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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1752.

Events

January 4 – The Paper War of 1752–1753 begins with the first issue of The Covent-Garden Journal , where Henry Fielding starts a long quarrel with John Hill by declaring war against hack writers .^[1] Tobias Smollett soon becomes involved, accusing Fielding of plagiarism.
February 29 – Thomas Sheridan introduces at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin a version of Shakespeare's Coriolanus that incorporates parts of the version by James Thomson, as Coriolanus, or The Roman Matron.^[2]
September 15 – At Williamsburg, Virginia, Lewis Hallam begins a North American tour with his brother William's company, with a production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice .^[3]
unknown date – The first of the Herculaneum papyri are discovered.^[4]

New books

Fiction

Charlotte Lennox – The Female Quixote ^[5]
Voltaire – Histoire du docteur Akakia et du natif de Saint-Malo

Drama

Samuel Foote – Taste

Poetry

Moses Browne – The Works and Rest of the Creation
John Byrom – Enthusiasm
Richard Owen Cambridge – A Dialogue Between a Member of Parliament and His Servant
Thomas Cooke – Pythagoras
William Mason – Elfrida
Christopher Smart – Poems

Non-fiction

George Ballard – Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain Who Have Been Celebrated for their Writing or Skill in the Learned Languages, Arts, and Sciences
George Berkeley – A Miscellany
Thomas Birch – The Life of John Tillotson
Francis Blackburne – A Serious Inquiry into the Use and Importance of External Religion
William Dodd – The Beauties of Shakespeare
Henry Fielding as "Sir Alexander Drawcansir" – The Covent-Garden Journal (periodical)
John Hawkesworth – The Adventurer (periodical)
David Hume – Political Discourses^[6]
William Law
- The Spirit of Love
- The Way to Divine Knowledge
Henry St. John – Letters on the Study and Use of History
José Francisco de Isla – Cartas de Juan de la Encina
Diego de Torres Villarroel – Obra`

Births

January 3 – Johannes von Müller, Swiss historian (died 1809)
February 17 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German dramatist and novelist (died 1831)^[7]
June 13 – Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (died 1840)
November 20 – Thomas Chatterton, English poet and forger of medieval poetry (died 1770)

Deaths

September 19 – Louis Fuzelier, French dramatist (born 1672)
September 22 – Péter Apor, Hungarian historian writing in Latin (born 1676)
October 24 – Christian Falster, Danish poet and philologist (born 1690)
November 2 – Johann Albrecht Bengel, German New Testament commentator (born 1687)
November 5 – Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (born 1670)
Unknown date – Li E (厲鶚), Chinese poet (born 1692)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger</span> German dramatist and novelist (1752–1831)

Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger was a German dramatist and novelist. His play Sturm und Drang (1776) gave its name to the Sturm und Drang artistic epoch. He was a childhood friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and is often closely associated with Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. Klinger worked as a playwright for the Seylersche Schauspiel-Gesellschaft for two years, but eventually left the Kingdom of Prussia to become a General in the Imperial Russian Army.

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References

↑ Poetical Works p. 443.
↑ John Ripley (1998). Coriolanus on Stage in England and America, 1609-1994. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 344. ISBN 978-0-8386-3741-8.
↑ Joshua R. LeHuray (27 May 2016). Virginians Will Dance or Die!: The Importance of Music in Pre-Revolutionary Williamsburg. McFarland. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-4766-6284-8.
↑ Kenneth Lapatin (16 July 2019). Buried by Vesuvius: The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum. Getty Publications. p. 124. ISBN 978-1-60606-592-1.
↑ Susan Carlile (1 January 2018). Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-1-4426-2623-2.
↑ Wennerlind, Carl (2005). "David Hume's Monetary Theory Revisited: Was He Really a Quantity Theorist and an Inflationist?". Journal of Political Economy. 113 (1): 223–237. doi:10.1086/426037. ISSN 0022-3808 . Retrieved 12 January 2022.
↑ Ayres, H.M. (1917). "Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger (1752–1831)". The Reader's Dictionary of Authors. New York: Warner Library Co. Retrieved 24 March 2019.

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[1] Poetical Works p. 443.

[2] John Ripley (1998). Coriolanus on Stage in England and America, 1609-1994. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 344. ISBN 978-0-8386-3741-8.

[3] Joshua R. LeHuray (27 May 2016). Virginians Will Dance or Die!: The Importance of Music in Pre-Revolutionary Williamsburg. McFarland. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-4766-6284-8.

[4] Kenneth Lapatin (16 July 2019). Buried by Vesuvius: The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum. Getty Publications. p. 124. ISBN 978-1-60606-592-1.

[5] Susan Carlile (1 January 2018). Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-1-4426-2623-2.

[6] Wennerlind, Carl (2005). "David Hume's Monetary Theory Revisited: Was He Really a Quantity Theorist and an Inflationist?". Journal of Political Economy. 113 (1): 223–237. doi:10.1086/426037. ISSN 0022-3808 . Retrieved 12 January 2022.

[7] Ayres, H.M. (1917). "Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger (1752–1831)". The Reader's Dictionary of Authors. New York: Warner Library Co. Retrieved 24 March 2019.

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