1764 in literature
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This article is a summary of literary events and publications during 1764.
Events
- King George III in The North Briton.[1]
- February – Samuel Johnson co-founds The Club, a literary dining club in London.
- June 21 – The Quebec Gazette newspaper begins publication; its successor survives.
- Santa Maria in Aracoeli on the Capitoline Hill, actually the site of the Temple of Juno.[3]
- October 29 – The Hartford Courant newspaper is founded in Connecticut.
- Gothic novel, is published by his Strawberry Hill Pressin England.
- unknown dates – The French scholar Jean-Jacques Barthélemy deciphers the Phoenician language using inscriptions on the Cippi of Melqart from Malta.
- literary salonsin Paris
New books
Fiction
- John Cleland – The Surprises of Love[4]
- Phebe Gibbes
- Susannah Minifie– Family Pictures
- George Psalmanazar (pseudonym) – Memoirs of ***, Commonly Known by the Name of George Psalamanazar
- James Ridley (as Sir Charles Morell) – The Tales of the Genii[7]
- Horace Walpole – The Castle of Otranto
Drama
- Samuel Foote – The Patron
- Antoine-Marin Lemierre – Idomne
- Arthur Murphy
- No One's Enemy But His Own
- What We Must All Come To
- Kane O'Hara – Midas
- Christopher Smart – Hannah
- Ramón de la Cruz – El petimetre
Poetry
- Charles Churchill
- The Candidate
- The Duellist
- The Farewell
- Gotham (book i)
- Independence
- The Times
- John Gilbert Cooper – Poems
- Oliver Goldsmith – The Traveller
- James Grainger – The Sugar-Cane
- Johann Georg Jacobi – Poetische Versuche
- Edward Jerningham – The Nun[8]
- George Keate – The Ruins of Netley Abbey
- Mary Latter – Liberty and Interest: a Burlesque Poem on the Present Times[9]
- William Mason – Poems
- William Williams Pantycelyn – Bywyd a Marwolaeth Theomemphus (in Welsh)
- Christopher Smart – A Poetical Translation of the Fables of Phaedrus
- Thomas Warton – The Oxford Sausage
Non-fiction
- David Erskine Baker – The Companion to the Play-house (dictionary of dramatists and plays)
- John Barrow – Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
- Cesare Beccaria (anonymous) – On Crimes and Punishments (Dei delitti e delle pene)
- Charles Bonnet – Contemplation de la nature
- Oliver Goldsmith – An History of England
- Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (posthumously) – The Life of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (concluded 1624)
- Immanuel Kant – Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (Beobachtungen über das Gefühl des Schönen und Erhabenen)
- Gottfried Leibniz (posthumous) – New Essays on Human Understanding(Nouveaux essais sur l'entendement humain) (completed 1704)
- John Newton (anonymous) – An Authentic Narrative of Some Remarkable And Interesting Particulars in the Life of ------ Communicated, in a Series of Letters, to the Reverend T. Haweiss (autobiography)
- Francisco Mariano Nipho – La nación española defendida de los insultos del Pensador y sus secuaces
- Anthony Purver – A New and Literal Translation of all the Books of the Old and New Testament (Bible)
- Thomas Reid – An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense
- William Shenstone (posthumous) – Works
- Voltaire
- Dictionnaire philosophique (Philosophical Dictionary)
- Commentaires sur Corneille
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann – Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (History of Ancient Art)
Births
- January 23 – Morris Birkbeck, American writer and social reformer (died 1825)
- March 6 – Catharina Heybeek, Dutch journalist, feminist and editor (died 1810)
- April 29 – Ann Hatton (Ann of Swansea), English novelist (died 1838)[11]
- May 7 – Therese Huber, German writer and scholar (died 1829)[12]
- June 19 – John Barrow, English writer, geographer and linguist (died 1848)[13]
- June 23 – Gabriel-Marie Legouvé, French poet and dramatist (died 1812)
- July 4 – Prokop František Šedivý, Czech playwright, actor, and translator (died c. 1810)
- July 9 – Ann Radcliffe, English Gothic novelist (died 1823)[14]
- August 18 – Judah Leib Ben-Ze'ev, Galician Jewish modern Hebrew philologist, lexicographer, Biblical scholar and poet (died 1811)
- October 19 – Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy, French dramatist (died 1846)
- November 1 – Frederick Reynolds, English dramatist (died 1841)
- December 3 – Mary Lamb, English miscellanist and co-author with brother Charles Lamb (died 1847)[15]
- unknown date – Sophie de Condorcet, French salonist and feminist (d. 1822)[16]
Deaths
- April 17 – Johann Mattheson, German writer, lexicographer and musician (born 1681)
- June 18 – Christmas Samuel, Welsh-language writer and Independent minister (born 1674)
- July 30 – Philipp Hafner, Austrian writer of farce (born 1735)
- September 23 – Robert Dodsley, English miscellanist and bookseller (born 1703)[17]
- October 23 – Pierre-Charles Roy, French poet and librettist (born 1683)
- November 1 – Agustín de Montiano y Luyando, Spanish dramatist (born 1697)
- November 4 – Charles Churchill, English poet and satirist (born 1731)
- December 15 – Robert Lloyd, English poet and satirist (born 1733)
- December 18 – Mattheus Pinna da Encarnaçao, Spanish Benedictine theologian (born 1687)
References
- ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Murray, John, ed. (1897). The Autobiographies of Edward Gibbon (2nd ed.). London: John Murray. p. 302.
- ^ Saunders, J. J. (1964). "Gibbon in Rome 1764". History Today. 14 (9): 608–15. Retrieved 2013-12-12.
- ISBN 978-0-8093-1406-5.
- ISBN 978-0-8093-1406-5.
- ^ Women & Literature. Transaction Periodicals Consortium. 1975. p. 38.
- ^ Sir Charles Morell (1766). The Tales of the Genii: Or, The Delightful Lessons of Horam, the Son of Asmar. J. Wilkie. p. 2.
- ^ "ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION". Accessed 2 January 2013
- ^ Orlando Project – Mary Latter. Accessed 2 January 2013
- ISBN 978-1-86487-026-8.
- ISBN 978-0-8093-0918-4.
- ISBN 978-0-8240-8547-6.
- ^ "Ulverston Borough Council biography. Retrieved 28 June 2020". Archived from the original on 29 June 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ISBN 978-0-7190-3829-7.
- ISBN 978-0-932062-63-5.
- ISBN 978-0-415-20448-4.
- ISBN 978-0-521-52208-3.