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1786 literature poetry
July 2020
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1786.
Events
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January 19 – Franziska Stading plays the female lead in Gustav Vasa (with libretto personally overseen by King Gustav III of Sweden) at the Royal Swedish Opera.Breitholtz Lennart Studier i operan Gustaf Wasa: Études sur la genèse de l'opéra Gustaf Wasa Uppsala universitets årsskrift (0372-4654), 1954:5 1954 Lundequistska bokh Uppsala fr
July 31 – Scottish poet Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect is published by John Wilson in Kilmarnock in 612 copies (the text having been submitted to him on July 13). The volume proves so popular that Burns abandons his plans to emigrate to Jamaica on September 1 for a post as a bookkeeper on a slave plantation and on November 27–28 journeys on a borrowed pony from Mossgiel Farm for his first visit to Edinburgh. Two weeks later he extemporises his "Address to a Haggis", which is first published on December 20 in the Caledonian Mercury.Notable Dates in History http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-e.htm The Flag in the Wind The Scots Independent 2016-01-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20160125210210/http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-e.htm 2016-01-25 dead
October 5 – Death of French official Jean-Baptiste Marie de Piquet, Marquess of Méjanes; his book collection is bequeathed to form the basis of the Bibliothèque Méjanes at Aix-en-Provence.
September 3–December – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe undertakes his Italian Journey (published 1817).David G. John Images of Goethe Through Schiller's Egmont https://books.google.com/books?id=I5ab33ALSTsC&pg=PA210 8 July 1998 McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP 978-0-7735-1681-6 210
November – The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery is inaugurated in London.Stuart Sillars Painting Shakespeare: The Artist as Critic, 1720-1820 https://books.google.com/books?id=a8Piqev7LAkC&pg=PA254 23 February 2006 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-85308-8 254
New books
Fiction
William Thomas Beckford – Vathek
James Boswell – Dorado, a Spanish Tale (published anonymously)
Harriet Lee – The Errors of InnocenceUniversity of Montreal: British Women Playwrights around 1800 Accessed 28 April 2013
Isabelle de Montolieu (as "le traducteur de Werther") – Caroline de Lichtfield, ou Mémoires extraits des papiers d'une famille prussienne
Johann Karl August Musäus – Volksmärchen der Deutschen (fourth volume)
André-Robert Andréa de Nerciat – Le Diable au Corps
Friedrich Schiller – The Ghost-Seer (Der Geisterseher, publication commences)
Children
Mrs. Trimmer
Fabulous HistoriesGrenby, M.O. "'A Conservative Woman Doing Radical Things': Sarah Trimmer and The Guardian of Education." Culturing the Child, 1690–1914, ed. Donelle Ruwe. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005. 0-8108-5182-2, "Introduction", viii.
A Description of a Set of Prints of Scripture History
Rudolf Erich Raspe (published anonymously)
Singular Travels, Campaigns, Voyages, and Sporting Adventures of Baron Munnikhouson, commonly pronounced Munchausen (2nd ed.)
Translated into German from English by Gottfried August Bürger – The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchhausen
Drama
Tituš Brezovački – Sveti AleksijRadoslav Katičić Slobodan Prosperov Novak Two Thousand Years of Writing in Croatia https://books.google.com/books?id=hpYsAAAAYAAJ 1989 SNL 978-86-329-0330-2 114
John Burgoyne – The Heiress and Richard Coeur de Lion
George Colman the Elder – Tit for Tat
Hannah Cowley – A School for GreybeardsNancy Eileen Copeland Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre: Women's Comedy and the Theatre https://books.google.com/books?id=SQhaAAAAMAAJ 2004 Ashgate 978-0-7546-3125-5 15
John Delap – The Captives
Germaine de Staël – Sophie
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Iphigenia in Tauris (verse version)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Iphigenia in Tauris https://books.google.com/books?id=kOznAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR15 1966 Manchester University Press 15
Elizabeth Inchbald – The Widow's VowDerek Hughes Eighteenth-century Women Playwrights: Elizabeth Inchbald https://books.google.com/books?id=5RpXAAAAYAAJ 2001 Pickering & Chatto 978-1-85196-616-5 1–2
James Johnstone – The Disbanded OfficerJames Johnstone The Disbanded Officer: Or, the Baroness of Bruchsal: a Comedy. As Performed at the Theatre Royal in the Hay-Market https://books.google.com/books?id=rnafwgEACAAJ 1786 T. Cadell
John O'Keeffe
Love in a Camp
The Siege of Curzola
Frederick Pilon – He Would Be a Soldier
Frederic Reynolds – Eloisa
Poetry
1786 in poetry
Robert Burns – Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
Helen Maria Williams – Poems (on religious and political subjects)
Non-fiction
Thomas Clarkson – An Essay of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African (translation of a 1784 Latin essay competition entry)
John Gilchrist – A Dictionary English and Hindoostanee. To which Is Prefixed a Grammar of the Hindoostanee Language (begins publication)
William Herschel – Catalogue of One Thousand New Nebulae and Clusters of StarsRhodri Evans The Cosmic Microwave Background: How It Changed Our Understanding of the Universe https://books.google.com/books?id=l3S1BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA27 4 December 2014 Springer 978-3-319-09928-6 27
Immanuel Kant – Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft
Richard Payne Knight – An Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus... (later A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus...)
Friedrich Schiller – Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre
Emanuel Swedenborg – Divine Love and Wisdom (translated from Latin into French by Antoine-Joseph Pernety)
Hester Thrale – Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson
John Horne Tooke – 'Epea Pteroenta' – The Diversions of Purley (Winged Words, part 2 in 1805)
Births
February 3 – Wilhelm Gesenius, German philologist and theologian (died 1842)
February 11 – James Cowles Prichard, English ethnologist and psychiatrist
February 24 – Wilhelm Grimm, German philologist and folklorist (died 1859)
May 10 – Esther Copley, English children's writer and tractarian (died 1851)
May 12 – Jean-François Barrière, French historian (died 1868)
June 20 – Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, French poet (died 1859)
June 26 – Sunthorn Phu, Thai poet (died 1855)
August 25 – James Silk Buckingham, English journalist and travel writer (died 1855)
October 23 – Barron Field, English-born Australian poet (died 1846)
December 6 – Caroline Anne Southey (Caroline Anne Bowles), English poet (died 1854)
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Helena Charlotta Åkerhielm, Swedish dramatist and translator (died 1828)
Eaton Stannard Barrett, Irish satirical poet and novelist (died 1820)Daniel O'Connell 1829-1832 https://books.google.com/books?id=IJwxAQAAIAAJ 1972 Irish University Press for the Irish Manuscripts Commission 51
Caroline Cornwallis, English feminist writer (d. 1858)Cornwallis, Caroline Frances 12
Deaths
January 4 – Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher of the Haskalah or Jewish enlightenment (born 1729).
January 19 – John Duncombe, English writer and cleric (born 1729)
March 11 – Jacobus Bellamy, Dutch poet (born 1757)
April 13 – Jan Tomáš Kuzník, Czech musician and poet (born 1716)
May 4 – Johann Kaspar Füssli, artist, writer and publisher (born 1743)https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/025937/2006-11-20/ Füssli, Johann Kaspar Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz 4 January 2021 de
August 15 – Thomas Tyrwhitt, English classicist and critic (born 1730)The Gentleman's Magazine (London, England) https://books.google.com/books?id=SGIdAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA551 1836 F. Jefferies 551
November 30 – Thomas Thistlewood, English-born Jamaican diarist (born 1721)
December 26 – Gasparo Gozzi, Italian dramatist and critic (born 1713)John Louis DiGaetani Carlo Gozzi: A Life in the 18th Century Venetian Theater, an Afterlife in Opera https://books.google.com/books?id=LEJdAAAAMAAJ 2000 McFarland 978-0-7864-0077-5 184
References
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External links
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