1781 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 3.1 Poetry 3.2 Non-fiction 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• Friedrich Schiller arrested after the first performance of his play, The Robbers

New books

• Anna Barbauld - Hymns in Prose for Children
• Robert Bage - Mount Henneth
• Christoph Friedrich Bretzner - Belmont und Constanze
• William Combe - Letters of an Italian Nun and an English Gentelman
• Benjamin Franklin - A Letter To A Royal Academy
• Charles Johnstone - The History of John Juniper
• Henry Mackenzie - Julia de Roubignei
• Glocester Ridley - Melanpus
• Anna Seward - Monody on Major Andre

New drama

• Miles Peter Andrews - Dissipation
• Frances Brooke - The Siege of Sinope
• John Delap - The Royal Supplicants
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Iphigenia in Tauris (revised version)
• Thomas Holcroft - Duplicity
• Elizabeth Inchbald – Polygamy
• Robert Jephson - The Count of Narbonne
• Samuel Jackson Pratt - The Fair Circassian
• Friedrich Schiller - Die Räuber (The Robbers)
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • A Trip to Scarborough
  • The Critic

Poetry

• William Cowper - Anti-Thelyphthora
• George Crabbe - The Library
• Santa Rita Durão - Caramuru
• Anne Francis - A Poetical Translation of the Song of Solomon
• Philip Freneau - The British Prison-Ship
• William Hayley - The Triumphs of Temper
• George Keate - Works
• Samuel Jackson Pratt - Sympathy

Non-fiction

• Edward Gibbon - Volumes II and III of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Henry Home - Loose Hints Upon Education
• Samuel Johnson
  • The Beauties of Johnson
  • Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
• Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason
• John Moore - A View of Society and Manners in Italy
• John Newton - Cardiphonia
• John Nichols - Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Essai sur l'origine des langues

Births

• January 26 - Ludwig Achim von Arnim, poet and novelist (d. 1831)
• January 30 - Adelbert von Chamisso, poet (d. 1838)
• February 26 - Peter Andresen Oelrichs, lexicographer
• March - Józef Zawadzki, publisher (d. 1838)
• March 17 - Ebenezer Elliott, poet (d. 1849)
• May 14 - Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer, historian (d. 1873)
• November 6 - Lucy Aikin, historical writer (d. 1864)
• December 6 - Charlotte von Ahlefeld, novelist (d. 1849)
• December 11 - David Brewster, scientist and writer (d. 1868)
• date unknown - Christian Isobel Johnstone, journalist and novelist (d. 1857)

Deaths

• February 15 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Enlightenment philosopher and dramatist (b. 1729)
• March 17 - Johannes Ewald, dramatist and poet (b. 1743)
• April 4 - Henry Thrale, friend of Samuel Johnson and husband of Hester Thrale (b. c. 1730)
• May 8 - Richard Jago, poet (b. 1715)
• June 24 - Anna Miller, poet and salon hostess (b. 1741)
• November 2 - José Francisco de Isla, satirist (b. 1703)
• November 4 - Johann Nikolaus Götz, poet (b. 1721)
• December 7 - Judith Madan, poet (b. 1702)

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