1772 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1772.
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Events
- March – Gottfried August Bürger obtains a magistracy and is reconciled with his family.[1]
- May 7 – The Stadsschouwburg theatre in Amsterdam is destroyed by fire.
- June
- At Marseilles, the Marquis de Sade embarks on an orgy, as a result of which he is convicted in absentia of sodomy and poisoning and receives a death sentence; he escapes.
- Charles Burney tours Europe, researching for his History of Music.[2]
- September 12 – The Göttinger Hainbund of German poets is formed at a midnight ritual in an oaken grove.
- November 10 – The wife of poet Pedro Correia Garção obtains an order for his release from prison, the very day of his death.
- November 28 – Publication of the Bible in the Manx language is completed.[3]
- unknown dates
- Thomas Paine produces his first published work, a political article entitled Case of the Officers of Excise.[4]
- Hannah More arrives in London.
- An Armenian language press is set up in Chennai, India.
New books
Fiction
- Elizabeth Bonhôte – The Rambles of Mr Frankly, Published by his Sister
- Jacques Cazotte – Le Diable Amoureux
- Robert Fergusson – The Daft Days
- Sarah Scott – The Test of Filial Duty
- David Williams – Letter to David Garrick
Drama
- György Bessenyei – Ágis tragédiája
- Richard Cumberland – The Fashionable Lover
- Samuel Foote – The Nabob
- David Garrick – The Irish Widow
- Gotthold Lessing – Emilia Galotti
- Louis-Sébastien Mercier
- Le faux ami (The False Friend)
- Jean Hennuyer, évêque de Lisieux (written)
- Arthur Murphy – The Grecian Daughter
- Vicente Garcia de la Huerta – Raquel
Poetry
- Mark Akenside – Poems
- Thomas Chatterton – The Execution of Sir Charles Bawdin
- William Jones – Poems, Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick Languages
- William Kenrick – Love in the Suds
- William Mason – The English Garden
- Christopher Smart – Hymns, for the Amusement of Children
- George Alexander Stevens – Songs
Non-fiction
- Alphabetum grandonico-malabaricum sive samscrudonicum (with a preface by Giovanni Cristofano Amaduzzi)
- The Encyclopédie in 28 volumes by Diderot, d'Alembert, and many others
- Moses Browne – The Excellency of the Knowledge of Jesus Christ
- José Cadalso – Los eruditos a la violeta
- William Chambers – A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening
- Junius (possibly Philip Francis) – Junius: Stat Nominis Umbra
- Francis Grose – The Antiquities of England and Wales
- Johann Gottfried Herder – Abhandlung über den Ursprung der Sprache (Treatise on the Origin of Language)
- Richard Hurd – An Introduction to the Study of Prophecies...
- Carsten Niebuhr – Beschreibung von Arabien
- Joseph Priestley – The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours
- Francis Stoughton Sullivan (died 1766) – An Historical Treatise on the Feudal Law, and the Constitution and Laws of England
- Catherine Talbot – Essays on Various Subjects
- Wilhelm Abraham Teller – Wörterbuch des Neuen Testamentes zur Erklärung der christlichen Lehre (Dictionary of the New Testament for the Explanation of Christian Doctrine)
Births
- January 15 – James Ballantyne, Scottish editor and publisher (died 1833)
- March 10 – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, German poet, literary critic, philosopher and philologist (died 1829)
- April 11 – Manuel José Quintana, Spanish poet (died 1857)
- May 2 – Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg), German poet and philosopher (died 1801)
- August 29 – Sarah Burney, English novelist (died 1844)
- September 27 – Sándor Kisfaludy, Hungarian poet (died 1844)
- October 21 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (died 1834)
- November 17 – Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers, French dramatist (died 1827)
- November 28 – Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann, German classical commentator and philologist (died 1848)
- December 6
- John Carr, English travel writer and lawyer (died 1832)
- Henry Cary, Gibraltar-born Irish author, editor and translator (died 1844)
- unknown date – Maria Riddell, West Indies-born poet, naturalist and travel writer resident in Scotland (died 1808)[5]
- probable – Charlotte Dacre, English Gothic novelist (died 1825)[6]
Deaths
- March 26 – Charles Pinot Duclos, French novelist and encyclopedist (born 1704)
- March 29 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher (born 1688)
- May 22 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (born 1687)
- June – Thomas Whately, English politician and writer (born 1726)
- June 18 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German philosopher (born 1706)
- October 7 – John Woolman, American abolitionist author (smallpox, born 1720)[7]
- October 10 – William Wilkie, Scottish poet (ague, born 1721)[8]
- November 10 – Pedro Correia Garção, Portuguese poet (born 1724)
- unknown dates
- Thomas Hawkins, English editor and cleric (born 1729)
- Margareta Momma, Swedish editor and writer (born 1702)
References
- William Alfred Little (1974). Gottfried August Bürger. Twayne Publishers. ISBN 978-0-8057-2185-0.
- Roger H. Lonsdale (1965). Dr. Charles Burney: A Literary Biography. Clarendon Press.
- Wood, G. W. (1896). "An Account of the Translation and Editions of the Holy Scriptures in the Manx Language". The Manx Church Magazine. 6.
- J. C. D. Clark (2018). Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution. Oxford University Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-19-881699-7.
- Moira Ferguson (16 November 1995). Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: Nation, Class, and Gender. SUNY Press. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-7914-2512-1.
- Lucy Cogan (12 February 2016). Confessions of the Nun of St Omer: by Charlotte Dacre. Routledge. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-317-26694-5.
- Slaughter, Thomas P. (2008). The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition, New York: Hill and Wang, p. 378
- Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). . Dictionary of National Biography. 61. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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