1763 in literature
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The following literary events and publications occurred in the year 1763.
Events
- January â Christopher Smart's asylum confinement ends at Mr Potter's asylum in London. (He was admitted to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in May 1757 and may have been confined before that; he was later moved to Potter's.) While confined, Smart has written A Song to David, published this year, and Jubilate Agno, not published until 1939.
- April 30 â A warrant is issued in Britain for the arrest of John Wilkes for seditious writings in The North Briton
- May 16 â James Boswell is introduced to Samuel Johnson at Thomas Davies's bookshop in Covent Garden, London.
- October 11 â The marriage of Henry Thrale and Hester Thrale takes place. Both later become close friends and companions of Dr Samuel Johnson.
- December 6 â John Wilkes brings a court action for trespass against Robert Wood, after the Lord Chief Justice rules that parliamentary privilege protects Wilkes from arrest for libel.[1]
- unknown dates
- Fedor Emin's Nepostoyannaya fortuna, the first Russian novel, is published.[2]
- The atheist English printer John Baskerville produces an edition of The Holy Bible for Cambridge University Press in his Baskerville typeface.
- probable â Chinese Qing dynasty scholar Sun Zhu compiles Three Hundred Tang Poems, an anthology of poems from the Chinese Tang dynasty (618â907).
New books
Prose
- Frances Brooke â The History of Lady Julia Mandeville
- James Grieve â English translation of Stepan Krasheninnikov's History of Kamtschatka
- Susannah Minifie and Margaret Minifie â The Histories of Lady Frances Sââ and Lady Caroline Sââ
- John Langhorne â The Letters that Passed Between Theodosius and Constantia
- Cao Xueqin â The Chronicles of the Stone
Drama
- Isaac Bickerstaffe â Love in a Village (opera)
- George Colman the Elder â The Deuce is in Him
- Nicolás Fernandez de MoratÃn â Lucrecia
- Samuel Foote
- The Mayor of Garrett
- The Trial of Samuel Foote, Esq. for a Libel on Peter Paragraph
- Mary Latter â The Siege of Jerusalem
- David Mallet â Elvira
- Arthur Murphy â The Citizen
- Frances Sheridan
Poetry
- Richard Bentley the Younger â Patriotism
- Charles Churchill
- The Author
- The Conference
- An Epistle to William Hogarth
- The Prophecy of Famine
- Poems
- John Collier â Tim Bobbin's Toy-shop
- George Keate â The Alps
- Robert Lloyd â The Death of Adam
- James Macpherson (as Ossian) â Temora
- William Mason â Elegies
- James Merrick â Poems
- Giuseppe Parini â Il giorno
- Christopher Smart â A Song to David
Non-fiction
- Almanach de Gotha (first issue)
- John Ash â Grammatical Institutes
- Thomas Bayes (died 1761) â An Essay Towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances
- Hugh Blair â A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian
- John Brown â A Dissertation on Poetry and Music
- Philip Doddridge â A Course of Lectures on the Principal Subjects in Pneumatology, Ethics, and Divinity
- Immanuel Kant â The Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of the Existence of God
- Antoine Simon Le Page Du Pratz â History of Louisiana; an English translation, in two volumes, of Histoire de la Louisiane, published in 1758
- Catharine Macaulay â The History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line
- Mary Wortley Montagu â Letters
- Robert Orme â A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan from the Year 1745
- William Williams Pantycelyn â Atteb Philo-Evangelius i Martha Philopur (Philo-Evangelius's Reply to Martha Philopur)
- Emanuel Swedenborg â Doctrine of Holy Scripture
- Henry Venn â The Complete Duty of Man
- Voltaire â Traité sur la tolérance
- William Warburton â The Doctrine of Grace
- John Wesley â A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation
Births
- January 15 â François-Joseph Talma, French actor (died 1826)
- January 29 â Johann Gottfried Seume, German travel writer (died 1810)
- March 9 â William Cobbett, English political and economic writer (died 1835)
- March 16 â Mary Berry, English dramatist and correspondent (died 1852)
- March 21 â Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter), German novelist (died 1825)
- May 9 â János Batsányi, Hungarian poet and anti-Habsburg activist (died 1845)
- June 15 â Kobayashi Issa, Japanese haiku poet (died 1828)
- July 30 â Samuel Rogers, English poet (died 1855)
- September 2 â Caroline Schelling (Caroline Michaelis), German literary critic (died 1809)
- October 10 â Xavier de Maistre, French soldier and writer (died 1852)
- December 6 â Mary Anne Burges, Scottish religious allegorist (died 1813)
- Unknown dates
- Huang Peilie, Chinese bibliophile (died 1825)[3]
- Shen Fu, Chinese chronicler (died c. 1825)
Deaths
- January 11 â Caspar Abel, German poet and theologian (born 1676)
- February 11 â William Shenstone, English poet (born 1714)
- February 12 â Pierre de Marivaux, French novelist and dramatist (born 1688)[4]
- May 3 â George Psalmanazar, French-born impostor and English writer (born c. 1679)
- June 29 â Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Swedish poet and salonnière (born 1718)
- September 26 â John Byrom, English poet (born 1692)
- December 23 â Antoine François Prévost (Abbé Prévost), French author (born 1697)
- Probable year of death â Cao Xueqin, Chinese novelist (born c. 1715)