1757 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1757.

Events

May 3 – Irish-born actress Peg Woffington, playing Rosalind in As You Like It, suffers a stroke on stage at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London and never acts again.
May 6 – Poet Christopher Smart is confined to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London.^[1]
November/December – Thomas Gray turns down the post of Poet Laureate of Great Britain.
Angelo Maria Bandini is appointed librarian of the Laurentian Library in Florence.
Pierre-Augustin Caron changes his name to Beaumarchais.
Jonathan Edwards becomes President of the institution that will become Princeton University.
Robert Raikes becomes proprietor of the Gloucester Journal.
Horace Walpole begins the Strawberry Hill Press.
Thomas Warton is appointed Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford.
The Parlement of Toulouse stages a public burning of Jesuit author Hermann Busenbaum's Medulla Theologiae Morales because of its treatment of the subject of regicide.
The Baskerville typeface is designed by John Baskerville of Birmingham, England, and first used in an edition of Virgil (Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et Æneis).

William Duncombe – The Works of Horace in English Verse (various translators).
Edward and Elizabeth Griffith – A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances vols. i – ii.
Madame Riccoboni – Lettres de Mistriss Fanny Butlerd.
Gregorio Mayáns y Siscar – Retórica

Anonymous – The Taxes
Phanuel Bacon – Humorous Ethics, or an Attempt to Cure the Vices and Follies of the Age by a Method Entirely New (5 plays)
Denis Diderot – Le Fils naturel
Samuel Foote – The Author
David Garrick – Lilliput
John Home – Douglas
Tobias Smollett – The Reprisal

John Brown – An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times
Edmund Burke – A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
John Dalrymple – An Essay Towards a General History of Feudal Property in Great Britain
Samuel Derrick (probable compiler) – Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies (1st edn)
Adam Ferguson – The Morality of Stage-Plays Seriously Considered
Sarah Fielding – The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia
David Hume – The Natural History of Religion
Soame Jenyns – A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil
Richard Price – Review of the Principal Questions in Morals
Tobias Smollett – A Complete History of England
William Warburton – Remarks upon Mr. David Hume's Essay on the Natural History of Religion
Joseph Warton – Essay on Pope
John Wesley – The Doctrine of Original Sin

February 1 – John Philip Kemble, English actor (died 1823)
February 6 – Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Polish poet and dramatist (died 1841)
April 9 – Wojciech Bogusławski, Polish actor, director and dramatist (died 1829)
July 21 – Basilius von Ramdohr, German journalist and critic (died 1822)
November 9 – William Sotheby, English poet and translator (died 1833)
November 13 – Archibald Alison, Scottish essayist and cleric (died 1839)
November 18 – William Blake, English poet and artist (died 1827)
November 27 (possible year) – Mary Robinson (née Darby), English poet, actress and royal mistress (died 1800)
December 4 – Charles Burney, English classicist and book thief (died 1817)
Unknown date – Giovanni Antonio Galignani, Italian publisher (died 1821)

January 9 – Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, French dramatist and author (born 1657)
January 19 – Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar, editor, printer and librarian (born 1674)
March 1 – Edward Moore, English dramatist (born 1712)
March 8 – Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (born 1701)
August 28 – David Hartley, English philosopher and psychologist (born 1705)
November 12 – Colley Cibber, English dramatist, actor-manager and Poet Laureate (born 1671)
December 15 (burial) – John Dyer, Welsh poet (born 1699)

↑ Sherbo, Arthur (1967). Christopher Smart: Scholar of the University. Michigan State University Press. p. 112. He may have been confined in a private madhouse before this.

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