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none 1747 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1747. Events March 31 – Laurence Sterne preaches the Good Friday sermon at St Helen Stonegate; The Case of Elijah and the Widow of Zerephath is later printed and published.St Helen Stonegate: Laurence Sterne and the Good Humour Club https://web.archive.org/web/20160414090715/http://www.sthelensyork.org.uk/goodhumour.html 2016-04-14 . Accessed 27 March 2016. April 9 – David Garrick becomes joint patentee and manager of the Drury Lane Theatre in London.Dougald MacMillan Drury Lane Calendar, 1747-1776 https://books.google.com/books?id=DAplAAAAMAAJ 1938 Clarendon Press xi December 1 – Samuel Richardson's two-volume epistolary novel Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady ("by the Editor of Pamela") begins publication in London from his own print shop, dated 1748.Tom Keymer Richardson's 'Clarissa' and the Eighteenth-Century Reader https://books.google.com/books?id=t8XCA3r0eVgC&pg=PR22 24 June 2004 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-60440-6 22 unknown date – The Załuski Library in Warsaw is opened to the public.James Edward Thomas Barry Elsey International Biography of Adult Education https://books.google.com/books?id=Yq_VAAAAIAAJ 1985 Department of Adult Education, University of Nottingham 978-1-85041-001-0 670 New books Prose William Blackstone (attributed) – The Pantheon Thomas Carte – A General History of England Juan de Iriarte – Discurso sobre la imperfección de los diccionariosGuillermo Díaz-Plaja Guillermo Díaz-Plaja Historia general de las literaturas hispánicas: Siglos XVIII y XIX. 2 v https://books.google.com/books?id=G79WAAAAYAAJ 1967 Editorial Vergara 60 es Diego de Torres Villarroel – Desengaños razonables para sacudir el polvo del espanto Denis Diderot – La Promenade du sceptique (completed; not published until 1830)Israel Jonathon Jonathan Israel Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752 https://books.google.com/books?id=7qAeKpIIxCsC&pg=PA790 2009 Oxford University Press 978-0199541522 790–791 William Dunkin – Boetia Thomas Edward – A Supplement to Mr. Warburton's Edition of Shakespear Henry Fielding, as "John Trott Plaid" – The Jacobite's Journal (periodical) Sarah Fielding – Familiar Letters Between the Principal Characters in David Simple (a defense against unauthorized continuations) Samuel Foote – The Roman and English Comedy Consider'dFoote, Samuel 10 625–628 Hannah Glasse, as "A Lady" – The Art of Cookery Made Plain and EasyPrince Rose Hannah Glasse: The original domestic goddess https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/hannah-glasse-the-original-domestic-goddess-405277.html https://web.archive.org/web/20100607081749/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/hannah-glasse-the-original-domestic-goddess-405277.html dead June 7, 2010 The Independent 22 March 2015 24 June 2006 Madame de Graffigny – Lettres d'une Péruvienne Henry Home, Lord Kames – Essays Upon Several Subjects Concerning British Antiquities Samuel Johnson – The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language David Mallet – Amyntor and Theodora William Memoth, the younger – The Letters of Pliny the Consul Josiah Ralph – A Miscellany Samuel Richardson – Clarissa vol. i–ii William Shakespeare – The Works of Shakespear (edited by William Warburton) Tobias Smollett – Reproof Joseph Spence – PolymetisTimothy Webb English Romantic Hellenism, 1700-1824 https://books.google.com/books?id=_BcNAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA80 1982 Manchester University Press 978-0-7190-0772-9 80 Voltaire – Zadig (in original form as Memnon) Horace Walpole – A Letter to the Whigs Joseph Warton – Ranelagh House Thomas Warton – The Pleasures of Melancholy Drama John Cunningham – Love in a Mist Samuel Foote – The Diversions of the Morning or, A Dish of ChocolateAllardyce Nicoll The Garrick Stage: Theatres and Audience in the Eighteenth Century https://books.google.com/books?id=mb3nAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA5 1981 Manchester University Press 978-0-7190-0858-0 5 David Garrick – Miss in Her Teens Christian Fürchtegott Gellert – Die zärtlichen Schwestern (The Affectionate Sisters)Rudolf Neuhäuser Towards the Romantic Age: Essays on Sentimental and Preromantic Literature in Russia https://books.google.com/books?id=DS_4CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA44 14 October 2013 Springer 978-94-017-4699-1 44 Carlo Goldoni – The Venetian Twins (I due gemelli veneziani)Judith Chaffee Oliver Crick The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell'Arte https://books.google.com/books?id=BUGLBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA331 20 November 2014 Routledge 978-1-317-61337-4 331 Benjamin Hoadly – The Suspicious HusbandEdward A. Langhans Kalman A. Burnim Philip H. Highfill A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press 1982 187 Edward Moore – The Foundling Takeda Izumo II, Miyoshi Shōraku and Namiki Senryū I – Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜, Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees, original version for bunraku puppet theatre) Poetry 1747 in poetry Philip Francis – A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace Charlotte Lennox – Poems William Mason – Musaeus: A monody to the memory of Pope (an imitation of Milton's Lycidas) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu – Six Town Eclogues Births January 11 – François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, French economics writer (died 1827) January 12 – Susanna Blamire, English dialect poet and songwriter (died 1794)Henry Lonsdale William Wardsworth, Susanna Blamire, Thomas Tickell, Jane Christian Blamire, the Loshes of Woodside, Dr. Thomas Addison, Hugh Lee Pattison https://books.google.com/books?id=xZA4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA46 1873 George Routledge & sons 46 January 15 – John Aikin, English biographer, activist and physician (died 1822)Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld https://books.google.com/books?id=FIqa-7dx_N0C&pg=PR43 1 January 1994 University of Georgia Press 978-0-8203-1528-7 43 January 26 – Samuel Parr, English schoolmaster and writer, "the Whig Johnson" (died 1825)Parr, Samuel Stephen Leslie Leslie Stephen January – William Seward, English man of letters (died 1799) February 19 – John "Walking" Stewart, English traveller and philosopher (died 1822) March 10 – Iolo Morganwg, Welsh antiquarian, bookseller, poet and literary forger (died 1826)https://archives.library.wales/index.php/iolo-morganwg-1747-2 Iolo Morganwg, 1747-1826 Archives Wales National Library of Wales 8 October 2021 September 30 – John Mastin, English memoirist, local historian and cleric (died 1829) December 12 – Anna Seward, English poet (died 1809)Paula R. Feldman British Women Poets of the Romantic Era: An Anthology https://books.google.com/books?id=Cg6Jn410aCIC&pg=PA647 19 January 2001 JHU Press 978-0-8018-6640-1 647 Unknown date John Edwards (1747–1792), Welsh poet (died 1792)https://biography.wales/article/s-EDWA-JOH-1747 Edwards, John (Siôn Ceiriog; 1747-1792), bard and orator Griffith John Williams Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 30 June 2020 Thomas Scott, English cleric and religious writer (died 1821) Deaths January 16 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes German poet (born 1680)German Baroque Writers, 1661-1730 Gale Research 1996 62 May 28 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, essayist (born 1715)Peter Martin Fine Vauvenargues and La Rochefoucauld https://books.google.com/books?id=5327AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1 1974 Manchester University Press 978-0-7190-0588-6 1 August Charles Fleetwood, manager of Drury Lane Theatre (year of birth unknown)Milling J. Goodman, Cardell (b. 1653) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online 2004 Oxford University Press http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10974 10.1093/ref:odnb/10974 24 March 2015 Leonard Welsted, English poet (born 1688)James Sambrook: The life of the English poet Leonard Welsted (1688 – 1747) : the culture and politics of Britain's eighteenth-century literary wars, Lewiston [u.a.] : Edwin Mellen Press, 2014, 978-0-7734-0049-8 September 7 – Michel Maittaire, French classical scholar, bibliographer and grammarian (born 1668)Maittaire, Michael November 17 – Alain-René Le Sage, French novelist and playwright (born 1668)Charles F. Partington The British Cyclopedia of Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=eLkTAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA188 1838 188 November 21 – Robert Mylne, Scottish antiquarian and writer (born 1643)Mylne, Robert (1643?-1747) November 22 – Joseph Trapp, poet, controversialist and translator (born 1679) December 23 – Étienne-François Avisse, French dramatist (born 1694)Nouvelle biographie générale: depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nous jours Firmin-Didot frères 1861 871 fr References 30em