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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1751.
Contents
Events
New books
Fiction
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
Deaths
References
Events
May 19
–
Demetrio
, an opera based on lyrics by court poet
Pietro Metastasio
, with music by
Davide Perez
, is performed at
Teatro San Samuele
in Venice. In the same year, in
Vienna
, Metastasio writes the poem,
Il rè pastore
, later used by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
to compose an
opera seria
.
[
1
]
June 28
– The first volume of
Denis Diderot
's
Encyclopédie
is published.
[
2
]
undated
The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy
by
Hannah Glasse
becomes the first formally published modern cookbook in English.
John Smith & Son
's bookshop is established in
Glasgow
. It will claim to be the oldest surviving bookseller in the English-speaking world.
[
3
]
New books
Fiction
John Cleland
–
Memoirs of a Coxcomb
Francis Coventry
–
The History of Pompey the Little
Henry Fielding
–
Amelia
(published December dated 1752)
Eliza Haywood
(anonymously) –
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
Robert Paltock
–
The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man
Tobias Smollett
–
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Voltaire
–
Micromégas
.
Histoire philosophique
Drama
David Mallet
–
Alfred
(masque)
Moses Mendes
Robin Hood
The Seasons
Edward Moore
–
Gil Blas
Poetry
Main article:
1751 in poetry
Richard Owen Cambridge
–
The Scribleriad
Thomas Cooke
–
An Ode on the Powers of Poetry
Nathaniel Cotton
–
Visions in Verse
Thomas Gray
(anonymously) –
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Soame Jenyns
–
The Modern Fine Lady
Mary Leapor
(died 1746) –
Poems
Non-fiction
John Arbuthnot
(died 1735) –
Miscellaneous Works
Antoine Augustin Calmet
–
Traité sur les apparitions des esprits et sur les vampires ou les revenans de Hongrie, de Moravie, &c.
[
4
]
Catharine Trotter Cockburn
(died 1749) –
The Works of Mrs. Catharine Cockburn
John Gilbert Cooper
–
Cursory Remarks on Mr. Warburton's New Edition of Mr. Pope's Works
Ignacio de Luzán
–
Memorias literarias de París
Denis Diderot
–
Encyclopédie
Henry Fielding
–
An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers
James Harris
–
Hermes, a philosophical inquiry concerning universal grammar
Henry Home, Lord Kames
–
Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion
David Hume
–
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
John Jortin
–
Remarks on Ecclesiastical History
Carl Linnaeus
–
Philosophia Botanica
Alexander Pope
(died 1744) –
The Works of Alexander Pope
(ed.
William Warburton
)
Voltaire
–
The Age of Louis XIV
John Wesley
–
Serious Thoughts upon the Perseverance of Saints
Benjamin Whichcote
(died 1683) –
Works
Births
January 23
–
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
, Baltic German writer (died
1792
)
[
5
]
January 31
–
Priscilla Wakefield
(née Bell), English Quaker writer and philanthropist (died
1832
)
February 20
–
Johann Heinrich Voss
, German poet and translator (died
1826
)
July 29
–
Elisabetta Caminèr Turra
, Venetian writer and translator (died
1796
)
October 9
–
Pierre Louis de Lacretelle
, French political writer (died
1824
)
October 30
–
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, Irish dramatist and politician (died
1816
)
December 1
–
Johan Henric Kellgren
, Swedish poet and critic (died
1795
)
[
6
]
unknown dates
John Bowles
, English political writer and lawyer (died
1819
)
Luciano Comella
, Spanish dramatist (died
1812
)
[
7
]
probable year
Helen Craik
, Scottish novelist and poet (died
1825
)
[
8
]
Mary Scott
, English poet (died
1793
)
Deaths
May 24
–
William Hamilton
, Scottish comic poet (born c. 1665)
October 26
–
Philip Doddridge
, English nonconformist leader, educator and hymn writer (born
1702
)
[
9
]
October 29
–
Bartholomew Green
, Boston printer (born
1701
)
December 12
–
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
, English political philosopher (born
1678
)
References
↑
Pietro Metastasio (15 July 2014).
Three Melodramas by Pietro Metastasio
. University Press of Kentucky. p.
5.
ISBN
978-0-8131-6387-1
.
↑
Peter Rickard (4 June 1981).
The Embarrassments of Irregularity: The French Language in the Eighteenth Century
. CUP Archive. p.
33.
ISBN
978-0-521-28445-5
.
↑
"JS Group is a forward looking business that can trace its roots back to 1751 when the bookseller John Smith and Son was founded in Glasgow"
. JS Group. 2014. Archived from
the original
on 2016-03-15
. Retrieved
2016-02-23
.
↑
Orešković, Luc (2010).
"Le thème des lycanthropes et des vampires, de Dom Calmet à l'abbé de Fortis
: une approche des pays de confins"
.
Dix-huitième siècle
.
42
(1):
265–
284.
doi
:
10.3917/dhs.042.0265
. Retrieved
18 March
2019
.
↑
Konzett, Matthias (2015).
Encyclopedia of German Literature
. Routledge. p.
1357.
ISBN
9781135941291
. Retrieved
24 March
2019
.
↑
Kellgren, Johan Henrik (1838).
Samlade skrifter
(in Swedish). N.M. Lindhs boktryckeri. p.
12
. Retrieved
24 March
2019
.
↑
Germán Bleiberg; Maureen Ihrie; Janet Pérez (1993).
Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula
. Greenwood Publishing Group. p.
422.
ISBN
978-0-313-28731-2
.
↑
Elizabeth L. Ewan; Sue Innes; Sian Reynolds; Rose Pipes, eds. (2007).
Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women
. Edinburgh University Press. p.
82.
ISBN
978-0-7486-2660-1
.
↑
Deacon, Malcolm (1980).
Philip Doddridge of Northampton
. Northampton:
Northamptonshire
Libraries.
ISBN
0-905391-07-1
.
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