1774 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1774.

Events

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 permits authors to claim copyright in their own works.
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.
Following 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.^[2]
James Lackington begins in the London bookselling business.
Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider becomes secretary to Richard François Philippe Brunck.
Approximate date – National and University Library of Slovenia in Ljubljana established as the Lyceum Library from the remains of the dissolved Jesuit library and several monastery libraries.

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 history")

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
William Whitehead – Plays and Poems, by William Whitehead, Esq. Poet Laureat
Cándido María Trigueros – El poeta filósofo o Poesías filosóficas en verso pentámetro

Giacomo Casanova – Istoria delle turbolenze della Polonia
Joseph Cradock – Village Memoirs
Mary Deverell – Sermons
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 (posthumous) – 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; an English translation, in one volume, of Histoire de la Louisiane, published in 1758
Joseph Priestley – Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air
William Richardson – A Philosophical Analysis and Illustration of Some of Shakespeare's Remarkable Characters
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield – Letters to his Son
Sugita Genpaku – Kaitai Shinsho (New Text on Anatomy)
Horace Walpole – A Description of Strawberry-Hill
Thomas Warton – The History of English Poetry
John Wesley – Thoughts upon Slavery
Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes – Discurso sobre el fomento de la industria popular

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)

↑ 2 Brown's Parl. Cases 129, 1 Eng. Rep. 837; 4 Burr. 2408, 98 Eng. Rep. 257; 17 Cobbett's Parl. Hist. 953 (1813).
↑ "Das Stadtschloss Weimar / The Palace at Weimar" (PDF). Klassik Stiftung Weimar. 2010. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
↑ BBC Two: Writing Scotland

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