1788 in literature

none August 2019 1788 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1788. Events right|thumb|alt=Black-and-white engraving of a half-length portrait of a man seated in a chair. He is wearing a dark colored jacket with a high collar and a white shirt. He has his hands clasped in front of him.|Joseph Johnson, co-founder of the Analytical Review (engraving by William Sharp after a painting by Moses Haughton) May – Joseph Johnson and Thomas Christie found the radical Analytical Review in London.Michael Henry Scrivener The Cosmopolitan Ideal in the Age of Revolution and Reaction, 1776-1832 https://books.google.com/books?id=OCyPAAAAMAAJ 2007 Pickering & Chatto 978-1-85196-833-6 224 May 10 – Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre (Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern) is founded. New books Fiction Bernardin de St. Pierre – Paul et Virginie Charlotte Turner Smith – Emmeline; or The Orphan of the Castle Mary Wollstonecraft – Mary: A FictionMary Wollstonecraft Biography, Works, & Facts https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Wollstonecraft Encyclopedia Britannica 10 August 2019 en Yuan Mei – What the Master Would Not DiscussFrancis Sing-chen Lydia "What Confucius Wouldn't Talk About": The Grotesque Body and Literati Identities in Yuan Mei's "Zi buyu" Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 2002 24 129–160 10.2307/823479 0161-9705 823479 Children Thomas Day – A History of Little Jack François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil – Alexis, ou la Maisonnette dans les bois (Alexis or the Little House in the Woods) Mary Wollstonecraft – Original Stories from Real Life, with Conversations Calculated to Regulate the Affections, and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness Drama Frances Brooke – Marian George Colman the Younger – Ways and Means Hannah Cowley – The Fate of Sparta Olympe de Gouges – Zamore et Mirza (published) Bertie Greatheed – The Regent Elizabeth Inchbald Animal Magnetism The Child of Nature John O'Keeffe Aladdin The Prisoner at Large Mariana Starke – The Sword of Peace Eglantine Wallace – The Ton Poetry 1788 in poetry Maria and Harriet Falconar Poems Poems on Slavery Samuel Jackson Pratt – Sympathy Non-fiction Anthony Benezet – Some Historical Account of Guinea Ralph Broome – Letters of Simkin the Second to his dear brother in Wales, containing a humble description of the trial of Warren Hastings, Esq. (further instalments up to 1791) Edward Gibbon – Volumes IV, V, and VI of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay – The Federalist Papers George Hepplewhite (attr.) – Cabinet Maker and Upholsterers Guide Immanuel Kant – Critique of Practical Reason (Kritik der praktischen Vernunft) Hannah More – Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society Richard Porson – Letters to Archdeacon Travis Thomas Scott – Commentary on the Whole Bible (beginning 174 weekly numbers) Births January 22 – George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (died 1824) February 28 – Samuel Bamford, English writer, poet and radical (died 1872) March 1 – Gheorghe Asachi, Moldavian polymath (died 1869) March 20 – Thomas Medwin, English poet, biographer and translator (died 1869) September 22 – Theodore Edward Hook, English man of letters and composer (died 1841) c. October 14 – Robert Millhouse, English weaver poet (died 1839) October 24 – Sarah Josepha Hale, American novelist and poet (died 1879) December 6 – Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby), English novelist, poet and cleric (died 1845) Deaths March 31 – Frances Vane, Viscountess Vane (Lady Fanny), English memoirist (born 1715) May 17 – Dorothea Biehl, Danish dramatist and translator (born 1731) July 21 – Gaetano Filangieri, Italian philosopher (born 1752) August 4 – Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir), priest and poet, 57https://biography.wales/article/s-EVAN-EVA-1731 Evans, Evan Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir 1731-1788), scholar, poet, and cleric Aneirin Lewis Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 21 August 2020 August 16 – Francisco Javier Alegre, Mexican historian and translator (born 1729) September 16 – Andrea Spagni, Italian theologian (born 1716) October 13 – Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (born 1709) References External links 1788 Books at Goodreads