi in Fortis and Goldoni Branislava Milić Brett University of Alberta PhD 1–213 2014 10.7939/R3MM45
New books
Fiction
Jeremy Bentham – The White Bull
Henry Brooke – Juliet Grenville
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – The Sorrows of Young Werther
Charles Johnstone – The History of Arsaces
The Newgate Calendar
Christoph Martin Wieland – Die Abderiten, eine sehr wahrscheinliche Geschichte (The Abderites: A Very Probable Story)
Children
Johann Bernhard Basedow – Elementarwerk (first of four volumes)
Drama
Miles Peter Andrews – The Election
John Burgoyne – The Maid of the Oaks
George Colman the Elder – The Man of Business
Richard Cumberland
The Choleric Man
The Note of Hand
Charles Dibdin – The Waterman
Alexander Dow – Sethona
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Clavigo
Hugh Kelly – The Romance of an Hour
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz – The Tutor (Der Hofmeister)
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos – El delincuente honrado
Poetry
1774 in poetry
James Beattie – The Minstrel, volume 2
William Dunkin – Poetical Works
Oliver Goldsmith – Retaliation
Richard Graves – The Progress of Gallantry
William Mason – An Heroic Postscript to the Public
Hannah More – The Inflexible Captive
Samuel Jackson Pratt (as Courtney Melmoth) – The Tears of A Genius, occasioned by the Death of Dr. Goldsmith
Henry James Pye – Farringdon Hill
Mary Scott – The Female Advocate
Candido Maria Trigueros – El poeta filósofo o Poesías filosóficas en verso pentámetroCándido María Trigueros El poeta filosofo; o poesias filosoficas en verso pentametro https://books.google.com/books?id=IAJsAQAACAAJ 1774 En la Imprenta de Don Manuel Nicolàs Vazquez, y Compañia
William Whitehead – Plays and Poems, by William Whitehead, Esq. Poet Laureat
Non-fiction
Giacomo Casanova – Istoria delle turbolenze della Polonia
Mary Deverell – Sermons
Alberto Fortis – Viaggio in Dalmazia
Martin Gerbert – De cantu et musica sacra
Oliver Goldsmith
The Grecian History
An History of the Earth and Animated Nature
Henry Home – Sketches of the History of Man
John Hutchins (died 1773) – The History and Antiquities of Dorset
Thomas Jefferson – A Summary View of the Rights of British America
Samuel Johnson – The Patriot
Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz – The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina (English translation of Histoire de la Louisiane (1758) in 1 vol.)
Joseph Priestley – Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air
William Richardson – A Philosophical Analysis and Illustration of Some of Shakespeare's Remarkable Characters
Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes – Discurso sobre el fomento de la industria popular
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield – Letters to his Son
Sugita Genpaku – Kaitai Shinsho (解体新書, "New Text on Anatomy", Japanese translation of Ontleedkundige Tafelen)
Horace Walpole – A Description of Strawberry-Hill
Thomas Warton – The History of English Poetry, volume 1
John Wesley – Thoughts upon Slavery
Births
January 1 – Pietro Giordani, Italian translator, scholar and writer (died 1848)
February 24 – Archibald Constable, Scottish publisher (died 1827)
July 14 – Francis Lathom, Dutch-born English Gothic novelist and dramatist (died 1832)
August 12 – Robert Southey, English poet and Poet Laureate (died 1843)
Deaths
April 4 – Oliver Goldsmith, Irish dramatist (born 1728/1730)
April 28 – Gottfried Lengnich, German/Polish historian (born 1689)
September 17 – Abraham Langford, English auctioneer and playwright (born 1711)
October 16 – Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (head injury, born 1750)http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00mr8yj/profiles/robert-fergusson BBC Two: Writing Scotland. 2013-04-19 2018-11-07 https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20181107182104/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/2N82ppKDkcqBxkjbYB8Kh6H/robert-fergusson dead
unknown date – Catherine Michelle de Maisonneuve, French editor and writer
References
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External links
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