1757 in literature

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See also: 1756 in literature, other events of 1757, 1758 in literature, list of years in literature.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths

Events

• Jonathan Edwards becomes President of the institution that would later become Princeton University.
• Pierre-Augustin Caron changes his name to Beaumarchais.
• Robert Raikes becomes proprietor of the Gloucester Journal.
• Thomas Gray turns down the post of Poet Laureate of Great Britain.
• Thomas Warton is appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford

New books

• Madame Riccoboni - Lettres de Mistriss Fanny Butlerd

New drama

• Denis Diderot - Le Fils naturel
• John Home - Douglas

Poetry

• Thomas Gray - Odes
• William Wilkie - Epigoniad

Non-fiction

• Edmund Burke - A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
• David Hume - The Natural History of Religion
• Richard Price - Review of the Principal Questions in Morals

Joseph Warton - Essay on Pope

Births

• November 13 - Archibald Alison (Scottish author)
• November 18 - William Blake

Deaths

• March 1 - Edward Moore, dramatist
• unknown date - Colley Cibber, Poet Laureate