1767 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1767.

Events

*January 29 – The former watchmaker and entrepreneur Pierre Beaumarchais has his first full-length drama, '' Eugénie'', premièred at the Comédie-Française. Revised in two days, it establishes his reputation in this field.
*February – King George III of Great Britain requests an introduction to Samuel Johnson from his librarian, Frederick Augusta Barnard. They meet in the library of the Queen's House.
*April 24 – First professional performance of a play by an American, ''The Prince of Parthia'' by Thomas Godfrey (died 1763), at the new Southwark Theatre in Philadelphia with Lewis Hallam Jr. in a leading rôle.
*December 7 – John Street Theatre (Manhattan), the first permanent theater in New York City, is opened by David Douglass with a performance of ''The Beaux' Stratagem''.
*Construction of Teatro Real Coliseo de Carlos III de Aranjuez, the first enclosed theatre in Spain, begins.
*Richard Price's volume of sermons, ''Four Dissertations'', is published by Andrew Millar and Thomas Cadell in London, and he joins the " Bowood circle", a group of liberal intellectuals around William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, at Bowood House in Wiltshire (England) and corresponds with Benjamin Franklin.
*Publication of the Epistles and Book of Revelation in Manx as ''Sceeuyn Paul yn Ostyl gys ny Romanee'' completes the first translation of the New Testament into that language.
*Publication of the first secular prose book in any of the Sorbian languages by Jurij Mjeń.

New books

Fiction

*James Boswell – ''Dorando''
*Phebe Gibbes – ''The Woman of Fashion''
* Hugh Kelly – '' Memoirs of a Magdalen''
* Susannah Minifie – ''Barford Abbey''
*Frances Sheridan
**''Continuation of the Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph'' (posthumous)
**''The History of Nourjahad''
*Laurence Sterne – ''The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'' vol. ix
*Unca Eliza Winkfield (pseudonym) – '' The Female American''
* Arthur Young – ''The Adventures of Emmera''

Drama

*Pierre Beaumarchais – '' Eugénie''
* Richard Bentley – ''Philodamus''
*Isaac Bickerstaffe – ''Lace in the City''
*George Colman the Elder
**''The English Merchant''
**''The Oxonian in Town''
* David Garrick – '' Cymon''
* Hall Hartson – '' The Countess of Salisbury''
*Thomas Hull – '' The Perplexities''
*William Kenrick – ''The Widowed Wife''
* Gotthold Ephraim Lessing – ''Minna von Barnhelm''
* Arthur Murphy – ''The School for Guardians''

Poetry

* Michael Bruce – ''Elegy Written in Spring''
*Francis Fawkes – ''Partridge-Shooting''
* Oliver Goldsmith, ed. – ''The Beauties of English Poesy''
* Richard Jago – ''Edge-Hill''
* Henry Jones – ''Kew Garden''
* Christopher Smart (translation) – ''The Works of Horace, Translated into Verse''

Non-fiction

*John Byrom – ''The Universal English Short-hand''
* William Duff – ''An Essay on Original Genius''
*Richard Farmer – ''An Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare''
*Adam Ferguson – ''An Essay on the History of Civil Society''
* Baron d'Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry – ''Christianisme dévoilé''
*Catharine Macaulay – ''Loose Remarks on Mr. Hobbes's Philosophical Rudiments of Government and Society'' (on Hobbes's 1651 work)
*Moses Mendelssohn – '' Phädon''
*Joseph Priestley – ''The History and Present State of Electricity''
*William Warburton – ''Sermons and Discourses''
* Arthur Young – ''The Farmer's Letters to the People of England''

Births

*January 1 – Maria Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish novelist (died 1849)
* February 4 – Andrew Marschalk, American printer (died 1838)
* February 6 – Saul Ascher, German political writer and translator (died 1822)
*March 1 – Alexander Balfour, Scottish novelist, short-story writer and poet (died 1829)
*April 9 – Joseph Fiévée, French journalist, essayist, novelist and dramatist (died 1839)
*April 24 – Dorothy Ripley, English missionary and reformist writer (died 1832)
*September 6 – Thomas Bayly Howell, English legal writer (died 1815)
*September 8 – August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet and translator (died 1845)
*September 10 – Melchiorre Gioia, Italian philosophical writer (died 1829)
*October 25 – Benjamin Constant, Swiss-French novelist (died 1830)
*November 26 ''(bapt.)'' – Elizabeth Bentley, English poet (died 1839)
*December 8 – Antoine Fabre d'Olivet, French poet and composer (died 1825)

Deaths

*February 16 – David Erskine Baker, English writer on drama and translator (born 1730)
* February 28 – Charles Balguy, English translator and medical writer (born 1708)
* April 27 – Johann Gottlob Carpzov, German Biblical scholar (born 1679)
*July 15 – Michael Bruce, Scottish poet and hymnist (born 1746)
*July 26 – Paul Gottlieb Werlhof, German poet and physician (born 1699)
* August 21 – Thomas Osborne, English publisher and bookseller (born 1704)
*September 11 – Theophilus Evans, Welsh historian and cleric (born 1693)
*October 1 – Léon Ménard, French historical writer and lawyer (born 1706)
*December 22 – John Newbery, English children's author and publisher (born 1713)

References

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