This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1752.
Events
January 4 – The Paper War of 1752–1753 begins with the first issue of The Covent-Garden Journal, where Henry Fielding starts a long quarrel with John Hill by declaring war against hack writers.Poetical Works p. 443. Tobias Smollett soon becomes involved, accusing Fielding of plagiarism. February 29 – Thomas Sheridan introduces at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin a version of Shakespeare's Coriolanus that incorporates parts of the version by James Thomson, as Coriolanus, or The Roman Matron. September 15 – At Williamsburg, Virginia, Lewis Hallam begins a North American tour with his brother William's company, with a production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. unknown date – The first of the Herculaneum papyri are discovered.
New books
Fiction Charlotte Lennox – The Female Quixote Voltaire – Histoire du docteur Akakia et du natif de Saint-Malo
Drama Samuel Foote – Taste
Poetry
Moses Browne – The Works and Rest of the Creation John Byrom – Enthusiasm Richard Owen Cambridge – A Dialogue Between a Member of Parliament and His Servant Thomas Cooke – Pythagoras William Mason – Elfrida Christopher Smart – Poems
Non-fiction George Ballard – Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain Who Have Been Celebrated for their Writing or Skill in the Learned Languages, Arts, and Sciences George Berkeley – A Miscellany Thomas Birch – The Life of John Tillotson Francis Blackburne – A Serious Inquiry into the Use and Importance of External Religion William Dodd – The Beauties of Shakespeare Henry Fielding as "Sir Alexander Drawcansir" – The Covent-Garden Journal (periodical) John Hawkesworth – The Adventurer (periodical) David Hume – Political Discourses William Law The Spirit of Love The Way to Divine Knowledge Henry St. John – Letters on the Study and Use of History José Francisco de Isla – Cartas de Juan de la Encina Diego de Torres Villarroel – Obra`
Births January 3 – Johannes von Müller, Swiss historian (died 1809) February 17 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German dramatist and novelist (died 1831) June 13 – Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (died 1840) November 20 – Thomas Chatterton, English poet and forger of medieval poetry (died 1770)
Deaths September 19 – Louis Fuzelier, French dramatist (born 1672) September 22 – Péter Apor, Hungarian historian writing in Latin (born 1676) October 24 – Christian Falster, Danish poet and philologist (born 1690) November 2 – Johann Albrecht Bengel, German New Testament commentator (born 1687) November 5 – Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (born 1670) Unknown date – Li E (厲鶚), Chinese poet (born 1692)
See also Augustan literature
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