1779 in literature

none April 2019 1779 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1779. Events thumb|Performance of Iphigenie auf Tauris featuring Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as Orestes, Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach as Pylades, and Corona Schröter as Iphigenia April 6 – The premiėre of Iphigenie auf Tauris by Johann Wolfgang Goethe is held at the private Ducal Palace in Weimar.Volker Schachenmayr Points of Connection Among Classical Statuary, the Grand Tour, and Stage Performance in the Age of Goethe https://books.google.com/books?id=bdsgAQAAIAAJ 1996 Stanford University 210 October 8 – William Blake enrols as a student with the Royal Academy of Arts at Somerset House in London.Blake https://books.google.com/books?id=OyKaAAAAIAAJ 2006 University of New Mexico, Department of English 101 New books Fiction Richard Graves – Columella Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi – Woldemar Ignacy Krasicki – Fables and Parables (Bajki i przypowieści) Nocturnal Revels Samuel Jackson Pratt as "Courtney Melmoth" Shenstone-Green The Tutor of Truth The Sorrows of Werther (anonymous translation of a Johann Wolfgang von Goethe work) Children Joachim Heinrich Campe – Robinson der Jüngere (based on Defoe) Drama Fanny Burney – The Witlings (unpublished) Hannah Cowley Albina, Countess Raimond Who's the Dupe? Richard Cumberland – Calypso Hugh Downman – Lucius Junius Brutus Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian – Les Deux Billets William Hodson – Zoraida Robert Jephson – The Law of Lombardy Gotthold Ephraim Lessing – Nathan der Weise (published) Hannah More – The Fatal Falsehood Elizabeth Richardson – The Double Deception Richard Brinsley Sheridan – The Critic Poetry 1779 in poetry William Cowper and John Newton – Olney Hymns Robert Fergusson – Poems William Hayley – Epistle to Admiral Keppel Ann Murry – Poems Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos – Epístola de Jovino a Anfriso, escrita desde el Paular Leandro Fernandez de Moratín – La toma de Granada por los Reyes Católicos don Fernando y doña Isabel Tomás de Iriarte – La música Non-fiction John Abercrombie – The British Fruit Gardener and Art of Pruning Anna Barbauld – Lessons for Children James Burnett – Antient Metaphysics Edward Capell – Notes and Various Readings to Shakespeare George Chalmers – Political Annals of the Present United Colonies Edward Gibbon – A Vindication of Some Passages in the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire David Hume (died 1776; anonymously) – Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Samuel Johnson – Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets Vicessimus Knox – Essays Franz Mesmer – Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal John Moore – A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany Thomas Scott – The Force of Truth Horace Walpole – A Letter to the Editor of the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton Births January 18 – Peter Mark Roget, English lexicographer (died 1869) March 1 – Gottfried Weber, German writer on music (died 1839) March 3 – Matthäus Casimir von Collin, Austrian poet and dramatist (died 1824) March 10 – Frances Trollope (born Frances Milton), English novelist and writer (died 1863) March 30 – Antoine Ó Raifteirí, Irish Gaelic poet (died 1835) May 2 – John Galt, Scottish novelist and entrepreneur (died 1839)The English Cyclopædia: A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge 1856 Bradbury and Evans 22 https://books.google.com/books?id=_7dCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA22 en May 28 – Thomas Moore, Irish poet and songwriter (died 1852) August 1 – Francis Scott Key, American poet (died 1843) September 10 – Alexander Voeykov, Russian poet (died 1839) November 14 – Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish Romantic poet and dramatist (died 1850) December 22 – Thomas Gaisford, English classicist (died 1855) December 31 – Horace (Horatio) Smith, English poet and novelist (died 1849)Horace Smith English writer https://www.britannica.com/biography/Horace-Smith Encyclopedia Britannica 8 April 2019 en Deaths January 20 – David Garrick, English dramatist, actor and impresario (born 1717)Greenway Diana E. 1999 List 30: Prebendaries, Husthwaite Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 6, York London Institute of Historical Research 81–82 March 4 – Heinrich Leopold Wagner, German dramatist (born 1747) June 7 – William Warburton, English writer, critic and cleric (born 1698) June 10 – William Kenrick, English novelist, playwright and satirist (born c. 1725) July 10 – Jane Gomeldon, English essayist and writer of maxims (born c. 1720)Joseph Smith A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends' Books: Or Books Written by Members of the Society of Friends, Commonly Called Quakers, from Their First Rise to the Present Time, Interspersed with Critical Remarks, and Occasional Biographical Notices ... https://books.google.com/books?id=8EItAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA848 1863 Joseph Smith 848 July 21 – Caleb Fleming, English minister and pamphleteer (born 1698)The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=TH8QAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA412 1818 Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper 412 November 16 – Pehr Kalm, Swedish/Finnish botanist, naturalist and travel writer (born 1716) December 22 – István Küzmics (Števan Küzmič), Hungarian writer in Prekmurje Slovene (Wendish) (born c. 1723) References External links 1779 Books at Goodreads