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1783 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1783.

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Events

  • April 14 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's drama Nathan der Weise receives its first professional performance, in Berlin.
  • September – Friedrich Schiller, having left Stuttgart for Weimar to avoid persecution, becomes resident dramatist at Mannheim.
  • William Cobbett arrives in London.
  • August von Kotzebue is appointed to the high court of appeal in Reval.

    • Fiction

  • Rhijnvis Feith – Julia
  • Thomas Holcroft – The Family Picture
  • Sophia Lee – The Recess
  • Anna Maria Mackenzie – Burton-Wood
  • Clara Reeve – The Two Mentors

    • Children

  • Thomas Day (anonymously) – The History of Sandford and Merton (first of three story books)
  • Ellenor Fenn (as Mrs. Teachwell) – Cobwebs to Catch Flies
  • Dorothy Kilner (as M. P.) – 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 – Agamennone
  • Frances Brooke – Roxina
  • Hannah Cowley – Which is the Man?
  • Richard Cumberland – The Mysterious Husband
  • John O'Keeffe – The Poor Soldier

    • Poetry

  • Lady Anne Barnard – Auld Robin Gray (ballad) (published anonymously)
  • William Blake – Poetical Sketches
  • Jane Cave Winscom – Poems
  • Judith Cowper – The Progress of Poetry
  • George Crabbe – The Village
  • Joseph Ritson – A Select Collection of English Songs
  • John Wolcot as "Peter Pindar" – More Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians
    • See also 1783 in poetry

    Non-fiction

  • James Beattie – Dissertations Moral and Critical
  • William Beckford – Dreams, Waking Thughts and Incidents
  • Hugh Blair – Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
  • Edmund Burke – Letter on the Penal Laws Against Irish Catholics
  • Adam Ferguson – History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic
  • William Godwin – Life of Lord Chatham
  • Immanuel Kant – Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science
  • Vicesimus Knox – Elegant Extracts
  • Mémoires secrets (anonymous)
  • Moses Mendelssohn – Jerusalem
  • Ezra Stiles – The United States elevated to Glory and Honor
  • Horace-Bénédict de Saussure – Essai sur l'hygrométrie

    • Births

  • January 23 – Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), French novelist (died 1842)
  • April 3 – Washington Irving, American short story writer, essayist and politician (died 1859)
  • May 14 – Samuel Lee, English orientalist and linguist (died 1852)
  • September 23 – Jane Taylor, English poet and novelist (died 1824)

    • Deaths

  • January 2 – Johann Jakob Bodmer, Swiss journalist and critic writing in German (born 1698)
  • April 17 – Louise d'Epinay French writer and salon hostess (born 1726)
  • September 6 – Anna Williams, Welsh-born poet (born 1706)
  • October 10 – Henry Brooke, Irish novelist, playwright, and poet (born 1703)
  • October 29 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician and philosopher (born 1717)
  • November 3 – Charles Collé, French dramatist and songwriter (born 1709)
  • November 23 – Ann Eliza Bleecker, American poet, novelist and letter writer (born 1752)

    • References

    1783 in literature Wikipedia
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