1772 in literature
Overview of the events of 1772 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1772 .
Events
New books
Fiction
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 15 – James Ballantyne , Scottish editor and publisher (died 1833 )March 10 – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel , German poet, literary critic, philosopher and philologist (died 1829 )April 11 – Manuel José Quintana , Spanish poet (died 1857 )May 2 – Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg), German poet and philosopher (died 1801 )August 29 – Sarah Burney , English novelist (died 1844 )September 27 – Sándor Kisfaludy , Hungarian poet (died 1844 )October 21 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge , English poet (died 1834 )November 17 – Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers , French dramatist (died 1827 )November 28 – Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann , German classical commentator and philologist (died 1848 )December 6
unknown date – Maria Riddell , West Indies-born poet, naturalist and travel writer resident in Scotland (died 1808 )[ 5] probable – Charlotte Dacre , English Gothic novelist (died 1825 )[ 6]
Deaths
March 26 – Charles Pinot Duclos , French novelist and encyclopedist (born 1704 )March 29 – Emanuel Swedenborg , Swedish philosopher (born 1688 )May 22 – Durastante Natalucci , Italian historian (born 1687 )June – Thomas Whately , English politician and writer (born 1726 )
June 18 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer , German philosopher (born 1706 )October 7 – John Woolman , American abolitionist author (smallpox, born 1720 )[ 7] October 10 – William Wilkie , Scottish poet (ague, born 1721 )[ 8] November 10 – Pedro Correia Garção , Portuguese poet (born 1724 )unknown dates
References
^ William Alfred Little (1974). Gottfried August Bürger ISBN 978-0-8057-2185-0 ^ Roger H. Lonsdale (1965). Dr. Charles Burney: A Literary Biography ^ Wood, G. W. (1896). "An Account of the Translation and Editions of the Holy Scriptures in the Manx Language" . The Manx Church Magazine . 6 . ^ J. C. D. Clark (2018). Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution ISBN 978-0-19-881699-7 ^ Moira Ferguson (16 November 1995). Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: Nation, Class, and Gender ISBN 978-0-7914-2512-1 ^ Lucy Cogan (12 February 2016). Confessions of the Nun of St Omer: by Charlotte Dacre ISBN 978-1-317-26694-5 ^ Slaughter, Thomas P. (2008). The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition, New York: Hill and Wang, p. 378
^ Lee, Sidney , ed. (1900). "Wilkie, William" Dictionary of National Biography