1749 in literature
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The year 1749 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Oliver Goldsmith graduates from Trinity College, Dublin.
[edit] New books
- Joseph Ames - Typographical Antiquities
- George Berkeley - A Word to the Wise
- John Brown - On Liberty
- William Rufus Chetwood - A General History of the Stage
- John Cleland - The Case of the Unfortunate Bosavern Penlez
- John Gilbert Cooper - The Life of Socrates
- Henry Fielding
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- The True State of the Case of Bosavern Penlez (in reply to Cleland)
- Sarah Fielding
- The Governess
- Remarks on 'Clarissa'
- David Hartley - Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duty, and his Expectations (psychology)
- Eliza Haywood - Dalinda (novel)
- Aaron Hill - Gideon
- Samuel Johnson - The Vanity of Human Wishes
- William Law - The Spirit of Prayer
- William Mason - Isis
- Henry St. John - Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism
- John Wesley - A Plain Account of the People Called Methodists
- Gilbert West - Odes of Pindar
[edit] New drama
- Anonymous - Tittle Tattle (adaptation of Swift's Genteel and Ingenious Conversations)
- William Hawkins - Henry and Rosamund
- Aaron Hill - Meropé
- Samuel Johnson - Irene
- Moses Mendes - The Chaplet (musical, with music by William Boyce)
- Tobias Smollett - The Regicide
- James Thomson - Coriolanus
[edit] Poetry
- William Collins - Ode Occasion'd by the death of Mr. Thomson
- Thomas Cooke - An Ode on Beauty
- Henry Jones - Poems
[edit] Births
- January 13 : Friedrich Müller, painter, narrator, lyricist and dramatist, also known as "Maler Müller" (died 1825)
- May 4 - Charlotte Smith, poet and novelist (died 1806)
- August 28 : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (died 1832)
[edit] Deaths
- June 19 - Ambrose Philips, English poet (born 1675)
- September 10 - Emilie du Chatelet, French scientific writer, mistress of Voltaire and translator into French of Isaac Newton's Principia (born 1706)
- Samuel Boyse, poet and playwright
- Matthew Concanen, wit and poet
- Catherine Cockburn Trotter, playwright
