1758 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1758.

List of years in literature (table)
In poetry
1755
1756
1757
1758
1759
1760
1761

Events

New books

Prose

Drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

  • William BlackstoneA Discourse on the Study of Law
  • John BrownAn Explanatory Defence of the Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times (see 1757)
  • Andrés Marcos BurrielPaleografía española
  • Elizabeth Carter (translator) – All the Works of Epictetus Which Are Now Extant
  • José Francisco de IslaHistoria del famoso predicador Fray Gerundio de Campazas, alias Zotes
  • Benjamin FranklinFather Abraham's Sermon
  • Oliver Goldsmith as "James Willington" – The Memoirs of a Protestant
  • William Hawkins – Tracts in Divinity
  • Claude Adrien HelvétiusDe l'Esprit
  • Henry Home – Historical Law-Tracts
  • Robert LowthThe Life of William of Wykeham
  • Thomas MarryatTherapeutics, or a New Practice of Physic
  • Antoine-Joseph Pernety
    • Dictionnaire mytho-hermétique, dans lequel on trouve les allégories fabuleuses des poètes, les métaphores, les énigmes et les termes barbares des philosophes hermétiques expliqués
    • Les Fables égyptiennes et grecques dévoilées et réduites au même principe, avec une explication des hiéroglyphes et de la guerre de Troye
  • Antoine Simon Le Page Du Pratz – Histoire de la Louisiane (History of Louisiana)
  • Richard PriceA Review of the Principal Questions and Difficulties in Morals
  • Emanuel Swedenborg
    • Earths in the Universe
    • Heaven and Hell
    • New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine
    • The Last Judgement
  • Jonathan SwiftThe History of the Last Four Years of the Queen
  • Horace WalpoleA Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England
  • Arthur Young – The Theatre of the Present War in North America

Births

Deaths

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References

  1. Michael Cardy (1982). The Literary Doctrines of Jean-François Marmontel. Voltaire Foundation at the Taylor Institution. pp. 3–6. ISBN 978-0-7294-0287-3.
  2. William McCarthy (2008). Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voice of the Enlightenment. JHU Press. p. 570. ISBN 978-0-8018-9016-1.
  3. Ian Davidson (9 December 2010). Voltaire: A Life. Profile Books. p. 351. ISBN 1-84765-224-7.
  4. Barker, Richard Hindry (1939) Mr Cibber of Drury Lane, New York: Columbia University Press. p193
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