Literature year 1751
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
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Karl Otto Rechenberg , † 1751
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Johann Wilhelm von Berger , † 1751
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Denis Diderot. Painting by Louis-Michel van Loo (1707–1771)
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Events
- June: The first volume of the Encyclopédie , edited jointly by Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert , appears. It will be another 22 years before the epochal Enlightenment project is completed. Volume II appeared in January 1752, Volume III in November 1753, Volume IV October 1754, Volume V November 1755, Volume VI October 1756, Volume VII November 1757, Volume VIII to XVII from 1765 to January 1766 and in 1772 the last volume with the Plates or copperplate engravings. In the first version the work comprised 60,660 articles.
- In Vienna , the court poet Pietro Metastasio wrote the poem Il rè pastore , which would later serve Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as the basis for the composition of an opera seria : Il re pastore (1775).
- The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy by Hannah Glasse is formally the first modern cookbook .
New releases
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Johann Heinrich Voss, oil portrait by Georg Friedrich Adolph Schöner , 1797
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Fiction
- John Cleland - Memoirs of a Coxcomb
- Francis Coventry - The History of Pompey the Little; or, The Life and Adventures of a Lap Dog
- Henry Fielding - Amelia
- Eliza Haywood - The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
- Tobias Smollett - The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
drama
- David Mallet - Alfred (masque)
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Moses Mendes - Robin Hood
- - The Seasons
- Edward Moore - Gil Blas
- Voltaire - Le Duc d'Alençon ou les Frères ennemis (WP)
Poetry
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Johann Jakob Bodmer :
- The sound flood
- Noah
- Richard Owen Cambridge - The Scribleriad , in six volumes, published between January and March 1751.
- Thomas Cooke - An Ode on the Powers of Poetry , published anonymously.
- Nathaniel Cotton - Visions in Verse , published anonymously, a lyrical version of Gay's Fables ( 1727 )
- Salomon Gessner - a Swiss song to his armed girl
- Thomas Gray - Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard , published anonymously, then published as a literary sensation in a pamphlet on February 15, 1751 by Robert Dodsley , including a foreword by Horace Walpole (reprinted in Designes by Mr. R. Bentley ) ( 1753 ) and in Gray's Poems ( 1768 ); as an important work of the Graveyard Poets movement
- Soame Jenyns - The Modern Fine Lady
- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock - Messiah - Chants I – V
- Mary Leapor - Poems Upon several Occasions , edited by Samuel Richardson and Isaac Hawkins , published posthumously.
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - little things
- Moses Mendes - The Seasons
- Alexander Pope - The Works of Alexander Pope , edited by William Warburton , published posthumously
- Christoph Martin Wieland - Nature of Things , Alexandriner Verses in six volumes.
Non-fiction / science publications
- John Arbuthnot - Miscellaneous Works (posthumous)
- Ernst Bengel - Outline of the so-called Brethren Church, in which the doctrine and the whole thing are examined, good and bad are differentiated ...
- Thomas Birch - The life of Mr. Edmund Spenser
- John Gilbert Cooper - Cursory Remarks on Mr. Warburton's New Edition of Mr. Pope's Works
- Henry Fielding - An Inquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers
- James Harris - Hermes
- Henry Home Kames - Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion
- David Hume - An Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
- Pierre-Thomas-Nicolas Hurtaut - L'Art de péter
- John Jortin - Remarks on Ecclesiastical History
- Jean-Baptiste de Mirabaud - De l'âme et de son immortalité. ( Full text part 2 )
- Louis-Charles Fougeret de Monbron - La Fille de joie , French translation by John Cleland's Fanny Hill
- Alexander Pope - The Works of Alexander Pope (ed.William Warburton )
- Madeleine de Puisieux - Le Triomphe des dames
- Catharine Trotter Cockburn - The Works of Mrs. Catharine Cockburn
- Voltaire - le Siècle de Louis XIV
- John Wesley - Serious Thoughts upon the Perseverance of Saints
- Benjamin Whichcote - Works
Born
- January 23 : Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz , German writer of Sturm und Drang († 1792 )
- January 28 : Heinrich Würzer , German political publicist ("German Jacobin") († 1835 )
- January 31 : Priscilla Wakefield , English philanthropist, Quaker, writer and feminist († 1832 )
- February 15 : Johann Georg Friedrich Jacobi , German businessman, publisher, first lieutenant and customs officer († 1824 )
- February 20 : Johann Heinrich Voss , German poet and important translator of the epics Iliad and Homer's Odyssey as well as the Greek and Roman classics († 1826 )
- March 2 : Susanne von Bandemer , German writer († 1828 )
- May 14 : August Cornelius Stockmann , German lawyer and poet, professor at the University of Leipzig and imperial court palace councilor († 1821 )
- June 21 : Julie von Bechtolsheim , German poet and friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Christoph Martin Wieland († 1847 )
- August 2 : Lorenz Hübner , German Catholic educator, publicist and translator († 1807 )
- September 26 : Cornelis Willem de Rhoer , Dutch historian, rhetorician, philologist and legal scholar († 1821 )
- October 9 : Pierre-Louis de Lacretelle , French politician and writer († 1824 )
- October 30 : Richard Brinsley Sheridan , Irish playwright and politician († 1816 )
- November 2 : Théodore-Pierre Bertin , French translator and stenographer († 1819 )
- December 1 : Johan Henrik Kellgren , Swedish poet and man of letters and leading exponent of the Swedish Enlightenment († 1795 )
- December 11th : Christian Konrad Wilhelm von Dohm , German lawyer, Prussian diplomat and political and historical writer. As the author of the progressive work On the Civil Improvement of the Jews of 1781, he advocated European-wide Jewish emancipation in the interests of Enlightenment .
- December 22nd : August von Rode , German writer, civil servant and politician († 1837 )
- undated: Luciano Comella , Spanish playwright († 1812 )
- accepted: Mary Scott (poet) , English poet († 1793 )
Died
- March 21 : Johann Heinrich Zedler , Silesian bookseller and publisher in Leipzig (* 1706 )
- April 7th : Karl Otto Rechenberg , German jurist, poet and historian (* 1689 )
- April 27 : Johann Wilhelm von Berger , German philosopher, rhetorician and historian (* 1672 )
- May 24th : William Hamilton , Scottish poet (* 1665 )
- October 25 : Namiki Sōsuke , Japanese writer (* 1695 )
- October 26 : Philip Doddridge , English educator, activist and anthem writer. (* 1702 )
- October 29 : Bartholomew Green , printer from Boston (* 1701 )
- December 12th : Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke , English philosopher (* 1678 )
- undated: Christian Ehrenfried Charisius von Olthoff , Swedish government official, diplomat, postal director and theater writer (* 1691 )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frankwalt Möhren: The material bibliography of the Encyclopédie : Originals and pirated prints. In Dietrich Harth, Martin Raether (ed.): Denis Diderot or the ambivalence of the enlightenment. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1987, ISBN 3-88479-277-6 , pp. 63-89
- ↑ Silke Leopold: Il re pastore . In: Silke Leopold u. a., Mozart Handbook . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-7618-2021-6 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g Michael Cox (Ed.): The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature , Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6 .
- ^ Wilhelm Dilthey: The experience and the poetry: Lessing, Goethe, Novalis, Holderlin. Collected Writings XXVI. Tape. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, ND (3rd edition 2010) Göttingen 2005 p. 361.
- ↑ Calvin Thomas: A History of German Literature , New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, accessed July 26, 2012.
- ↑ Martin Brecht: The Württemberg Pietism. In: Friedhelm Ackva, Johannes von den Berg (ed.): History of Pietism: The Pietism in the eighteenth century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1995, pp. 225–295, here: p. 258.
- ^ Library of Congress record
- ↑ Renée Simon: Henri Boulainvilliers - Œuvres philosophiques , 1973, p. 235.
- ^ Textual criticism in the 18th century. JB Mirabaud's “Le Monde” (1751). In: Fritz Neubert: French literature problems. (Collected articles), Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1962, p. 137ff., Here p. 140.
- ↑ Malcolm Deacon: Philip Doddridge of Northampton . Northamptonshire Libraries, Northampton 1980, ISBN 0-905391-07-1 .
See also
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