1767 in literature
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See also: 1766 in literature, other events of 1767, 1768 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- The tax on tea and paper is imposed on the American colonies, leading to the Boston Tea Party.
- New Testament translated into Manx.
- Richard Price publishes his first volume of sermons.
[edit] New books
- John Byrom - The Universal English Short-hand
- William Duff - An Essay on Original Genius
- Richard Farmer - An Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare
- Adam Ferguson - An Essay on the History of Civil Society
- Paul Henry Thiry, Baron d'Holbach -Christianisme dévoilé
- Catherine Macaulay - Loose Remarks on Mr. Hobbes's Philosophical Rudiments of Government and Society (on Hobbes's 1651 work)
- Joseph Priestley - The History and Present State of Electricity
- William Warburton - Sermons and Discourses
- Arthur Young - The Farmer's Letters to the People of England
[edit] Poetry
- Francis Fawkes - Partridge-Shooting
- Oliver Goldsmith, ed. - The Beauties of English Poesy
- Richard Jago - Edge-Hill
- Henry Jones - Kew Garden
- Moses Mendes, ed. - A Collection of the Most Esteemed Pieces of Poetry
- William Mickle - The Concubine
- Christopher Smart, trans. - The Works of Horace, Translated into Verse
[edit] Fiction
- Anonymous - Belisarius
- James Boswell - Dorando
- Phebe Gibbes - The Woman of Fashion
- Susannah Minifie - Barford Abbey
- Frances Sheridan - Continuation of the Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph (posth)
- - The History of Nourjahad
- Laurence Sterne - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman vol. ix
- Arthur Young - The Adventures of Emmera
[edit] Newly published drama
- Richard Bentley - Philodamus
- Isaac Bickerstaffe - Lace in the City
- George Colman, the Elder - The English Merchant
- David Garrick - Cymon
- Hall Hartson - The Countess of Salisbury
- Arthur Murphy - The School for Guardians
[edit] Births
- January 1 : Maria Edgeworth (died 1849)
- October 25 : Benjamin Constant (died 1830)
- John Quincy Adams
- Andrew Jackson
[edit] Deaths
- July 15 : Michael Bruce (born 1746)
- December 22 : John Newbery, publisher (born 1713)
