1782 in literature

1782 in literature

Events

* The Spanish take Minorca.
* In the American Revolution, the Battle of the Saints results in a British victory for the battle.
* William Blake first meets his patron, John Flaxman.

New books

* Elizabeth Blower - "George Bateman"
* Fanny Burney - "Cecilia"
* J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur - "Letters from an American Farmer"
* Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - "Les liaisons dangereuses"
* Betje Wolff - "Historie van mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart"

New drama

* Hannah Cowley - "The Belle's Stratagem"
* Denis Fonvizin - "The Minor"

Poetry

*William Cowper
**"The Diverting History of John Gilpin"
**"Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk"
**"Poems"
* "John Freeth] - "Modern Songs"
* William Hayley - "An Essay on Epic Poetry in Five Epistles to Mason"
* William Mason
**"An Archaeological Epistle to Jeremiah Milles...."
**"King Stephen's Watch"
* Hannah More - "Sacred Dramas for Young Persons"
* Edward Rushton - "The Dismember'd Empire" (attrib.)
* John Scott - "Poetical Works"
* Helen Maria Williams - "Edwin and Eltruda"
* John Wolcot as "Peter Pindar" - "Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians"

Non-fiction

* Thomas Day - "Reflections upon the Present State of England, and the Independence of America"
* William Gilpin - "Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales"
* Edmund Malone - "Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley" (debunking Chatterton's hoax)
* John Nichols - "Biographical and Literary Anecdotes of William Bowyer"
* Thomas Pennant - "The Journey from Chester to London"
* Isaac Reed - "Biographia Dramatica"
* Joseph Ritson - "Observations on the First Three Volumes of the History of English Poetry" (on Thomas Warton)
* Jean-Jacques Rousseau - "The Confessions"
* Ignatius Sancho - "Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African"
* Thomas Spence - "The History of Crusonia on Robinson Crusoe's Island"
* Thomas Tyrwhitt - "A Vindication of the Appendix to the Poems, called Rowley's"
* Joseph Warton - "An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope"
* Thomas Warton - "An Enquiry into the Authenticity of the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley"

Births

*April 16 - William Jerdan, journalist
*"unknown date" - Charlotte Dacre, English author

Deaths

*April 12 - Metastasio, Italian poet
*December 27 - Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish philosopher


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