| |||
|---|---|---|---|
|
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1783.
Events
- April 14 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's drama Nathan der Weise receives its first professional performance, in Berlin.
- May 6 – William Cobbett arrives in London to work, and later in the year joins the 54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot.
- September – Friedrich Schiller, having left Stuttgart for Weimar to avoid persecution, becomes resident dramatist at Mannheim.[1]
- November 18 – August von Kotzebue leaves St Petersburg to take up a position with the high court of appeal in Reval, then subject to the Russian Empire.[2]
New books
Fiction
- Rhijnvis Feith – Julia
- Thomas Holcroft – The Family Picture
- Sophia Lee – The Recess
- Clara Reeve – The Two Mentors
Children
- Thomas Day (anonymously) – The History of Sandford and Merton (first of three story books)[3]
- Ellenor Fenn (as Mrs. Teachwell) – Cobwebs to Catch Flies
- Dorothy Kilner (as M. P.) – The Life and Perambulation of a Mouse
- Mary Ann Kilner
- A Course of Lectures for Sunday Evenings. Containing religious advice to young persons
- (as S. S.) The Adventures of a Pincushion
Drama
- Vittorio Alfieri – Agamennone
- Frances Brooke – Roxina
- Hannah Cowley – Which is the Man?
- Richard Cumberland – The Mysterious Husband
- John O'Keeffe – The Poor Soldier
- William Jackson – The Metamorphosis
- Samuel Jackson Pratt – The School for Vanity
Poetry
- Lady Anne Barnard – Auld Robin Gray (ballad) (published anonymously)
- William Blake – Poetical Sketches
- Judith Cowper – The Progress of Poetry
- George Crabbe – The Village
- Joseph Ritson – A Select Collection of English Songs
- John Wolcot (as Peter Pindar) – More Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians
- See also 1783 in poetry
Non-fiction
- James Beattie – Dissertations Moral and Critical
- William Beckford – Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents
- Hugh Blair – Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
- Edmund Burke – Letter on the Penal Laws Against Irish Catholics
- Adam Ferguson – History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic
- William Godwin – Life of Lord Chatham
- Immanuel Kant – Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science
- Vicesimus Knox – Elegant Extracts
- Mémoires secrets (anonymous)
- Moses Mendelssohn – Jerusalem
- Ezra Stiles – The United States elevated to Glory and Honor
- Horace-Bénédict de Saussure – Essai sur l'hygrométrie
Births
- January 23 – Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), French novelist (died 1842)
- April 3 – Washington Irving, American short story writer, essayist and politician (died 1859)[4]
- May 14 – Samuel Lee, English orientalist and linguist (died 1852)
- September 23 – Jane Taylor, English poet and novelist (died 1824)
- December 10 – María Bibiana Benítez, Puerto Rican poet and playwright (died c. 1873)
Deaths
- January 2 – Johann Jakob Bodmer, Swiss journalist and critic writing in German (born 1698)[5]
- April 17 – Louise d'Epinay French writer and salon hostess (born 1726)
- September 6 – Anna Williams, Welsh-born poet (born 1706)
- October 10 – Henry Brooke, Irish novelist, playwright, and poet (born 1703)
- October 29 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician and philosopher (born 1717)
- November 3 – Charles Collé, French dramatist and songwriter (born 1709)
- November 23 – Ann Eliza Bleecker, American poet, novelist and letter writer (born 1752)[6]
References
- ^ [Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Biography. Accessed 12 February 2013.]
- ^ Patricia Anne Simpson; Birgit Tautz (18 May 2020). Goethe Yearbook 27. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 260–. ISBN 978-1-64014-061-5.
- ^ "The History of Sandford and Merton". Broadview Press. Archived from the original on 2012-02-15. Retrieved 2013-02-12.
- ^ "Washington Irving – American author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
- ^ The Musical World. J. Alfredo Novello. 1878. p. 583.
- ^ Joel Munsell (1855). The annals of Albany. J. Munsell. p. 135.