1752 in literature

none 1752 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1752. Events thumb|right|250px|Scene from Samuel Foote's satire Taste with the playwright cross-dressed as Lady Pentweazel (painting by Robert Smirke) January 4 – The Paper War of 1752–1753 begins with the first issue of The Covent-Garden Journal, where Henry Fielding starts a long quarrel with John Hill by declaring war against hack writers.Poetical Works p. 443. Tobias Smollett soon becomes involved, accusing Fielding of plagiarism. February 29 – Thomas Sheridan introduces at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin a version of Shakespeare's Coriolanus that incorporates parts of the version by James Thomson, as Coriolanus, or The Roman Matron.John Ripley Coriolanus on Stage in England and America, 1609-1994 https://books.google.com/books?id=rEkcu2j3jO4C&pg=PA344 1998 Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press 978-0-8386-3741-8 344 September 15 – At Williamsburg, Virginia, Lewis Hallam begins a North American tour with his brother William's company, with a production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.Joshua R. LeHuray Virginians Will Dance or Die!: The Importance of Music in Pre-Revolutionary Williamsburg https://books.google.com/books?id=4xHaDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA112 27 May 2016 McFarland 978-1-4766-6284-8 112 unknown date – The first of the Herculaneum papyri are discovered.Kenneth Lapatin Buried by Vesuvius: The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum https://books.google.com/books?id=ztaMDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA124 16 July 2019 Getty Publications 978-1-60606-592-1 124 New books Fiction Charlotte Lennox – The Female QuixoteSusan Carlile Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind https://books.google.com/books?id=4Q9aDwAAQBAJ 1 January 2018 University of Toronto Press 978-1-4426-2623-2 90 Voltaire – Histoire du docteur Akakia et du natif de Saint-Malo Drama Samuel Foote – Taste Poetry 1752 in poetry Moses Browne – The Works and Rest of the Creation John Byrom – Enthusiasm Richard Owen Cambridge – A Dialogue Between a Member of Parliament and His Servant Thomas Cooke – Pythagoras William Mason – Elfrida Christopher Smart – Poems Non-fiction George Ballard – Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain Who Have Been Celebrated for their Writing or Skill in the Learned Languages, Arts, and Sciences George Berkeley – A Miscellany Thomas Birch – The Life of John Tillotson Francis Blackburne – A Serious Inquiry into the Use and Importance of External Religion William Dodd – The Beauties of Shakespeare Henry Fielding as "Sir Alexander Drawcansir" – The Covent-Garden Journal (periodical) John Hawkesworth – The Adventurer (periodical) David Hume – Political DiscoursesWennerlind Carl David Hume’s Monetary Theory Revisited: Was He Really a Quantity Theorist and an Inflationist? Journal of Political Economy 2005 113 1 223–237 10.1086/426037 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/426037 12 January 2022 0022-3808 subscription William Law The Spirit of Love The Way to Divine Knowledge Henry St. John – Letters on the Study and Use of History José Francisco de Isla – Cartas de Juan de la Encina Diego de Torres Villarroel – Obra` Births January 3 – Johannes von Müller, Swiss historian (died 1809) February 17 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German dramatist and novelist (died 1831)Ayres H.M. The Reader's Dictionary of Authors 1917 Warner Library Co. New York https://www.bartleby.com/library/bios/3515.html 24 March 2019 Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger (1752–1831) June 13 – Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (died 1840) November 20 – Thomas Chatterton, English poet and forger of medieval poetry (died 1770) Deaths September 19 – Louis Fuzelier, French dramatist (born 1672) September 22 – Péter Apor, Hungarian historian writing in Latin (born 1676) October 24 – Christian Falster, Danish poet and philologist (born 1690) November 2 – Johann Albrecht Bengel, German New Testament commentator (born 1687) November 5 – Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (born 1670) Unknown date – Li E (厲鶚), Chinese poet (born 1692) See also Augustan literature References 30em