1782 in literature

none 1782 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1782. Events thumb|200px|Catherine Blake, c. 1805, depicted by her husband William Blake January 13 – Friedrich Schiller's first play, the revolutionary melodrama The Robbers (Die Räuber), causes a sensation in Mannheim at its first performance.Stephanie Barbé Hammer Schiller's Wound: The Theater of Trauma from Crisis to Commodity Detroit Wayne State University Press 2001 0814328628 32 Schiller, a military doctor at the time, is arrested for attending the performance without having permission to leave his regiment.http://studiocleo.com/librarie/schiller/biography.html Brief Biography 2013-08-23 August 18 – William Blake marries Catherine Boucher at St Mary's Church, Battersea.William Blake, Osbert Burdett, 1926, Parkstone Press International (reprint), p. 37 In the same year, he meets his future patron, John Flaxman. October 10 – Sarah Siddons makes a triumphant return to the Drury Lane Theatre in London, in the title role of David Garrick's adaptation of Thomas Southerne's Isabella, or, The Fatal Marriage. unknown dates Charles Dibdin becomes joint manager of the Royal Circus, afterwards known as the Surrey Theatre, in London.http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/surrey.htm The Surrey Theatre, Blackfriars Road, London 2013-02-12 The Complete Library of the Four Treasuries (Siku Quanshu) is completed, the largest literary compilation in China's history. The books are bound in 36,381 volumes with more than 79,000 chapters, containing about 2.3 million pages and 800 million Chinese characters. The bibliography omits some titles, which are included in the Annotated Bibliography of the Four Treasuries the following year.Chinese History: A Manual Wilkinson Endymion Endymion Wilkinson Harvard University Asia Center 2000 9780674002470 276 New books Fiction Elizabeth Blower – George Batemanhttp://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eighteenth_century_fiction/summary/v014/14.3-4.spadoni.html Carl Spadoni Collecting Eighteenth-Century English Novels in the Twenty-First Century Eighteenth-Century Fiction 14 2002 3–4 797–806 10.1353/ecf.2002.0027 162375254 2013-02-12 subscription Article 20. Fanny Burney (anonymously) – Cecilia J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur – Letters from an American Farmer Pierre Choderlos de Laclos – Les Liaisons dangereuses Lady Mary Hamilton – The Life of Mrs. Justman Johann Karl August Musäus – Volksmärchen der Deutschen (first volume) Betje Wolff and Aagje Deken – Historie van mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart Drama Vittorio Alfieri – Saul Hannah Cowley – The Belle's Stratagem Richard Cumberland – The Walloons Charles Nicolas Favart – Le Diable boiteux Denis Fonvizin – The Minor Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian – Le Bon Ménage Louis-Sébastien Mercier Le Déserteur (first performed) La Destruction de la ligue John O'Keeffe The Castle of Andalusia Harlequin Teague The Lord Mayor's Day Poetry 1782 in poetry William Cowper The Diverting History of John Gilpin Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk Poems John Freeth – Modern Songs Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – "Erlkönig" William Hayley – An Essay on Epic Poetry in Five Epistles to Mason William Mason An Archaeological Epistle to Jeremiah Milles.... King Stephen's Watch Hannah More – Sacred Dramas for Young Persons Edward Rushton – The Dismember'd Empire (attributed) John Scott – Poetical Works Helen Maria Williams – Edwin and Eltruda John Wolcot as "Peter Pindar" – Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians Non-fiction Thomas Day – Reflections upon the Present State of England, and the Independence of America William Gilpin – Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales Edmond Malone – Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (debunking Chatterton's hoax)James Edward Tobin Eighteenth Century English Literature and Its Cultural Background: A Bibliography Biblo and Tannen 1967 89 John Nichols – Biographical and Literary Anecdotes of William Bowyer Thomas Pennant – The Journey from Chester to Londons-PENN-THO-1726 Pennant, Thomas (1725-1798), naturalist, antiquary, traveller Ellis Davies 10 September 2023 Isaac Reed – Biographia Dramatica Joseph Ritson – Observations on the Three First Volumes of the History of English Poetry (on Thomas Warton) Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Confessions Reveries of a Solitary WalkerHyland Paul Gomez Olga Greensides Francesca The Enlightenment: A Sourcebook and Reader 2003 Psychology Press 9780415204484 117 https://books.google.com/books?id=PfoobriCsAUC&pg=PA117 23 March 2019 en J. Hector St. John – Letters from an American Farmer Louis Claude de Saint-Martin – Tableau naturel des rapports qui existent entre Dieu, l'homme, et l'univers Ignatius Sancho – Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African Thomas Spence – The History of Crusonia on Robinson Crusoe's Island Emanuel Swedenborg – Heaven and Hell (translated by Antoine-Joseph Pernety from Latin into French) Thomas Tyrwhitt – A Vindication of the Appendix to the Poems, called Rowley's Joseph Warton – An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope Thomas Warton – An Enquiry into the Authenticity of the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley Births January 30 – Ann Taylor, English poet and critic (died 1866) February – Georg Koës, Danish philologist (died 1811) March 2 – Isaac Pocock, English dramatist and painter (died 1835) April 16 – William Jerdan, Scottish journalist (died 1869) June 9 – Peter Fisher, Canadian historian (died 1848) September 7 – Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, Scottish novelist (died 1854) September 19 – Richard Lower, English dialect poet (died 1865) unknown dates Alexander Jamieson, Scottish textbook writer, schoolmaster and rhetorician (died 1850)Alexander Jamieson, celestial map maker (abstract), by Ian Ridpath. Grace Kennedy, Scottish novelist (died 1825) Benjamin Thorpe, English scholar of Anglo-Saxon (died 1870) Deaths January 1 – Juan Crespí, Mallorcan explorer and diarist (born 1721)January 2026 January 21 – Giovanni Cristofano Amaduzzi, Italian philologist (born 1740)AMADUZZI, Giovanni Cristofano Angelo Fabi 2 https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-cristofano-amaduzzi_(Dizionario-Biografico) January 29 – Johanna Charlotte Unzer, German writer (b. 1725)Alfred Anger: Johanne Charlotte Unzer Literatur-Lexikon Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh 1991 495–496 February 10 – Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theosopher (born 1702) February 14 – Thomas Newton, English Biblical commentator (born 1704)January 2026 April 12 – Pietro Metastasio, Italian poet (born 1698)Otto Erich Deutsch Mozart: A Documentary Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=e8AtwaddUW4C&pg=PA199 1 June 1966 Stanford University Press 978-0-8047-0233-1 199 December 27 – Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish philosopher (born 1696)Home, Henry 1 unknown date – Jean-Martin de Prades, French theologian (born c. 1720)Robert Roswell Palmer Catholics & Unbelievers in Eighteenth Century France https://books.google.com/books?id=9h81AQAAIAAJ 1961 Cooper Square Publishers 127 References 30em External links 1782 Books at Goodreads