1783 in literature
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[edit] Events
- Friedrich Schiller leaves Stuttgart for Weimar to avoid persecution.
- William Cobbett arrives in London.
- August von Kotzebue is appointed to the high court of appeal in Reval.
[edit] New books
- Thomas Day - The History of Standford and Merton
- Ellenor Fenn (as "Mrs. Teachwell") - Cobwebs to Catch Flies
- Thomas Holcroft - The Family Picture
- Sophia Lee - The Recess
- Anna Maria Mackenzie - Burton-Wood
- Clara Reeve - The Two Mentors
[edit] New drama
- Frances Brooke - Roxina
- Hannah Cowley - Which is the Man?
[edit] Poetry
- Lady Anne Barnard - Auld Robin Gray (ballad) (published anonymously)
- William Blake - Poetical Sketches
- Jane Cave - Poems
- 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
[edit] Non-fiction
- James Beattie - Dissertations Moral and Critical
- William Beckford - Dreams, Waking Thughts 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)
- Ezra Stiles - The United States elevated to Glory and Honor
- Horace-Bénédict de Saussure - Essai sur l'hygrométrie
[edit] Births
- January 23 - Stendhal, novelist (d. 1842)
- April 3 - Washington Irving, short story writer (d. 1859)
[edit] Deaths
- January 2 - Johann Jakob Bodmer, journalist and critic (b. 1698)
- April 17 - Louise d'Epinay (b. 1726)
- September 6 - Anna Williams, poet and friend of Dr Johnson (b. 1706)
- October 10 - Henry Brooke, novelist, playwright, and poet (b. 1703)
- October 29 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician
- November 3 - Charles Collé, dramatist (b. 1709)
- November 23 - Ann Eliza Bleecker, poet and novelist (b. 1752)
