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1783 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of
1783
.
Events
April 14
âÂÂ
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
's drama
Nathan der Weise
receives its first professional performance, in
Berlin
.
May 6
âÂÂ
William Cobbett
arrives in London to work, and later in the year joins the
54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot
.
September âÂÂ
Friedrich Schiller
, having left Stuttgart for Weimar to avoid persecution, becomes resident dramatist at
Mannheim
.
November 18
âÂÂ
August von Kotzebue
leaves St Petersburg to take up a position with the high court of appeal in
Reval
, then subject to the
Russian Empire
.
New books
Fiction
Jozef Ignác Bajza
âÂÂ
René
Rhijnvis Feith
âÂÂ
Julia
Thomas Holcroft
âÂÂ
The Family Picture
Sophia Lee
âÂÂ
The Recess
Johann Karl August Musäus
âÂÂ
Volksmärchen der Deutschen
(second volume)
Clara Reeve
âÂÂ
The Two Mentors
Children
Thomas Day
(anonymously) âÂÂ
The History of Sandford and Merton
(first of three story books)
Ellenor Fenn
(as Mrs. Teachwell) âÂÂ
Cobwebs to Catch Flies
Dorothy Kilner
(as M. P.) âÂÂ
The Life and Perambulation of a Mouse
Mary Ann Kilner
A Course of Lectures for Sunday Evenings. Containing religious advice to young persons
(as S. S.)
The Adventures of a Pincushion
Drama
Vittorio Alfieri
âÂÂ
Agamennone
Frances Brooke
âÂÂ
Roxina
Hannah Cowley
âÂÂ
Which is the Man?
Richard Cumberland
âÂÂ
The Mysterious Husband
John O'Keeffe
âÂÂ
The Poor Soldier
William Jackson
âÂÂ
The Metamorphosis
Samuel Jackson Pratt
âÂÂ
The School for Vanity
Poetry
Lady Anne Barnard
âÂÂ
Auld Robin Gray
(ballad) (published anonymously)
William Blake
âÂÂ
Poetical Sketches
Judith Cowper
âÂÂ
The Progress of Poetry
George Crabbe
âÂÂ
The Village
Joseph Ritson
âÂÂ
A Select Collection of English Songs
John Wolcot
(as Peter Pindar) âÂÂ
More Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians
See also
1783 in poetry
Non-fiction
James Beattie
âÂÂ
Dissertations Moral and Critical
William Beckford
âÂÂ
Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents
Hugh Blair
âÂÂ
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
Edmund Burke
âÂÂ
Letter on the Penal Laws Against Irish Catholics
Adam Ferguson
âÂÂ
History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic
William Godwin
âÂÂ
Life of Lord Chatham
Immanuel Kant
âÂÂ
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science
Vicesimus Knox
âÂÂ
Elegant Extracts
Mémoires secrets
(anonymous)
Moses Mendelssohn
âÂÂ
Jerusalem
Ezra Stiles
âÂÂ
The United States elevated to Glory and Honor
Horace-Bénédict de Saussure
âÂÂ
Essai sur l'hygrométrie
Births
January 23
âÂÂ
Stendhal
(Marie-Henri Beyle), French novelist (died
1842
)
April 3
âÂÂ
Washington Irving
, American short story writer, essayist and politician (died
1859
)
May 14
âÂÂ
Samuel Lee
, English
orientalist
and linguist (died
1852
)
September 23
âÂÂ
Jane Taylor
, English poet and novelist (died
1824
)
December 10
âÂÂ
MarÃÂa Bibiana BenÃÂtez
, Puerto Rican poet and playwright (died c.
1873
)
Deaths
January 2
âÂÂ
Johann Jakob Bodmer
, Swiss journalist and critic writing in German (born
1698
)
April 17
âÂÂ
Louise d'Epinay
French writer and salon hostess (born
1726
)
September 6
âÂÂ
Anna Williams
, Welsh-born poet (born
1706
)
October 10
âÂÂ
Henry Brooke
, Irish novelist, playwright, and poet (born
1703
)
October 29
âÂÂ
Jean le Rond d'Alembert
, French mathematician and philosopher (born
1717
)
November 3
âÂÂ
Charles Collé
, French dramatist and songwriter (born
1709
)
November 23
âÂÂ
Ann Eliza Bleecker
, American poet, novelist and letter writer (born
1752
)
References