1787 in literature

none 1787 literature poetry July 2020 May 2022 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1787. Events thumb|250px|The fleur-de-lis watermark of the handmade paper in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish dialect. January 15 – Ann Ward marries William Radcliffe, gaining the surname by which she will be known as a writer of Gothic novels.http://www.enotes.com/mysteries-udolpho-criticism/mysteries-udolpho-ann-radcliffe eNotes The Mysteries of Udolpho April 16 – Royall Tyler's The Contrast becomes the first comedy written by an American citizen to be professionally produced. James Benjamin Wilbur, Preface to The Contrast, by Royall Tyler, Houghton Mifflin, 1920, p.xiv.It was staged at the John Street Theatre. April 17 – The Edinburgh edition of Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish dialect is published by William Creech.Egerer Joel W. 1964 A Bibliography of Robert Burns Oliver and Boyd 1-85152-734-6 9Hogg Patrick Scott 2008 Robert Burns. The Patriot Bard Mainstream Publishing 978-1-8459-6412-2 141 It includes a Burns portrait by Alexander Nasmyth. The poet has great social success in the city's literary circles; 16-year-old Walter Scott meets him at the house of Adam Ferguson. May 11 – An Enquiry into the Principles on Which a Commercial System for the United States of America Should Be Founded, is written by Tench Coxe.Coxe Tench Tench Coxe An Enquiry into the Principles on Which a Commercial System for the United States of America Should Be Founded; To Which Are Added Some Political Observations Connected with the Subject Philadelphia Robert Aitken 1787 It is read by The Society for Political Inquiries in Philadelphia, before the Constitutional Convention.Vinson Michael The Society for Political Inquiries: The Limits of Republican Discourse in Philadelphia on the Eve of the Constitutional Convention The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 113 2 1989 185–205 20092327 https://www.jstor.org/stable/20092327 14 May 2026 June 1 – King George III of Great Britain issues a Proclamation for the Discouragement of Vice, which can be used to prosecute obscene publications.Anne Stott Associate Lecturer Open University and Sessional Lecturer Anne Stott Hannah More: The First Victorian https://books.google.com/books?id=XzuISrv4Cx4C&pg=PA96 2003 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-924532-1 96 June 27 – Just before midnight, Edward Gibbon completes The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in the small summerhouse in his garden in Lausanne, Switzerland. July – Friedrich Schiller arrives in Weimar.Nicholas Martin Nietzsche and Schiller: Untimely Aesthetics https://books.google.com/books?id=FIfUYTfnS2IC&pg=PA117 1996 Clarendon Press 978-0-19-815913-1 117 November 21 – François-Joseph Talma makes his professional stage debut at the Comédie-Française as Seide, in Voltaire's Mahomet. December 4 – Robert Burns meets Agnes Maclehose at a party given by Miss Erskine Nimmo.Hecht Hans 1936 Robert Burns: The Man and His Work London William Hodge 106 New books Fiction Elizabeth Bonhôte – Olivia, or, The Deserted Bride Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai – Les Amours du chevalier de Faublas Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – The Sorrows of Young Werther (revised edition)vii–viii https://books.google.com/books?id=XDVQt20sZFEC&pg=PR7 Introduction to The Sorrows of Young Werther 978-0486433639 Appelbaum Stanley 2004-06-04 Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse – Ardinghello and die glückseligen Inseln Elizabeth Helme – Louisa; or the Cottage on the Moor Johann Karl August Musäus – Volksmärchen der Deutschen (fifth volume)John Oxenford John Oxenford C. A. Feiling Introduction Tales from the German 1844 viii Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins – The Victim of Fancy Betje Wolff and Aagje Deken – Abraham Blankaart Children François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil – Fanfan et Lolotte, ou Histoire de deux enfants abandonnés dans une île déserte (Fanfan and Lolotte, Story of Two Children Abandoned on a Desert Island) Drama Pierre Beaumarchais – Tarare (opera) George Colman the Elder –The Village Lawyer George Colman the Younger – Inkle and Yarico (comic opera) Richard Cumberland – The Country AttorneyWatson George The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800 Cambridge University Press 1971 1968 Germaine de Staël – Jeanne Grey Thomas Holcroft – SeductionNicoll, Allardyce. A History of English Drama 1660–1900: Volume III. Cambridge University Press, 2009. Page 271 Elizabeth Inchbald All on a Summer's DayGreene, John C. Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820: A Calendar of Performances, Volume 6. Lexington Books, 2011. Page 4495 The Midnight Hour Such Things Are Harriet Lee – The New Peerage Andrew Macdonald –Vimonda Friedrich Schiller – Don Karlos, Infant von Spanien Royall Tyler – The Contrast Poetry 1787 in poetry Non-fiction Thomas Best – A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling Mathurin Jacques Brisson – Pesanteur Spécifique des Corps Ottobah Cugoano – Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human SpeciesQuobna Ottobah Cugoano https://www.sjp.org.uk/whats-on/quobna-ottobah-cugoano/ 2023-08-21 SJP en-US (Sir) John Fenn (ed.) – The Paston Letters (Original letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III) John Hawkins – Life of Samuel Johnson 'Publius' (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay) – The Federalist papers (serial publication begins with Hamilton's "Federalist No. 1 – General Introduction" in The Independent Journal (New York City), October 27)Scott Kyle The Federalist Papers: A Reader's Guide Bloomsbury Press New York 2013 Scots Musical Museum, vol. 1 Mary Wollstonecraft – Thoughts on the Education of DaughtersMary Wollstonecraft Biography, Works, & Facts https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Wollstonecraft Encyclopedia Britannica 10 August 2019 en Births February 2 – Charles Etienne Boniface, French music teacher, playwright and journalist (died 1853) February 17 – George Mogridge ("Old Humphrey"), English children's writer and poet (died 1854) February 23 – Emma Willard, American teacher and writer (died 1870) March 7 – George Bethune English, American explorer and writer (died 1828) April 26 – Ludwig Uhland, German poet (died 1862)Uhland, Johann Ludwig May 29 – Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet, essayist and translator (died 1855) July 9 – Taliesin Williams, Welsh poet and author (died 1847)s-WILL-TAL-1787 Williams, Taliesin (Taliesin ab Iolo; 1787-1847), poet and author Griffith John Williams 1959 31 October 2021 September 13 – John Adamson, English antiquary and expert on Portuguese (died 1855) November 4 – Edmund Kean, English actor (died 1833) November 15 – Richard Henry Dana Sr., American poet, critic and lawyer (died 1879) November 21 – Bryan Procter, English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Barry Cornwall (died 1874)1 Procter, Bryan Waller 22 419-420 December 16 – Mary Russell Mitford, English novelist (died 1855) Mitford, Mary Russell 38 Lee Elizabeth Elizabeth Lee (writer) 84-86 1 Deaths April 1 – Floyer Sydenham, English classical scholar and translator (born 1710) April 2 – Francisco Javier Clavijero, Mexican-born historian (born 1731) May 4 – Philip Skelton, Irish clergyman and writer (born 1707)Skelton, Philip June 19 – John Brown, Scottish theologian (born 1722) October 28 – Johann Karl August Musäus, German satirist and children's writer (born 1735)Franz J. L. Thimm William Henry Farn The Literature of Germany, from Its Earliest Period to the Present Time, Historically Developed ... Edited by W. H. Farn https://books.google.com/books?id=nbBfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA59 1844 59 October 30 – Ferdinando Galiani, Italian economist (born 1728) November 3 – Robert Lowth, English poet, grammarian and bishop (born 1710)The Royal Kalendar, Or, Complete and Correct Annual Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the Year ... https://books.google.com/books?id=hH8UAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA3-PA65 1817 J. Debrett. 3 December 18 – Soame Jenyns, English poet and essayist (born 1704) References 30em External links 1787 Books at Goodreads