1756 in literature

See also: 1755 in literature, other events of 1756, 1757 in literature, list of years in literature.

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 2.1 Poetry 2.2 Fiction 3 New drama 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• The beginning of the Seven Years War.
• The Black Hole of Calcutta incident inspires renewed British efforts in India.
• Gilbert White becomes curate of Selborne, Hampshire.
• Tobias Smollett becomes editor of the Literary Review
• Frances Abington joins the Drury Lane theatre company

New books

• Corporate authorship - The Literary Magazine (periodical to 1758)
• Thomas Birch - The History of the Royal Society of London
• William Blackstone - An Analysis of the Laws of England
• Edmund Burke - A Vindication of Natural Society
• Alban Butler - The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints (frequently abridged and reprinted)
• Theophilus Cibber - Dissertations on Theatrical Subjects
• Johann Matthias Gesner - Primæ lineæ isagoges in eruditionem universalem
• Eliza Haywood as "Mira" - The Wife
• David Hume - The History of Great Britain vol. ii
• Tobias Smollett - A Compendium of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages
  • et al. - The Critical Review (periodical to 1790)
• Joseph Warton - An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope
• John Wesley - An Address to the Clergy

Poetry

• Isaac Bickerstaffe - Leucothoe
• Richard Owen Cambridge - An Elegy Written in an Empty Assembly Room (parody of Pope's Eloisa to Abelard)
• Thomas Cole - The Arbour
• William Kenrick - Epistles to Lorenzo
• William Mason - Odes
• Christopher Pitt - Poems
• Christopher Smart - Hymn to the Supreme Being
  • - The Works of Horace

Fiction

• Anonymous - The Life and Memoirs of Mr. Ephraim Tristram Bates
  • - The Paths of Virtue Delineated
• Thomas Amory - Life of John Buncle
• Charlotte Lennox - The Memoirs of the Countess of Berci

New drama

• Frances Brooke - Virginia
• John Brown -Athelstane
• Samuel Foote - The Englishman Return'd from Paris
• David Garrick - Catherine and Petruchio
  • - The Tempest (opera)
• John Home - Douglas

Births

• March 3 - William Godwin (died 1836)
• November 2 - Pierre Laromiguière, philosopher (died 1837)
• unknown date - Thomas Burgess (died 1837)
• (probable) - Mary Robinson (poet) (died 1800)
• Thomas Rowlandson
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Deaths

• February 25 - Eliza Haywood (born 1693)
• Thomas Cooke, first translator of Hesiod into English
• March 30 - April 2 - Stephen Duck, poet, of suicide
• Gilbert West

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