1779 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1779.
Events
- April 6 â The premiÄre of Iphigenie auf Tauris by Johann Wolfgang Goethe is held at the private Ducal Palace in Weimar.[1]
- October 8 â William Blake enrols as a student with the Royal Academy of Arts at Somerset House in London.[2]
New books
Fiction
- Richard Graves â Columella
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi â Woldemar
- Ignacy Krasicki â Fables and Parables (Bajki i przypowieÅci)
- Nocturnal Revels
- Samuel Jackson Pratt as "Courtney Melmoth"
- Shenstone-Green
- The Tutor of Truth
- The Sorrows of Werther (anonymous translation of a Johann Wolfgang von Goethe work)
Children
- Joachim Heinrich Campe â Robinson der Jüngere (based on Defoe)
Drama
- Fanny Burney â The Witlings (unpublished)
- Hannah Cowley
- Richard Cumberland â Calypso
- Hugh Downman â Lucius Junius Brutus
- Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian â Les Deux Billets
- William Hodson â Zoraida
- Robert Jephson â The Law of Lombardy
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing â Nathan der Weise (published)
- Hannah More â The Fatal Falsehood
- Elizabeth Richardson â The Double Deception
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan â The Critic
Poetry
- William Cowper and John Newton â Olney Hymns
- Robert Fergusson â Poems
- William Hayley â Epistle to Admiral Keppel
- Ann Murry â Poems
- Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos â EpÃstola de Jovino a Anfriso, escrita desde el Paular
- Leandro Fernandez de MoratÃn â La toma de Granada por los Reyes Católicos don Fernando y doña Isabel
- Tomás de Iriarte â La música
Non-fiction
- John Abercrombie â The British Fruit Gardener and Art of Pruning
- Anna Barbauld â Lessons for Children
- James Burnett â Antient Metaphysics
- Edward Capell â Notes and Various Readings to Shakespeare
- George Chalmers â Political Annals of the Present United Colonies
- Edward Gibbon â A Vindication of Some Passages in the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- David Hume (died 1776; anonymously) â Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
- Samuel Johnson â Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets
- Vicessimus Knox â Essays
- Franz Mesmer â Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal
- John Moore â A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany
- Thomas Scott â The Force of Truth
- Horace Walpole â A Letter to the Editor of the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton
Births
- January 18 â Peter Mark Roget, English lexicographer (died 1869)
- March 1 â Gottfried Weber, German writer on music (died 1839)
- March 3 â Matthäus Casimir von Collin, Austrian poet and dramatist (died 1824)
- March 10 â Frances Trollope (born Frances Milton), English novelist and writer (died 1863)
- March 30 â Antoine à Raifteiri, Irish Gaelic poet (died 1835)
- May 2 â John Galt, Scottish novelist and entrepreneur (died 1839)[3]
- May 28 â Thomas Moore, Irish poet and songwriter (died 1852)
- August 1 â Francis Scott Key, American poet (died 1843)
- September 10 â Alexander Voeykov, Russian poet (died 1839)
- November 14 â Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish Romantic poet and dramatist (died 1850)
- December 22 â Thomas Gaisford, English classicist (died 1855)
- December 31 â Horace (Horatio) Smith, English poet and novelist (died 1849)[4]
Deaths
- January 20 â David Garrick, English dramatist, actor and impresario (born 1717)[5]
- March 4 â Heinrich Leopold Wagner, German dramatist (born 1747)
- June 7 â William Warburton, English writer, critic and cleric (born 1698)
- June 10 â William Kenrick, English novelist, playwright and satirist (born c. 1725)
- July 10 â Jane Gomeldon, English essayist and writer of maxims (born c. 1720)[6]
- July 21 â Caleb Fleming, English minister and pamphleteer (born 1698)[7]
- November 16 â Pehr Kalm, Swedish/Finnish botanist, naturalist and travel writer (born 1716)
- December 22 â István Küzmics (Å tevan KüzmiÄ), Hungarian writer in Prekmurje Slovene (Wendish) (born c. 1723)