1785 in literature

none May 2013 1785 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1785. Events thumb|Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne January 1 The Daily Universal Register (later The Times) is first published, in London.Steinberg S. H. Five Hundred Years of Printing 2017 Courier Dover Publications 9780486814452 14 https://books.google.com/books?id=LAONDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA14 en The Paris theatre company Théâtre des Variétés-Amusantes moves to a temporary new building in the gardens of the Palais-Royal. February 2 – Sarah Siddons makes her London debut in her most famous rôle, Lady Macbeth, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.Siddons, Sarah February – The English heiress Mary Bowes escapes from her husband, Andrew Robinson Stoney, and begins divorce proceedings. April 14 – After today's death of the English poet William Whitehead in London, Thomas Warton succeeds him as Poet Laureate of Great Britain, William Mason having refused the post. May 22 – Robert Burns' first child, Elizabeth ("Dear-bought Bess"), is born to his mother's servant, Elizabeth Paton.http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/PatonElizabeth.705.shtml Paton, Elizabeth The Burns Encyclopedia 2014-01-28 June 23 – The Litvak rabbi and writer Aryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg dies at Metz in France after a book-case topples on him, according to tradition.Zev Eleff Eleff Zev http://www.jewishreviewofbooks.com/publications/detail/the-wages-of-criticism The Wages of Criticism Jewish Review of Books Winter 2012 8 2013-03-06 November 28 – The Marquis de Sade finishes writing The 120 Days of Sodom (Les 120 Journées de Sodome) while imprisoned in the Bastille; it will not be published until 1904. unknown date Giacomo Casanova is appointed librarian to Count Joseph Karl von Waldstein at the Duchcov Château in Bohemia.Walter M. Weiss Looking for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Travel Companion Through Salzburg, Prague & Vienna https://books.google.com/books?id=R9k5AQAAIAAJ 1997 Brandstätter 978-3-85447-729-7 90 A new building for the Prussian Royal Library is completed in Berlin. New books Fiction Anna Maria Bennett – Anna Elizabeth Blower – Maria Denis Diderot, part trans. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Jacques the Fatalist (Jacques der Fatalist und sein Herr) Richard Graves – Eugenius Karl Philipp Moritz – Anton Reiser (to 1790) Children Rudolf Erich Raspe, anonymously – Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia Drama George Colman the Younger – Two to One Richard Cumberland – The Natural Son Elizabeth Inchbald Appearance Is Against Them I'll Tell You What Leonard MacNally – Fashionable Levities Frederick Reynolds – Werter Emanuel Schikaneder – Der Fremde Poetry 1785 in poetry János Bacsanyi – The Valour of the Magyars Samuel Egerton Brydges – Sonnets and other Poems Robert Burns – "To a Mouse" William Combe – The Royal Dream William Cowper – The Task George Crabbe – The News-Paper William Hayley – A Philosophical, Historical and Moral Essay on Old Maids Samuel Johnson – The Poetical Works Friedrich Schiller – Ode to Joy (An die Freude) Charles Wilkins (translator) – Bhagvat-geeta, or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon John Wolcot as "Peter Pindar" The Lousiad Lyric Odes, for the Year 1785 Ann Yearsley – Poems Non-fiction Ethan Allen – Reason: the Only Oracle of ManHolbrook Stewart H. Ethan Allen New York MacMillan 1940 975403 0-395-24908-2 James Boswell – The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Edmund Burke – Speech on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts Francis Grose – A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue Samuel Johnson – Prayers and Meditations Immanuel Kant – Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals (Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten) William Paley – The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy Clara Reeve – The Progress of Romance Thomas Reid – Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man John Scott – Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English Poets Births January 4 – Jakob Grimm, German philologist, jurist and mythologist (died 1863) January 31 – Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová, Czech cookery writer (died 1845) March 3 – Frances Mary Richardson Currer, English heiress and bibliophile (died 1861) March 7 – Alessandro Manzoni, Italian poet and novelist (died 1873) March 18 – He Changling (賀長齡), Chinese scholar and writer on governance (died 1848) March 21 – Henry Kirke White, English poet (died 1806) April 4 – Bettina von Arnim, German novelist (died 1859) April 7 – Lorenzo Hammarsköld, Swedish poet and author (died 1827) May 3 – Vicente López y Planes, Argentine politician and writer (died 1856) May 18 – John Wilson (Christopher North), Scottish writer (died 1854) August 15 – Thomas De Quincey, English essayist (died 1859) October 18 – Thomas Love Peacock, English novelist, poet and East India Company official (died 1866) October 30 – Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau – German travel and gardening writer (died 1871) unknown date – Neofit Bozveli, Bulgarian educator and clergyman, early figure in the Bulgarian National Revival (died 1848) Deaths January 19 – Jonathan Toup, English classicist, critic and cleric (born 1713)John Burke A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Univested with Heritable Honours https://books.google.com/books?id=6AtBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA297 1838 H. Colburn 297 April 14 – William Whitehead, English poet laureate (born 1715) May 4 – János Sajnovics, Hungarian linguist (born 1733) August 31 – Pietro Chiari, Italian playwright, novelist and librettist (born 1712) September 17 – Antoine Léonard Thomas, French poet and critic (born 1732) November 12 – Richard Burn, English legal writer (born 1709) November 25 – Richard Glover, English poet and politician (born 1712) December 6 – Kitty Clive, English actress and writer of farce (born 1711) December 18 – Joseph Allegranza, Milanese historian (born 1715) December 29 – Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian-born Danish poet and satirist (born 1742) unknown date – Ali Haider Multani, Punjabi Sufi poet (born 1690)Bakhshish Singh Nijjar Panjāb Under the Great Mughals, 1526-1707 https://books.google.com/books?id=pBA31VcI0_oC 1968 Thacker 173 References 30em External links 1785 Books at Goodreads