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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1760.
Events
thumb|150px|Odin riding Sleipnir, illustration from the Danish Royal Library, MS NKS 1867 4°
January – Oliver Goldsmith's series of fictionalised "letters from a Chinese philosopher," later collected in The Citizen of the World, begins in The Public Ledger.The Citizen of the World; or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, 1762 https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-citizen-of-the-world-or-letters-from-a-chinese-philosopher-1762 The British Library 16 March 2019
October 25 – With the death of King George II of Great Britain, the era of Augustan literature that started in 1702 is considered to be at an end.
James Beattie becomes a professor at the University of Aberdeen.
Fanny Burney and her family move to London, where her father Dr Charles Burney teaches music. In London, Fanny meets Dr Samuel Johnson.Atlantic Brief Lives https://books.google.com/books?id=Hozoywf3AlEC 1971 112
Jupiter Hammon's poem "An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries" is published as a broadside in British America, making him the first known published African American author.Oxford University Press 9780195138832 Andrews, William L. Foster, Frances Smith Harris, Trudier O'Neale Sondra Hammon, Jupiter The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature 2002 https://books.google.com/books?id=-9XtCY7cijMC&pg=PA185Burt Daniel S. Daniel Burt (author) https://books.google.com/books?id=VQ0fgo5v6e0C The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Boston 2004 978-0-618-16821-7
The play Edward III is attributed to William Shakespeare by the noted Shakespearean editor Edward Capell in his Prolusions; or, Select Pieces of Ancient Poetry, Compil'd with great Care from their several Originals, and Offer'd to the Publicke as Specimens of the Integrity that should be Found in the Editions of worthy Authors.
The Danish Royal Library, MS NKS 1867 4° (Den nye kongelige samling) manuscript is written.
New books
Fiction
Belinda; Or, Happiness the Reward of Constancy: Mannifested in a Series of the Most Interesting and Surprizing Events Ever Yet Made Publick
John Cleland – The Romance of a Day
Sarah Fielding – The History of Ophelia
Charles Johnstone – Chrysal vols. i–ii
Tobias Smollett – The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves (serial publication begins)
Drama
George Colman the Elder – Polly Honeycombe
Carlo Goldoni
La casa nova
I rusteghi
Samuel Foote – The Minor
John Home – The Siege of Aquileia
Arthur Murphy
The Desert Island
The Way to Keep Him
George Alexander Stevens – The French Flogged
Poetry
1760 in poetry
James Beattie – Original Poems and Translations
George Colman the Elder – Odes
John Delap – Elegies
Robert Lloyd
The Actor
The Tears and Triumphs of Parnassus
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton – Dialogues of the Dead
James Macpherson as "translator" – Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland
John Scott – Four Elegies
Non-fiction
John Balguy (died 1748) – Sermons, vol. 2
William Law – Of Justification by Faith and Works
John Shebbeare – The History of the Sumatrans (satire on the Whigs)
Tobias Smollett – The British Magazine (periodical)
Laurence Sterne – The Sermons of Mr. Yorick (the author's sermons)
William Tytler – An Historical and Critical Inquiry into the Evidence Against Mary Queen of Scots
Births
March 10 – Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist and poet (died 1828)
May 10 – Johann Peter Hebel, German poet and story writer (died 1826)
June 12 – Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, French novelist, playwright and diplomat (died 1797)
August 28 – István Ballér (Števan Baler), Slovene hymnist and Lutheran minister (died 1835)
October 1 – William Thomas Beckford, English novelist and travel writer (died 1844)
October 25 – Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren, German historian (died 1842)
October 26 – Maria Petronella Woesthoven, Dutch poet (died 1830)
March 2 – Christina Charlotta Cederström, Swedish poet (died 1832)
Unknown date:
Alecu Beldiman, Moldavian poet-chronicler and translator (died 1826)
Emma Jane Greenland, English painter, writer (died 1838)
Deaths
February 5 – Browne Willis, English antiquary and writer (born 1682)
February 14 – Isaac Hawkins Browne, English poet and politician (born 1705)
April 6 – Charlotte Charke, English novelist and dramatist (born 1713)Philip H. Highfill Kalman A. Burnim Edward A. Langhans A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Cabanel to Cory https://books.google.com/books?id=Ohhz-ZXjfd4C&pg=PA177 1975 SIU Press 978-0-8093-0692-3 177
April 10 – Jean Lebeuf, French historian (born 1687)
November 30 – Friederike Caroline Neuber, German actor-manager (born 1697)Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Prokhorov Great Soviet Encyclopedia https://books.google.com/books?id=K1cNAQAAMAAJ 1973 Macmillan 503
References
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External links
1760 Books at Goodreads