Literature year 1756

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Literature year 1756
Johann Erhard Kapp († 1756)	Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder : Portrait of Philippine Engelhard (* 1756)
Joshua Reynolds : Mrs. Frances Abington	César Chesneau Dumarsais († 1756)
Portrait of Mozart in the 1st edition of an attempt at a thorough violin school	Tobias Smollett , around 1770

Events

• During his time as pastor of Easton Maudit, Thomas Percy , who later became the bishop of the Irish Dromore , came across a medieval manuscript collection later named Percy Folio MS , which was later named after him and was recorded after oral lecture in Lancashire and Cheshire around 1650 . Since it was used in the house to fan the fireplace, parts were already missing. Binding the manuscript resulted in additional sections being lost. Among the 191 texts that have been preserved were medieval Arthus romances , poetry from the 16th and 17th centuries and street songs , as well as folk and knightly adventure stories and ballads about Robin Hood . Samuel Johnson and the poet William Shenstone encourage Percy to publish the texts that, after a first edition from 1765 ( Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Cosisting of old heroic Ballads, Songs and other Pieces of our earlier Poets (chiefly of the Lyric Kind), together with some few of later date , London), was not completed until 1867/68 after many years of editing by Percy and other editors. This, however, formed the basis for FJ Childs collection The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1882–1898).
• The English ornithologist and expert on natural history , Gilbert White , is the curator of Selborne , Hampshire appointed
• English actress Frances Abington joins the Drury Lane Theater Company.
• Giacomo Casanova managed to escape from the lead chambers of the Doge's Palace in Venice on the night of October 31st to November 1st . His story Histoire de ma fuite des prisons de la République de Venise (German: story of my escape from the prisons of the Republic of Venice ) appears in 1788 .

New releases

Joseph Marius von Babo, oil painting by Johann Georg Edlinger

William Godwin

Avram Mrazović

Carl Gustaf af Leopold

William Gifford

Christian Gottfried Körner (Portrait of Anton Graff )

Henry Raeburn : Elizabeth Hamilton, oil on canvas, 1812

Willem Bilderdijk

Karl Philipp Moritz, painting by Karl Franz Jacob Heinrich Schumann, 1791, Gleimhaus Halberstadt

Periodicals

• The Literary Magazine edited by Dr. Johnson appears monthly until 1758. Most of the magazine's book reviews, essays, and articles in which hepolemicsagainst English politics during the Seven Years' War were written by Johnson.

• The Critical Review , ed. by Tobias Smollett , published until 1817. Staff members of the review were u. a. Samuel Johnson , David Hume , John Hunter, and Oliver Goldsmith .

• Moskowskije Vedomosti (Russian Московские Ведомости; German “Moskauer Nachrichten”) appears in Moscow as the first non-state newspaper in the Russian Empire. The newspaper did not cease to appear until 1917 .

Fiction

• Anonymous - The Life and Memoirs of Mr. Ephraim Tristram Bates
• Thomas Amory - Life of John Buncle
• Vital d 'Audiguier - The memoirs of the Countess of Berci. Taken from the French by the author of the Female Quixote, Charlotte Lennox , in two volumes.
• Samuel Richardson (anonymous) - The Paths of Virtue Delineated , youth versions by Pamela , Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison

Non-fiction

• Thomas Birch - The History of the Royal Society of London vol. i
• 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
• 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
• Leopold Mozart - Attempt at a thorough violin school
• William Payne - An Introduction to the Game of Drafts
• Tobias Smollett - A Compendium of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages

• 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 Alexander Pope's Eloisa to Abelard )
• Jacob Duche , Pennsylvania: A Poem
• Salomon Gessner - Idyllen , Inkel and Yariko
• William Kenrick - Epistles to Lorenzo
• William Mason - Odes
• Edward Moore , Poems, Fables and Plays
• Christopher Pitt - Poems […] Together with The Jordan, “By the celebrated translator of Virgil's Aeneid”
• Christopher Smart - Hymn to the Supreme Being
  • - The Works of Horace
• Samuel Tilden , Tilden's Miscellaneous Poems, on Divers Occasions, Chiefly to Animate and Rouse the Soldiers
• Voltaire - Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne

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

Translations

• James Grieve translates De Medicina by Aulus Cornelius Celsus into English.

Born

• January 14 : Joseph Marius von Babo , German writer († 1822 )
• January 28 : Hans Adolph Friedrich von Eschstruth , German lawyer, poet and composer († 1792 )
• February 15 : Johann Friedrich Jünger , German comedy poet († 1792 )
• 0March 3 : William Godwin , English writer († 1836 )
• March 12 : Avram Mrazović , Serbian scientist, writer and school inspector
• 0April 3 : Carl Gustaf af Leopold , Swedish poet and writer († 1829 )
• 0April 6 : Karl Theodor von Traitteur , Palatinate-Bavarian court librarian and court historiographer, as well as book author and poet († 1830 )
• April 17 : William Gifford , English poet and translator († 1826 )
• 0May 1 : Johann Valentin Meidinger , German teacher of Italian and French and textbook author († 1822 )
• May 15 : Gottlieb Lebrecht Spohn , German educator, philologist and Protestant theologian († 1794 )
• 0June 8 : Ludwig von Baczko , German writer († 1823 )
• June 12 : Aloys Friedrich Wilhelm von Hillesheim , German Enlightenment journalist, economist and Illuminate († 1818 )
• 0July 2 : Christian Gottfried Körner , German writer and lawyer († 1831 )
• July 13 : Thomas Rowlandson , British cartoonist († 1827 )
• July 25 : Elizabeth Hamilton , British poet, writer and satirist († 1816 )
• 0September 7 : Willem Bilderdijk , Dutch lawyer and writer († 1831 )
• September 15 : Karl Philipp Moritz , Westphalian writer of the early Romantic period († 1793 )
• October 18 : Charlotte von Eine , German writer and muse of the Göttingen Hainbund († 1833 )
• October 21 : Philippine Engelhard , German poet († 1831 )
• November 11 : Francis Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater , British eccentric, writer and follower of natural theology († 1829 )
• November 13 : Christian Levin Sander , German-Danish poet and pedagogue († 1819 )
• November 18 : Thomas Burgess , English bishop, author and founder of the Royal Society of Literature († 1837 )
• November 23 : Christian Jacob Wagenseil , Bavarian writer, educator and publicist († 1839 )
• November 30th : Johann Pezzl , German-speaking writer and librarian († 1823 )
• undated: Edward Rushton , English poet, writer and bookseller († 1814 )

Died

• 0February 7th : Johann Erhard Kapp , German rhetorician and historian (* 1696 )
• February 25 : Eliza Haywood English writer, actress and publisher (* 1693 )
• March 26 : Gilbert West , English poet (* 1703 )
• March 30th : Stephen Duck , English poet (* around 1705)
• 0May 1st : Johann Christian Trömer , French-German dialect poet (* 1897 )
• May 22nd : David Mill , German oriental philologist and Reformed theologian (* 1892 )
• June 11 : César Chesneau Du Marsais , French philosopher, grammarian and rhetorician (* 1676 )
• June 18 : Benjamin Gottlieb Gerlach , German educator and author (* 1698 )
• July 17th : Johann Friedrich Starck , Prussian Lutheran theologian, pietistic author of edification (* 1680 )
• August 18 : Erdmann Neumeister , German poet and theologian (* 1671 )
• August 27 : Johann Gottfried Zeiske , German writer and pedagogue (* 1686 )
• December 16 : Johann Jakob Korn , German printer and publisher (* 1702 )
• December 29th : Thomas Cooke , English translator (* 1703 )
• undated: Thammathibet , poet and viceroy of the Kingdom of Ayutthaya (* in the 18th century)

Web links

Commons : Literary Works of 1756  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Austrian newspapers from 1756 in AustriaN Newspaper Online (ANNO) of the Austrian National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Uwe Böker : Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. In: Major works of English literature. Individual presentations and interpretations. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the End of the Victorian Age. Compiled by Henning Thies , Kindler Verlag , Munich 1995, ISBN 3-463-40271-8 , p. 443f.
2. ^ Reliques of Ancient English Poetry . Vol. III. Henry Washbourne & Co., London 1857 . On: books.google.co.uk. Accessed November 16, 2012.
3. ↑ Checkers or “The English Damespiel” ( memento of the original from June 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Michael Cox (Ed.): The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature , Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
5. ^ ^{A b} Richard M. Ludwig / Clifford A. Nault, Jr .: Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983 , 1986, New York: Oxford University Press 1986
6. ↑ Adolphus William Ward (et al. Ed.): The Cambridge history of English literature, Volume 10 , p. 491, New York: GP Putnam's & Sons (this edition; see also Cambridge, England: University Press) 1913, accessed via books. google.com. November 16, 2012
7. ↑ Walter Farquhar Hook: An ecclesiastical biography: containing the lives of ancient fathers and modern divines, interspersed with notices of heretics and schismatics, forming a brief history of the church in every age. FJ Rivington, London 1847, pp. 151f .
8. ↑ John Brown: Athelstane. A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theater Royal in Drury-Lane. London 1756. Retrieved from books.google.de on November 16, 2012.
9. ↑ Ian Ousby: The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York 1995, OCLC 27934869 .