1784 in literature

1784 in literature

Events

* The founding of the Methodist Church by John Wesley
* Gottlieb Jakob Planck becomes professor of theology at Göttingen

New books

* Thomas Astle - "The Origin and Progress of Writing"
* George Berkeley - "Works"
* Edmund Burke - "Speech on the East India Bill"
* Thomas Chatterton - "Supplement to the Miscellanies"
* James Cook - "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean"
* George Bubb Dodington - "Diary"
* William Godwin - "Sketches of History"
* Samuel Horsley - "Letters from the Archdeacon of St. Albans"
* Immanuel Kant - "What is Enlightenment?"
* William Mitford - "The History of Greece"
* Antoine de Rivarol - "Sur l'universalité de la langue française"
* Arthur Young - "Annals of Agriculture"

Poetry

* Anonymous - "Rolliad"
* Mary Alcock - "The Air Balloon"
* Richard Jago - "Poems"
* Anna Seward - "Louisa"
* Charlotte Smith - "Elegaic Sonnets"
* Helen Maria Williams - "An Ode on the Peace"
** - "Peru"

Fiction

* Anonymous - "Dangerous Connections" (transl. of "Les liaisons dangereuses")
* Robert Bage - "Barham Downs"
* Eliza Bromley - "Laura and Augustus: an Authentic Story"
* William Combe - "Original Love-letters"
* William Godwin - "Damon and Delia"
** - "Italian Letters"
* Thomas Holcroft - "Tales of the Castle"

New drama

* Hannah Cowley
**"A Bold Stroke for a Husband"
**"More Ways Than One"
* Richard Cumberland - "The Carmelite"
* Thomas Holcroft - "The Follies of the Day" (translation of Pierre Beaumarchais' " _fr. Le Mariage de Figaro")
* Elizabeth Inchbald - "Mogul Tale"
* Friedrich Schiller - "Intrigue and Love (Kabale und Liebe)"

Births

* January 31 - Bernard Barton, poet
* May 18 - William Tennant, Scottish poet
* November 17 - Julia Nyberg, Swedish poet
* "date unknown" - Antoine Ó Raifteiri, "last of the wandering bards"
* Leigh Hunt, one of the "Cockney School"

Deaths

* December 13 - Samuel Johnson
* Matthew Pilkington, clergyman, writer, and husband of Laetitia Pilkington
* Denis Diderot

Awards

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