1759 in literature
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[edit] Events
- Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie is formally suppressed by the French government.
- Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch becomes professor of rhetoric and poetry at the University of Jena.
- William Warburton becomes Bishop of Gloucester.
- The opening of the British Museum in January.
[edit] New books
- Sarah Fielding – The History of the Countess of Dellwyn
- Samuel Johnson – The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (on Wikisource).
- Gotthold Lessing – Fables
- William Rider – Candidus (a translation of Candide)
- Laurence Sterne – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman vols i–ii.
- Voltaire – Candide
[edit] New drama
- William Hawkins – Cymbeline (adapted from William Shakespeare)
- Arthur Murphy – The Orphan of China
- James Townley – High Life Below Stairs
[edit] Poetry
- Samuel Butler – The Genuine Remains (collected works)
- Edward Capell – Prolusions
- John Gilbert Cooper – Ver-Vert (transl.)
- William Mason – Caractacus
- Augustus Montague Toplady – Poems on Sacred Subjects
[edit] Non-fiction
- Edmund Burke – The Annual Register
- Alexander Gerard – An Essay on Taste
- Oliver Goldsmith – The Bee (periodical solely by Goldsmith)
- – An Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe
- David Hume – The History of England, Under the House of Tudor
- Richard Hurd – Moral and Political Dialogues
- Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon – The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon Written by Himself (autobiography)
- Mary Latter – Miscellaneous Works
- William Robertson – The History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James
- Adam Smith – Theory of Moral Sentiments
- Arthur Young – Reflections on the Present State of Affairs at Home and Abroad
- Edward Young – Conjectures on Original Composition
[edit] Births
- January 25 – Robert Burns, poet (died 1796)
- March 29 – Alexander Chalmers, journalist (died 1834)
- April 27 – Mary Wollstonecraft, feminist writer (died 1797)
- November 10 – Friedrich Schiller, poet and dramatist (died 1805)
- December 25 – Richard Porson, classical scholar (died 1808)
[edit] Deaths
- June 12 – William Collins, poet (born 1721)
- July 27 – Pierre Louis Maupertuis, philosopher (born 1698)
- August 6 – Eugene Aram, philologist (born 1704)
- August 24 – Ewald Christian von Kleist, poet (born 1715)
- September 5 – Lauritz de Thurah, architectural historian (born 1706)
- October 7 – Joseph Ames, bibliographer (born 1680)
- probable – Anton Wilhelm Amo, philosopher (born 1703)
