1777 in literature
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[edit] Events
- Fanny Burney is introduced to Samuel Johnson by her father
- Robert Lowth becomes Bishop of London
- First appearance of James Boswell's The Hypochondriak in the London Magazine
[edit] New books
- Frances Brooke - The Excursion
- Phoebe Gibbes - Modern Seduction
- Henry Mackenzie - Julia de Roubigne
- Samuel Jackson Pratt
- Charles and Charlotte
- (as "Courtney Melmoth") Travels for the Heart
- Clara Reeve
- The Champion of Virtue
- The Old English Baron
[edit] New drama
- Charles Dibdin - The Quaker
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Iphigenie auf Tauris
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan - The School for Scandal
[edit] Poetry
- Thomas Chatterton - Poems
- William Combe - The Diaboliad
- - The First of April
- Thomas Day - The Desolation of America
- William Dodd - Thoughts in Prison
- William Roscoe - Mount Pleasant
- Thomas Warton - Poems
- Paul Whitehead - Poems
[edit] Non-fiction
- Hugh Blair - Sermons
- Edmund Burke - Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol
- James Cook - A Voyage Toward the South Pole
- John Howard - The State of the Prisons in England and Wales
- David Hume - The Life of David Hume
- Hannah More - Essays
- Maurice Morgann - An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff
- Joseph Priestley
- Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit
- The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity Illustrated
- Isaac Reed - The Repository
- William Robertson - The History of America
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield - Characters
[edit] Births
- February 12 - Friedrich de la Motte Fouquet
- July 27 - Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet.
- William Henry Ireland, forger of Shakespeariana
[edit] Deaths
- October 21 - Samuel Foote, English dramatist
- Hugh Kelly, poet and dramatist
