1751 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1751.Events
Uncertain dates
Fiction
- John Cleland – Memoirs of a Coxcomb
- Francis Coventry – The History of Pompey the Little
- Henry Fielding – Amelia
- Eliza Haywood – The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
- Robert Paltock – The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man
- Tobias Smollett – The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
- Voltaire – Micromégas. Histoire philosophique
Drama
- David Mallet – Alfred
- Moses Mendes
- *Robin Hood
- *The Seasons
- Edward Moore – Gil Blas
Poetry
- Richard Owen Cambridge – The Scribleriad
- Thomas Cooke – An Ode on the Powers of Poetry
- Nathaniel Cotton – Visions in Verse
- Thomas Gray – Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- Soame Jenyns – The Modern Fine Lady
- Mary Leapor – Poems
Non-fiction
- John Arbuthnot – Miscellaneous Works
- Antoine Augustin Calmet – Traité sur les apparitions des esprits et sur les vampires ou les revenans de Hongrie, de Moravie, &c.
- Catharine Trotter Cockburn – The Works of Mrs. Catharine Cockburn
- John Gilbert Cooper – Cursory Remarks on Mr. Warburton's New Edition of Mr. Pope's Works
- Ignacio de Luzán – Memorias literarias de París
- Henry Fielding – An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers
- James Harris – Hermes, a philosophical inquiry concerning universal grammar
- Henry Home, Lord Kames – Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion
- David Hume – An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
- John Jortin – Remarks on Ecclesiastical History
- Alexander Pope – The Works of Alexander Pope
- Voltaire – The Age of Louis XIV
- John Wesley – Serious Thoughts upon the Perseverance of Saints
- Benjamin Whichcote – Works
Births
- January 23 – Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Baltic German writer
- January 31 – Priscilla Wakefield, English Quaker writer and philanthropist
- February 20 – Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet and translator
- October 9 – Pierre Louis de Lacretelle, French political writer
- October 20 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish dramatist and politician
- December 1 – Johan Henric Kellgren, Swedish poet and critic
Uncertain dates
- John Bowles, English political writer and lawyer
- Luciano Comella, Spanish dramatist
- Elisabetta Caminèr Turra, Venetian writer and translator
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