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Template:Redirect category shell Template:Use British English This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1747.
Events
- March 31 – 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 – David Garrick becomes joint patentee and manager of the Drury Lane Theatre in London.[2]
- December 1 – 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 – The Załuski Library in Warsaw is opened to the public.[4]
New books
Prose
- William Blackstone (attributed) – The Pantheon
- Thomas Carte – A General History of England
- Juan de Iriarte – Discurso sobre la imperfección de los diccionarios[5]
- Diego de Torres Villarroel – Desengaños razonables para sacudir el polvo del espanto
- Denis Diderot – La Promenade du sceptique (completed; not published until 1830)[6]
- William Dunkin – Boetia
- Thomas Edward – A Supplement to Mr. Warburton's Edition of Shakespear
- Henry Fielding, as "John Trott Plaid" – The Jacobite's Journal (periodical)
- Sarah Fielding – Familiar Letters Between the Principal Characters in David Simple (a defense against unauthorized continuations)
- Samuel Foote – The Roman and English Comedy Consider'd[7]
- Hannah Glasse, as "A Lady" – The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy[8]
- Madame de Graffigny – Lettres d'une Péruvienne
- Henry Home, Lord Kames – Essays Upon Several Subjects Concerning British Antiquities
- Samuel Johnson – The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language
- David Mallet – Amyntor and Theodora
- William Memoth, the younger – The Letters of Pliny the Consul
- Josiah Ralph – A Miscellany
- Samuel Richardson – Clarissa vol. i–ii
- William Shakespeare – The Works of Shakespear (edited by William Warburton)
- Tobias Smollett – Reproof
- Joseph Spence – Polymetis[9]
- Voltaire – Zadig (in original form as Memnon)
- Horace Walpole – A Letter to the Whigs
- Joseph Warton – Ranelagh House
- Thomas Warton – The Pleasures of Melancholy
Drama
- John Cunningham – Love in a Mist
- Samuel Foote – The Diversions of the Morning or, A Dish of Chocolate[10]
- David Garrick – Miss in Her Teens
- Christian Fürchtegott Gellert – Die zärtlichen Schwestern (The Affectionate Sisters)[11]
- Carlo Goldoni – The Venetian Twins (I due gemelli veneziani)[12]
- Benjamin Hoadly – The Suspicious Husband[13]
- Edward Moore – The Foundling
- Takeda Izumo II, Miyoshi Shōraku and Namiki Senryū I – Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜, Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees, original version for bunraku puppet theatre)
Poetry
- Philip Francis – A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace
- Charlotte Lennox – Poems
- William Mason – Musaeus: A monody to the memory of Pope (an imitation of Milton's Lycidas)
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu – Six Town Eclogues
Births
- January 11 – François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, French economics writer (died 1827)
- January 12 – Susanna Blamire, English dialect poet and songwriter (died 1794)[14]
- January 15 – John Aikin, English biographer, activist and physician (died 1822)[15]
- January 26 – Samuel Parr, English schoolmaster and writer, "the Whig Johnson" (died 1825)[16]
- January – William Seward, English man of letters (died 1799)
- February 19 – John "Walking" Stewart, English traveller and philosopher (died 1822)
- March 10 – Iolo Morganwg, Welsh antiquarian, bookseller, poet and literary forger (died 1826)[17]
- September 30 – John Mastin, English memoirist, local historian and cleric (died 1829)
- December 12 – Anna Seward, English poet (died 1809)[18]
- Unknown date
- John Edwards (1747–1792), Welsh poet (died 1792)[19]
- Thomas Scott, English cleric and religious writer (died 1821)
Deaths
- January 16 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes German poet (born 1680)[20]
- May 28 – 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 – Michel Maittaire, French classical scholar, bibliographer and grammarian (born 1668)[24]
- November 17 – Alain-René Le Sage, French novelist and playwright (born 1668)[25]
- November 21 – Robert Mylne, Scottish antiquarian and writer (born 1643)[26]
- November 22 – Joseph Trapp, poet, controversialist and translator (born 1679)
- December 23 – Étienne-François Avisse, French dramatist (born 1694)[27]
References
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- ↑ James Sambrook: The life of the English poet Leonard Welsted (1688 – 1747) : the culture and politics of Britain's eighteenth-century literary wars, Lewiston [u.a.] : Edwin Mellen Press, 2014, Template:ISBN
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