This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1783. Quick Facts List of years in literature (table) ... List of years in literature (table) … 1773 1774 1775 1776 1777 1778 1779 1780 1781 1782 1783 1784 1785 1786 1787 1788 1789 1790 1791 1792 1793 … In poetry 1780 1781 1782 1783 1784 1785 1786 Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Philosophy Science +... vte Close Events April 14 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's drama Nathan der Weise receives its first professional performance, in Berlin. May 6 – William Cobbett arrives in London to work, and later in the year joins the 54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot. September – Friedrich Schiller, having left Stuttgart for Weimar to avoid persecution, becomes resident dramatist at Mannheim.[1] November 18 – August von Kotzebue leaves St Petersburg to take up a position with the high court of appeal in Reval, then subject to the Russian Empire.[2] New books Fiction Rhijnvis Feith – Julia Thomas Holcroft – The Family Picture Sophia Lee – The Recess Johann Karl August Musäus – Volksmärchen der Deutschen (second volume) Clara Reeve – The Two Mentors Children Thomas Day (anonymously) – The History of Sandford and Merton (first of three story books)[3] Ellenor Fenn (as Mrs. Teachwell) – Cobwebs to Catch Flies Dorothy Kilner (as M. P.) – The Life and Perambulation of a Mouse Mary Ann Kilner A Course of Lectures for Sunday Evenings. Containing religious advice to young persons (as S. S.) The Adventures of a Pincushion Drama Vittorio Alfieri – Agamennone Frances Brooke – Roxina Hannah Cowley – Which is the Man? Richard Cumberland – The Mysterious Husband John O'Keeffe – The Poor Soldier William Jackson – The Metamorphosis Samuel Jackson Pratt – The School for Vanity Poetry Main article: 1783 in poetry Lady Anne Barnard – Auld Robin Gray (ballad) (published anonymously) William Blake – Poetical Sketches Judith Cowper – The Progress of Poetry George Crabbe – The Village Joseph Ritson – A Select Collection of English Songs John Wolcot (as Peter Pindar) – More Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians See also 1783 in poetry Non-fiction James Beattie – Dissertations Moral and Critical William Beckford – Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents Hugh Blair – Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres Edmund Burke – Letter on the Penal Laws Against Irish Catholics Adam Ferguson – History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic William Godwin – Life of Lord Chatham Immanuel Kant – Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science Vicesimus Knox – Elegant Extracts Mémoires secrets (anonymous) Moses Mendelssohn – Jerusalem Ezra Stiles – The United States elevated to Glory and Honor Horace-Bénédict de Saussure – Essai sur l'hygrométrie Births January 23 – Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), French novelist (died 1842)[4][5] April 3 – Washington Irving, American short story writer, essayist and politician (died 1859)[6] May 14 – Samuel Lee, English orientalist and linguist (died 1852)[7] September 23 – Jane Taylor, English poet and novelist (died 1824) December 10 – María Bibiana Benítez, Puerto Rican poet and playwright (died c. 1873)[8] Deaths January 2 – Johann Jakob Bodmer, Swiss journalist and critic writing in German (born 1698)[9] April 17 – Louise d'Epinay French writer and salon hostess (born 1726) September 6 – Anna Williams, Welsh-born poet (born 1706) October 10 – Henry Brooke, Irish novelist, playwright, and poet (born 1703) October 29 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician and philosopher (born 1717) November 3 – Charles Collé, French dramatist and songwriter (born 1709) November 23 – Ann Eliza Bleecker, American poet, novelist and letter writer (born 1752)[10] References [1][Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Biography. Accessed 12 February 2013.] [2]Patricia Anne Simpson; Birgit Tautz (18 May 2020). Goethe Yearbook 27. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 260–. ISBN 978-1-64014-061-5. [3]"The History of Sandford and Merton". Broadview Press. Archived from the original on 2012-02-15. Retrieved 2013-02-12. [4]Nemo, August (2020). Essential Novelists - Stendhal: modern consciousness of reality. Tacet Books. ISBN 978-3-96799-211-3. [5]"Literary Encyclopedia – Stendhal". litencyc.com. [6]"Washington Irving – American author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 3 January 2017. [7]Hamilton, Thomas (1892). "Lee, Samuel (1783-1852)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 32. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 378–9. [8]"María Bibiana Benítez". Encicopledia de Historía y Cultura del Caribe (in Spanish). En Caribe. Archived from the original on 2 November 2014. Retrieved 8 December 2018. [9]The Musical World. J. Alfredo Novello. 1878. p. 583. [10]Joel Munsell (1855). The annals of Albany. J. Munsell. p. 135. Wikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.