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1772 literature poetry
July 2020
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1772.
Events
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March – Gottfried August Bürger obtains a magistracy and is reconciled with his family.William Alfred Little Gottfried August Bürger https://books.google.com/books?id=ITYbAAAAYAAJ 1974 Twayne Publishers 978-0-8057-2185-0
May 7 – The Stadsschouwburg theatre in Amsterdam is destroyed by fire.
June
In June 1772, Marquis de Sade and his manservant, Latour, traveled to Marseilles on the pretext of obtaining a loan. On June 27, they engaged in an elaborately staged orgy with four prostitutes. The orgy included sexual intercourse, flagellation, and, according to some witnesses, both active and passive anal sex involving Sade, Latour and one of the prostitutes. Sade offered the prostitutes aniseed-flavored pastilles laced with Spanish fly. One of the prostitutes, Marianne Laverne, became ill after eating the pastilles. That evening, Sade had sex with another prostitute, Marguerite Coste, who became critically ill after eating the pastilles. Coste filed a complaint with the police and, after an investigation, a warrant was issued for the arrest of Sade on charges of both sodomy and poisoning.Lever 1993 194–206Schaeffer 2000 125–30, 137
Charles Burney tours Europe, researching for his History of Music.Roger H. Lonsdale Dr. Charles Burney: A Literary Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=wgo6AAAAIAAJ 1965 Clarendon Press
September 12 – The Göttinger Hainbund of German poets is formed at a midnight ritual in an oaken grove.
November 10 – The wife of poet Pedro Correia Garção obtains an order for his release from prison, the very day of his death.
November 28 – Publication of the Bible in the Manx language is completed.G. W. Wood An Account of the Translation and Editions of the Holy Scriptures in the Manx Language http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/history/manks/script.htm The Manx Church Magazine 6 1896
unknown dates
Thomas Paine produces his first published work, a political article entitled Case of the Officers of Excise.J. C. D. Clark Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution https://books.google.com/books?id=j2pNDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA85 2018 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-881699-7 85
Hannah More arrives in London.
An Armenian language press is set up in Chennai, India.
New books
Fiction
Elizabeth Bonhôte – The Rambles of Mr Frankly, Published by his Sister
Jacques Cazotte – The Devil in Love
Robert Fergusson – The Daft Days
Sarah Scott – The Test of Filial Duty
David Williams – Letter to David Garrick
Drama
György Bessenyei – Ágis tragédiája
Richard Cumberland – The Fashionable Lover
Samuel Foote – The Nabob
Vicente Garcia de la Huerta – Raquel
David Garrick – The Irish Widow
Gotthold Lessing – Emilia Galotti
Louis-Sébastien Mercier
Le faux ami (The False Friend)
Jean Hennuyer, évêque de Lisieux (written)
Arthur Murphy – The Grecian Daughter
Poetry
1772 in poetry
Mark Akenside – Poems
Thomas Chatterton – The Execution of Sir Charles Bawdin
William Jones – Poems, Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick Languages
William Kenrick – Love in the Suds
William Mason – The English Garden
Christopher Smart – Hymns, for the Amusement of Children
George Alexander Stevens – Songs
Non-fiction
Alphabetum grandonico-malabaricum sive samscrudonicum (with a preface by Giovanni Cristofano Amaduzzi)
The Encyclopédie in 28 volumes by Diderot, d'Alembert, and many others
Moses Browne – The Excellency of the Knowledge of Jesus Christ
José Cadalso – Los eruditos a la violeta
William Chambers – A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening
Junius (possibly Philip Francis) – Junius: Stat Nominis Umbra
Francis Grose – The Antiquities of England and Wales
Johann Gottfried Herder – Abhandlung über den Ursprung der Sprache (Treatise on the Origin of Language)
Richard Hurd – An Introduction to the Study of Prophecies...
Carsten Niebuhr – Beschreibung von Arabien
Joseph Priestley – The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours
Francis Stoughton Sullivan (died 1766) – An Historical Treatise on the Feudal Law, and the Constitution and Laws of England
Catherine Talbot – Essays on Various Subjects
Wilhelm Abraham Teller – Wörterbuch des Neuen Testamentes zur Erklärung der christlichen Lehre (Dictionary of the New Testament for the Explanation of Christian Doctrine)
Births
January 15 – James Ballantyne, Scottish editor and publisher (died 1833)
March 10 – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, German poet, literary critic, philosopher and philologist (died 1829)
April 11 – Manuel José Quintana, Spanish poet (died 1857)
May 2 – Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg), German poet and philosopher (died 1801)
August 29 – Sarah Burney, English novelist (died 1844)
September 27 – Sándor Kisfaludy, Hungarian poet (died 1844)
October 21 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (died 1834)
November 17 – Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers, French dramatist (died 1827)
November 28 – Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann, German classical commentator and philologist (died 1848)
December 6
John Carr, English travel writer and lawyer (died 1832)
Henry Cary, Gibraltar-born Irish author, editor and translator (died 1844)
unknown date – Maria Riddell, West Indies-born poet, naturalist and travel writer resident in Scotland (died 1808)Moira Ferguson Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: Nation, Class, and Gender https://books.google.com/books?id=PX1SUzLS-7gC&pg=PA142 16 November 1995 SUNY Press 978-0-7914-2512-1 142
probable – Charlotte Dacre, English Gothic novelist (died 1825)Lucy Cogan Confessions of the Nun of St Omer: by Charlotte Dacre https://books.google.com/books?id=93SPCwAAQBAJ&pg=PR11 12 February 2016 Routledge 978-1-317-26694-5 11
Deaths
March 26 – Charles Pinot Duclos, French novelist and encyclopedist (born 1704)
March 29 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher (born 1688)
May 22 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (born 1687)
June – Thomas Whately, English politician and writer (born 1726)
June 18 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German philosopher (born 1706)
October 7 – John Woolman, American abolitionist author (smallpox, born 1720)Slaughter, Thomas P. (2008). The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition, New York: Hill and Wang, p. 378
October 10 – William Wilkie, Scottish poet (ague, born 1721)Wilkie, William 61
November 10 – Pedro Correia Garção, Portuguese poet (born 1724)
unknown dates
Thomas Hawkins, English editor and cleric (born 1729)
Margareta Momma, Swedish editor and writer (born 1702)
References
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Sources
Lever Maurice Marquis de Sade, a biography Harper Collins 1993 0-246-13666-9 London Goldhammer Arthur
Schaeffer Neal The Marquis de Sade: a Life Knopf Doubleday 2000 978-0-67400-392-7 New York City
External links
1772 Books at Goodreads