1747 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1747.
Events
- March 31 â Laurence Sterne preaches the Good Friday sermon at St Helen Stonegate; The Case of Elijah and the Widow of Zerephath is later printed and published.[1]
- April 9 â David Garrick becomes joint patentee and manager of the Drury Lane Theatre in London.[2]
- December 1 â Samuel Richardson's two-volume epistolary novel Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady ("by the Editor of Pamela") begins publication in London from his own print shop, dated 1748.[3]
- unknown date â The ZaÅuski Library in Warsaw is opened to the public.[4]
New books
Prose
- William Blackstone (attributed) â The Pantheon
- Thomas Carte â A General History of England
- Juan de Iriarte â Discurso sobre la imperfección de los diccionarios[5]
- Diego de Torres Villarroel â Desengaños razonables para sacudir el polvo del espanto
- Denis Diderot â La Promenade du sceptique (completed; not published until 1830)[6]
- William Dunkin â Boetia
- Thomas Edward â A Supplement to Mr. Warburton's Edition of Shakespear
- Henry Fielding, as "John Trott Plaid" â The Jacobite's Journal (periodical)
- Sarah Fielding â Familiar Letters Between the Principal Characters in David Simple (a defense against unauthorized continuations)
- Samuel Foote â The Roman and English Comedy Consider'd[7]
- Hannah Glasse, as "A Lady" â The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy[8]
- Madame de Graffigny â Lettres d'une Péruvienne
- Henry Home, Lord Kames â Essays Upon Several Subjects Concerning British Antiquities
- Samuel Johnson â The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language
- David Mallet â Amyntor and Theodora
- William Memoth, the younger â The Letters of Pliny the Consul
- Josiah Ralph â A Miscellany
- Samuel Richardson â Clarissa vol. iâii
- William Shakespeare â The Works of Shakespear (edited by William Warburton)
- Tobias Smollett â Reproof
- Joseph Spence â Polymetis[9]
- Voltaire â Zadig (in original form as Memnon)
- Horace Walpole â A Letter to the Whigs
- Joseph Warton â Ranelagh House
- Thomas Warton â The Pleasures of Melancholy
Drama
- John Cunningham â Love in a Mist
- Samuel Foote â The Diversions of the Morning or, A Dish of Chocolate[10]
- David Garrick â Miss in Her Teens
- Christian Fürchtegott Gellert â Die zärtlichen Schwestern (The Affectionate Sisters)[11]
- Carlo Goldoni â The Venetian Twins (I due gemelli veneziani)[12]
- Benjamin Hoadly â The Suspicious Husband[13]
- Edward Moore â The Foundling
- Takeda Izumo II, Miyoshi ShÅraku and Namiki SenryÅ« I â Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義çµåæ¬æ¡, Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees, original version for bunraku puppet theatre)
Poetry
- Philip Francis â A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace
- Charlotte Lennox â Poems
- William Mason â Musaeus: A monody to the memory of Pope (an imitation of Milton's Lycidas)
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu â Six Town Eclogues
Births
- January 11 â François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, French economics writer (died 1827)
- January 12 â Susanna Blamire, English dialect poet and songwriter (died 1794)[14]
- January 15 â John Aikin, English biographer, activist and physician (died 1822)[15]
- January 26 â Samuel Parr, English schoolmaster and writer, "the Whig Johnson" (died 1825)[16]
- January â William Seward, English man of letters (died 1799)
- February 19 â John "Walking" Stewart, English traveller and philosopher (died 1822)
- March 10 â Iolo Morganwg, Welsh antiquarian, bookseller, poet and literary forger (died 1826)[17]
- September 30 â John Mastin, English memoirist, local historian and cleric (died 1829)
- December 12 â Anna Seward, English poet (died 1809)[18]
- Unknown date
- John Edwards (1747â1792), Welsh poet (died 1792)[19]
- Thomas Scott, English cleric and religious writer (died 1821)
Deaths
- January 16 â Barthold Heinrich Brockes German poet (born 1680)[20]
- May 28 â Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, essayist (born 1715)[21]
- August
- Charles Fleetwood, manager of Drury Lane Theatre (year of birth unknown)[22]
- Leonard Welsted, English poet (born 1688)[23]
- September 7 â Michel Maittaire, French classical scholar, bibliographer and grammarian (born 1668)[24]
- November 17 â Alain-René Le Sage, French novelist and playwright (born 1668)[25]
- November 21 â Robert Mylne, Scottish antiquarian and writer (born 1643)[26]
- November 22 â Joseph Trapp, poet, controversialist and translator (born 1679)
- December 23 â Ãtienne-François Avisse, French dramatist (born 1694)[27]
