1747 in literature

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The year 1747 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Births
5 Deaths

[edit] Events

The Battle of Lauffeldt, where the French defeat the English
Samuel Johnson begins work on his dictionary of the English language
David Garrick becomes one of the managers of Drury Lane Theatre

[edit] New books

William Blackstone - The Pantheon (attrib)
Thomas Carte - A General History of England
William Dunkin - Boetia
Thomas Edward - A Supplement to Mr. Warburton's Edition of Shakespear
Henry Fielding, as "John Trott Plaid" - The Jacobite's Journal (periodical)
Sarah Fielding - Familiar Letters Between the Principal Characters in David Simple (in defense against unauthorized continuations)
Samuel Foote - The Roman and English Comedy Consider'd
Philip Francis - A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace
Hannah Glasse - The Art of Cookery
Madame de Graffigny - Letters from a Peruvian Woman
Thomas Gray - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Henry Home, Lord Kames - Essays Upon Several Subjects Concerning British Antiquities
Samuel Johnson - The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language
Charlotte Lennox - Poems
George Lyttelton - Monody (poetry)
David Mallet - Amyntor and Theodora
William Mason - Musaeus: A monody to the memory of Pope (an imitation of Milton's Lycidas)
William Memoth, the younger - The Letters of Pliny the Consul
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Six Town Eclogues
Josiah Ralph - A Miscellany
Samuel Richardson - Clarissa vol. i - ii
William Shakespeare - The Works of Shakespear (edited by William Warburton)
Tobias Smollett - Reproof
Joseph Spence - Polymetis
Laurence Sterne - The Case of Elijah and the Widow of Zerephath
Voltaire - Zadig
Horace Walpole - A Letter to the Whigs
Joseph Warton - Ranelagh House
Thomas Warton - The Pleasures of Melancholy