1758 in literature

none August 2020 1758 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1758. Events April 15 – Samuel Johnson begins publishing a series of essays, The Idler (1758–1760), in the Universal Chronicle. April 24 – Robert Dodsley and his brother James sign a contract with Edmund Burke to launch The Annual Register. April 27 – The French historian Jean-François Marmontel enters the service of Madame de Pompadour.Michael Cardy The Literary Doctrines of Jean-François Marmontel https://books.google.com/books?id=zxJdAAAAMAAJ 1982 Voltaire Foundation at the Taylor Institution 978-0-7294-0287-3 3–6 July/August – The poet and children's writer Anna Laetitia Barbauld and her family move to Warrington in north-west England.William McCarthy Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voice of the Enlightenment https://books.google.com/books?id=kTZL66z4CF0C&pg=PA570 2008 JHU Press 978-0-8018-9016-1 570 October – Voltaire buys an estate at Ferney in eastern France.Ian Davidson Voltaire: A Life https://books.google.com/books?id=Q_p9Z8z9-wYC&pg=PT351 9 December 2010 Profile Books 978-1-84765-224-9 351 unknown date – The French mathematician and philosopher Pierre Louis Maupertuis moves to his final home in Basel, Switzerland. New books Fiction Charlotte Lennox – Henrietta Madame (Riccoboni) – Histoire du marquis de Cressy Horace Walpole – A Dialogue Between Two Great Ladies Drama John Cleland – Tombo-Chiqui, or, The American Savage (not produced) Denis Diderot – Le Père de famille Robert Dodsley – Cleone David Garrick – Florizel and Perdita John Home – Aegis Charlotte Lennox – Philander Arthur Murphy – The Upholsterer George Alexander Stevens – Albion Restored Poetry 1758 in poetry Mark Akenside – An Ode to the Country Gentlemen Anica Bošković – Dijalog John Gilbert Cooper – The Call of Aristippus Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim – Preussische Kriegslieder von einem Grenadier (Prussian War Songs of a Grenadier) Eugenio Gerardo Lobo – Obras poéticas James Macpherson – The Highlander Heyat Mahmud – Āmbiyābāṇī; BengaliHeyat Mamud Wakil Ahmed Thomas Parnell – Posthumous Works Non-fiction John Armstrong as Launcelot Temple – Sketches, or, Essays on Various Subjects William Blackstone – A Discourse on the Study of Law Rev. Dr. John Brown – An Explanatory Defence of the Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times (2nd volume) Andrés Marcos Burriel – Paleografía española Elizabeth Carter (translator) – All the Works of Epictetus Which Are Now Extant José Francisco de Isla – Historia del famoso predicador Fray Gerundio de Campazas, alias Zotes Benjamin Franklin – Father Abraham's Sermon Oliver Goldsmith as "James Willington" – The Memoirs of a Protestant William Hawkins – Tracts in Divinity Claude Adrien Helvétius – De l'Esprit Henry Home – Historical Law-Tracts Carl Linnaeus – Systema Naturae (10th edition), Tomus I, Animalia Robert Lowth – The Life of William of Wykeham Thomas Marryat – Therapeutics, or a New Practice of Physic (original version, in Latin) Antoine-Joseph Pernety Dictionnaire mytho-hermétique, dans lequel on trouve les allégories fabuleuses des poètes, les métaphores, les énigmes et les termes barbares des philosophes hermétiques expliqués Les Fables égyptiennes et grecques dévoilées et réduites au même principe, avec une explication des hiéroglyphes et de la guerre de Troye Antoine Simon Le Page Du Pratz – Histoire de la Louisiane (History of Louisiana) Richard Price – A Review of the Principal Questions and Difficulties in Morals Emanuel Swedenborg Earths in the Universe Heaven and Hell New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine The Last Judgement Jonathan Swift – The History of the Last Four Years of the Queen Horace Walpole A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England Fugitive Pieces Arthur Young – The Theatre of the Present War in North America Births January 12 – Dmitry Gorchakov, Russian writer, dramatist and poet (died 1824) February 3 Vasily Kapnist, Ukrainian poet and playwright (died 1823) Valentin Vodnik, Carniolan Slovene poet, writer and priest (died 1819) February 10 – Amalia Holst, German writer, intellectual, and feminist (died 1829) March 15 – Magdalene Sophie Buchholm, Norwegian poet (died 1826) April 30 – Jane West (Prudentia Homespun), English novelist and writer of conduct books (died 1852) October 16 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer (died 1843) December 9 – Richard Colt Hoare, English antiquary, archeologist and traveler (died 1838) Deaths January 7 – Allan Ramsay the Elder, Scottish poet (born 1686) March 22 – Jonathan Edwards, American theologian and preacher (born 1703) October – Theophilus Cibber, English dramatist and actor (born 1703; lost at sea)Barker, Richard Hindry (1939) Mr Cibber of Drury Lane, New York: Columbia University Press. p193 October 27 bur. – Elizabeth Blackwell, Scottish botanic writer and illustrator (born 1707) December 25 – James Hervey, English religious writer and cleric (born 1714) References