1761 in literature

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      This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1761.


      Events


      August – Following the death of Johann Matthias Gesner, the chair of rhetoric at the University of Göttingen is refused by both Johann August Ernesti and David Ruhnken. It eventually goes to Christian Gottlob Heyne.
      September – Carlo Goldoni informs fellow playwright Francesco Albergati Capacelli that he is moving permanently from Venice to Paris, where he is appointed director of the Italian theatre.
      unknown date – Denis Diderot begins writing Rameau's Nephew


      New books




      = Fiction

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      John Hawkesworth – Almoran and Hamet
      William Kenrick – Eloisa
      Thomas Percy (translated) – Hau Kou Choan
      James Ridley (as Sir Charles Morrell) – The History of James Lovegrove
      Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse
      Frances Sheridan – Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph
      Laurence Sterne – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman vols. iii – iv.


      = Drama

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      Isaac Bickerstaffe – Judith
      Henry Brooke – The Earl of Essex (adapted)
      George Colman the Elder – The Jealous Wife
      Richard Cumberland – The Banishment of Cicero
      Richard Glover – Medea
      Carlo Goldoni
      Una delle ultime sere di Carnevale
      La villeggiatura (or La trilogia della villeggiatura, The Resort)
      Carlo Gozzi
      L'amore delle tre melarance (The Love for Three Oranges)
      Il corvo (The Raven)
      Arthur Murphy
      All in the Wrong
      The Citizen
      The Old Maid


      = Poetry

      =

      John Armstrong – A Day: An epistle to John Wilkes
      Charles Churchill
      The Apology
      Night: An epistle to Robert Lloyd
      The Rosciad
      John Cleland – The Times!, vol. 2
      Francis Fawkes – Original Poems and Translations
      Robert Lloyd – An Epistle to Charles Churchill
      James Macpherson, "translator" – Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books, together with Several Other Poems composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language
      Diego de Torres Villarroel – Poesías sagradas y profanas


      = Non-fiction

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      Thomas Cole – Discourses on Luxury, Infidelity, and Enthusiasm
      George Colman the Elder – Critical Reflections on the Old English Dramatick Writers
      Robert Dodsley – Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists (anthology)
      Enrique Flórez – Memorias de las reinas católicas
      Edward Gibbon – Essai sur l’Étude de la Littérature
      Baron d'Holbach – Christianity unveiled
      Henry Home – Introduction to the Art of Thinking
      David Hume – The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Accession of Henry VII
      Joseph Priestley – The Rudiments of English Grammar
      Tiphaigne de la Roche – L'Empire des Zaziris sur les humains ou la Zazirocratie
      Martín Sarmiento – Noticia sobre la verdadera patria de Cervantes
      Benjamin Victor – History of the Theatres of London and Dublin vol. 1–2


      Births


      March 8 – Jan Potocki, Polish count, military engineer, ethnologist, Egyptologist, linguist, aeronaut, adventurer and novelist (suicide 1815)
      May 3 – August von Kotzebue, German dramatist (died 1819)
      July 25 – Charlotte von Kalb, German writer (died 1843)
      September 8 – François Juste Marie Raynouard, French dramatist (died 1836)
      September 13 – Santō Kyōden, born Iwase Samuru, Japanese fiction writer, poet and artist (died 1816)
      November 13 – Elizabeth Meeke, English popular novelist (died c.1826)
      Unknown dates
      Mary Pilkington, English novelist, poet and children's writer (died 1839)
      Mariana Starke, English playwright and travel writer (died 1838)


      Deaths


      February 25 – Daniel Henchman, Colonial American bookseller and publisher (born 1689)
      April 9 – William Law, English theologian (born 1686)
      April 15 – William Oldys, English antiquary and bibliographer (born 1696)
      April 17 – Benjamin Hoadly, English bishop and instigator of the Bangorian Controversy (born 1676)
      July 4 – Samuel Richardson, English novelist (born 1689)
      August 3 – Johann Matthias Gesner, German librarian and classicist (born 1691)
      December 15 – Henrietta Louisa Fermor, Countess of Pomfret, English letter writer (born 1698)


      References

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