1746 in literature
Overview of the events of 1746 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1746.
Events
New books
Prose
Drama
Poetry
Births
January 12 – Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi , Swiss educational reformer (died 1827 )
January 25 – Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis , French writer, harpist, educator (died 1830 )
March 27 – Michael Bruce , Scottish poet (died 1767 )
April 3 – Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville , French fantasy novelist (died 1805 )
May 3 – Radu Golescu , Wallachian statesman and literary sponsor (died 1818 )
December 21 – José de la Cruz (Huseng Sisiw), Filipino writer (died 1829 )
unknown date – Victor d'Hupay , French philosopher (died 1818 )
Deaths
References
^ In Britain, Voltaire's speech is quoted in The Gentleman's Magazine in July and the full text is translated into English in Dodsley's Museum for December 20. Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce (1971). Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660–1830) . Franklin, Burt. pp. 40, 43. ISBN 978-0-8337-4046-5 . Retrieved 2010-02-13 .
^ John Hawkins (1787). The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. J. Buckland. p. 345.
^ The ballad, related orally for a century, is first printed in Josiah Gilbert Holland 's History of Western Massachusetts in 1855 . Burt, Daniel S. (2004). The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7 .
^ Kavanagh, Thomas M. (2001). "Coupling the Novel: Reading Bodies in La Morlière's Angola ". Eighteenth-Century Fiction . 13 (2– 3): 389– 414. doi :10.1353/ecf.2001.0018 . S2CID 162335040 .
^ Shōriya, Aragorō. "Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami ." Kabuki21.com . Accessed 4 December 2008.
^ Schrödter, Willy (2003). Abenteuer mit Gedanken: Mächte und Gewalten in uns (in German). Reichl Verlag. p. 18. ISBN 978-3-87667-249-6 .
^ Halbertsma, R. B. (2003). Scholars, Travellers, and Trade . Routledge. pp. 11– 14.