1781 in literature

none 1781 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1781. January 2026 Events thumb|upright|1740 portrait of the real Baron Munchausen March 27 – George Crabbe writes to Edmund Burke, enclosing examples of his work.Edmund Burke The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke https://books.google.com/books?id=t-kpAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA472 1852 F. & J. Rivington 472 The outcome is the publication of Crabbe's poem The Library.Crabbe Ainger Alfred 1903 Macmillan New York https://archive.org/details/crabbe00aing 31–32 August 5 – The Czech meteorologist and geographer Antonín Strnad completes an inventory of the contents of the Clementinum in Prague, which becomes a national library.Zdislav Šíma Astronomie a Klementinum https://books.google.com/books?id=lcgfAQAAIAAJ 2001 Národní knihovna České republiky 978-80-7050-386-7 94 unknown date – Rudolf Erich Raspe (anonymously) publishes "M-h-s-nsche Geschichten" ("M-h-s-n Stories") in the Berlin humor magazine Vade mecum für lustige Leute ("Handbook for Fun-loving People"), the first appearance of Baron Munchausen in fiction.Blamires David The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Telling Tales: The Impact of Germany on English Children's Books 1780–1918 OBP collection 8–21 Cambridge Open Book Publishers 2009 9781906924119 http://books.openedition.org/obp/600 New books Fiction Robert Bage – Mount Henneth Christoph Friedrich Bretzner – Belmont und ConstanzeThomas Bauman W. A. Mozart  Cambridge University Press 1987 9780521310604 78 William Combe – Letters of an Italian Nun and an English Gentleman Eugenio Espejo – La ciencia blancardinaPhilip L. Astuto (2003), Eugenio Espejo (1747–1795), Reformador ecuatoriano de la Ilustración. Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana. p. 82. 9978-92-241-5. Benjamin Franklin – A Letter To A Royal AcademyFart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School 2003 Frog Books 9781583940792 Carl Japikse Berkeley, CA https://archive.org/details/fartproudlywriti0000fran registration Charles Johnstone – The History of John Juniper Henry Mackenzie – Julia de Roubignei Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne – La Découverte Australe par un Homme-Volant Glocester Ridley – Melanpus Anna Seward – Monody on Major André Children Mrs. Barbauld – Hymns in Prose for Children Joachim Heinrich Campe – Die Entdeckung von Amerika (Discovery of America) Drama Miles Peter Andrews – Dissipation Frances Brooke – The Siege of Sinope Hannah Cowley – The World as it Goes Elizabeth Craven – The Miniature Picture John Delap – The Royal Suppliantshttp://www.ampltd.co.uk/digital_guides/women_morality_and_advice_literature_parts_1_to_3/contents-of-reels-part-1.aspx Women, Morality And Advice Literature Manuscripts and Rare Printed Works of Hannah More (1745–1833) and her circle from the Clark Library, Los Angeles 2013-02-03 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Iphigenia in Tauris (revised version) Thomas Holcroft – Duplicity Elizabeth Inchbald – Polygamy Robert Jephson – The Count of NarbonneAllardyce Nicoll A History of English Drama 1660–1900: Volume III Cambridge University Press 2009 277 John O'Keeffe – The Agreeable Surprise Samuel Jackson Pratt – The Fair Circassian Friedrich Schiller – The Robbers (Die Räuber, published) Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic (published) A Trip to Scarborough Poetry 1781 in poetry William Cowper – Anti-Thelyphthora George Crabbe – The Library Maria De Fleury – Poems, Occasioned by the Confinement and Acquittal of the Right Honourable Lord George Gordon, President of the Protestant Association Santa Rita Durão – Caramuru Anne Francis – A Poetical Translation of the Song of Solomon Philip Freneau – The British Prison-Ship William Hayley – The Triumphs of Temper George Keate – Works Samuel Jackson Pratt – Sympathy Non-fiction Maria De Fleury – Unrighteous Abuse Detected and Chastised Mary Deverell – Sermons on the Following Subjects... Edward Gibbon – Volumes II and III of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Henry Home – Loose Hints Upon Education Samuel Johnson The Beauties of Johnson Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets Immanuel Kant – Critique of Pure Reason John Moore – A View of Society and Manners in Italy John Newton – Cardiphonia John Nichols – Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth Magister Pianco (Hans Heinrich von Ecker und Eckhoffen) – Der Rosenkreutzer in seiner Blösse Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Essai sur l'origine des langues Births January 26 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet and novelist (died 1831)Arnim, Ludwig Joachim von 1905 January 30 – Adelbert von Chamisso, German poet and botanist (died 1838)Eva R. Trautmann Adelbert von Chamisso The Alaska diary of Adelbert von Chamisso, naturalist on the Kotzebue voyage, 1815-1818 Cook Inlet Historical Society 1986 1 February 26 – Peter Andresen Oelrichs, Heligoland-born lexicographer (died 1869) March 17 – Ebenezer Elliott, English poet (died 1849) May 14 – Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer, German historian (died 1873) June 12 (probable) – Christian Isobel Johnstone, Scottish journalist and novelist (died 1857) November 3 – Sarah Elizabeth Utterson, English translator and short story writer (died 1851)http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018100516 Utterson, Sarah Elizabeth, 1781-1851 Library of Congress November 6 – Lucy Aikin (Mary Godolphin), English historical writer (died 1864)Linda J. Turzynski, "Lucy Aikin." Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Children's Writers, 1800–1880. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Inc, 1996 November 29 – Andrés Bello, Venezuelan polymath (died 1865)Leonard Irving A. Andrés Bello (1781-1865), National Hero The Hispanic American Historical Review 1954 34 4 502–505 10.2307/2509082 0018-2168 2509082 December 6 – Charlotte von Ahlefeld, German novelist (died 1849) Karl Goedeke Ahlefeldt, Charlotte von Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 1 1875 160 http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Ahlefeldt,_Charlotte_von de December 11 – David Brewster, Scottish scientist and writer (died 1868) Deaths February 15 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German philosopher and dramatist (born 1729) Yasukata Toshimasa Lessing's philosophy of religion and the German enlightenment: Lessing on Christianity and reason Oxford University Press Oxford New York 2002 9780198033103 118 February 22 – Anna Magdalena Godiche, Danish book printer and publisher (born 1721) http://denstoredanske.dk/Dansk_Biografisk_Leksikon/Medier/Bogtrykker/A.H._Godiche A. H. Godiche Dansk Biografisk Leksikon, Gyldendal Lauritz Nielsen April 1, 2019 February 24 – Edward Capell, English Shakespeare scholar (born 1713)Capell, Edward 5 249 March 1 – Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye, French historian, classicist and lexicographer (born 1697) March 17 – Johannes Ewald, Danish dramatist and poet (born 1743) https://runeberg.org/dandig19/0087.html Johannes Ewald Illustreret dansk Literaturhistorie 1 August 2020 May 8 – Richard Jago, English poet and cleric (born 1715)Antiquities in Leicestershire Kraus Reprint Company 1968 464 June 24 – Anna Miller, English poet and salon hostess (born 1741) September 11 – Johann August Ernesti, German theologian and philologist (born 1707) Klemme Heiner The Bloomsbury dictionary of eighteenth-century German philosophers Bloomsbury Publishing Plc New York 2016 9781474255981 189 November 2 – José Francisco de Isla, Spanish satirist (born 1703) November 4 – Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (born 1721)Götz, Johann Nikolaus December 7 – Judith Madan, English poet (born 1702) References 30em External links 1781 Books at Goodreads