1774 in literature

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## Events

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* February 22 – The English legal case of Donaldson v Beckett is decided in the House of Lords, denying the continued existence of a perpetual common law copyright and holding that copyright is a creation of statute and can be limited in its duration.[1] This does permit authors to claim copyright on their own works.
* September 14 – A new Stadsschouwburg (municipal theatre) in Amsterdam opens with the première of Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken's tragedy Jacob Simonszoon de Ryk.[2]
* September 29 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's semi-autobiographical epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) (written January – March) is published anonymously in Leipzig, Germany; it is influential in the Sturm und Drang movement and Romanticism.
* unknown dates
* After the destruction of the Schloss Weimar by fire, Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, forms a commission for its reconstruction directed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.[3][4]
* James Lackington begins in the London bookselling business.
* Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider becomes secretary to Richard François Philippe Brunck.
* The National and University Library of Slovenia in Ljubljana is established as the Lyceum Library, from the remains of the dissolved Jesuit library and several monastery libraries.[5]
* Alberto Fortis publishes Viaggio in Dalmazia ("Journey to Dalmatia") and starts Morlachism.[6]

## New books

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### Fiction

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* Jeremy Bentham – The White Bull
* Henry Brooke – Juliet Grenville
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – The Sorrows of Young Werther
* Charles Johnstone – The History of Arsaces
* The Newgate Calendar
* Christoph Martin Wieland – Die Abderiten, eine sehr wahrscheinliche Geschichte (The Abderites: A Very Probable Story)

### Children

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* Johann Bernhard Basedow – Elementarwerk (first of four volumes)

### Drama

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* Miles Peter Andrews – The Election
* John Burgoyne – The Maid of the Oaks
* George Colman the Elder – The Man of Business
* Richard Cumberland
* The Choleric Man
* The Note of Hand
* Charles Dibdin – The Waterman
* Alexander Dow – Sethona
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Clavigo
* Hugh Kelly – The Romance of an Hour
* Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz – The Tutor (Der Hofmeister)
* Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos – El delincuente honrado

### Poetry

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Main article: 1774 in poetry

* James Beattie – The Minstrel, volume 2
* William Dunkin – Poetical Works
* Oliver Goldsmith – Retaliation
* Richard Graves – The Progress of Gallantry
* William Mason – An Heroic Postscript to the Public
* Hannah More – The Inflexible Captive
* Samuel Jackson Pratt (as Courtney Melmoth) – The Tears of A Genius, occasioned by the Death of Dr. Goldsmith
* Henry James Pye – Farringdon Hill
* Mary Scott – The Female Advocate
* Candido Maria Trigueros – El poeta filósofo o Poesías filosóficas en verso pentámetro[7]
* William Whitehead – Plays and Poems, by William Whitehead, Esq. Poet Laureat

### Non-fiction

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* Giacomo Casanova – Istoria delle turbolenze della Polonia
* Mary Deverell – Sermons
* Alberto Fortis – Viaggio in Dalmazia
* Martin Gerbert – De cantu et musica sacra
* Oliver Goldsmith
* The Grecian History
* An History of the Earth and Animated Nature
* Henry Home – Sketches of the History of Man
* John Hutchins (died 1773) – The History and Antiquities of Dorset
* Thomas Jefferson – A Summary View of the Rights of British America
* Samuel Johnson – The Patriot
* Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz – The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina (English translation of Histoire de la Louisiane (1758) in 1 vol.)
* Joseph Priestley – Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air
* William Richardson – A Philosophical Analysis and Illustration of Some of Shakespeare's Remarkable Characters
* Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes – Discurso sobre el fomento de la industria popular
* Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield – Letters to his Son
* Sugita Genpaku – Kaitai Shinsho (解体新書, "New Text on Anatomy", Japanese translation of Ontleedkundige Tafelen)
* Horace Walpole – A Description of Strawberry-Hill
* Thomas Warton – The History of English Poetry, volume 1
* John Wesley – Thoughts upon Slavery

## Births

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* January 1 – Pietro Giordani, Italian translator, scholar and writer (died 1848)
* February 24 – Archibald Constable, Scottish publisher (died 1827)
* July 14 – Francis Lathom, Dutch-born English Gothic novelist and dramatist (died 1832)
* August 12 – Robert Southey, English poet and Poet Laureate (died 1843)

## Deaths

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* April 4 – Oliver Goldsmith, Irish dramatist (born 1728/1730)
* April 28 – Gottfried Lengnich, German/Polish historian (born 1689)
* September 17 – Abraham Langford, English auctioneer and playwright (born 1711)
* October 16 – Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (head injury, born 1750)[8]
* unknown date – Catherine Michelle de Maisonneuve, French editor and writer

## References

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1. ^ 2 Brown's Parl. Cases 129, 1 Eng. Rep. 837; 4 Burr. 2408, 98 Eng. Rep. 257; 17 Cobbett's Parl. Hist. 953 (1813).
2. ^ te Winkel, Jan (1924). De ontwikkelingsgang der Nederlandsche letterkunde V, Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche letterkunde van de Republiek der Vereenigde Nederlanden (in Dutch). Vol. 3 (2 ed.). Haarlem: Héritiers F. Bohn. p. 401.
3. ^ "Das Stadtschloss Weimar/The Palace at Weimar" (PDF). Klassik Stiftung Weimar. 2010. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
4. ^ Martin Geck (2003). Bach. Haus Publishing. p. 25\. ISBN 978-1-904341-16-1.
5. ^ Miriam Drake (20 May 2003). Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Second Edition -. CRC Press. p. 2073\. ISBN 978-0-8247-2079-7.
6. ^ Milić Brett, Branislava (2014). Imagining the Morlacchi in Fortis and Goldoni (PhD). University of Alberta. pp. 1–213\. doi:10.7939/R3MM45.
7. ^ Cándido María Trigueros (1774). El poeta filosofo; o poesias filosoficas en verso pentametro. En la Imprenta de Don Manuel Nicolàs Vazquez, y Compañia.
8. ^ BBC Two: Writing Scotland.

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