Editing 1762 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1762'''.
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==Events==
*[[April 27]] – Rev. [[Hugh Blair]] is appointed first Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at the [[University of Edinburgh]] by [[George III of the United Kingdom|King George III]], the first such chair in [[English literature]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Morell Schmitz|title=Hugh Blair|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9T5aAAAAMAAJ|year=1948|publisher=King's Crown Press|isbn=978-0-231-91484-0|page=63}}</ref>
*[[June 19]] – [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]'s ''[[The Social Contract]] (Du Contrat social, ou Principes du droit politique)'' and ''[[Emile, or On Education]] (Émile, ou De l’éducation)'', recently published in Amsterdam and The Hague respectively, are publicly burned in Paris.<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter Gay|title=The Party of Humanity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FuEXmmye17gC&pg=PT26|date=8 May 2013|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-307-83143-9|pages=26}}</ref> They are also prohibited in Rousseau's native Republic of [[Geneva]]. 
*[[June 20]] – In Paris, the [[Comédie-Italienne]], having merged with the [[Opéra-Comique]], performs at the [[Hôtel de Bourgogne (theatre)|Hôtel de Bourgogne]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Ignatius Letellier|title=Opéra-Comique: A Sourcebook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K04aBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA481|date=16 April 2010|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=978-1-4438-2168-1|pages=481}}</ref>
*The [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]] library is founded.<ref>{{cite book |last=Stam |first=David H. |title=International Dictionary of Library Histories, Volume 2 |year=2001 |publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers |location=Chicago, IL |isbn=1579582443 |page=880}}</ref> 
*The [[Académie française]] produces a new edition of its dictionary of the [[French language]], the fourth to be published.<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael P. Fitzsimmons|title=The Place of Words: The Académie Française and Its Dictionary During an Age of Revolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ocM9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA179|year=2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-064453-6|pages=179}}</ref>
*[[Benjamin Victor (theatre manager)|Benjamin Victor]]'s adaptation of ''[[The Two Gentlemen of Verona]]'' (with expanded roles for the clown Launce and his dog) is staged by [[David Garrick]] at [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane|Drury Lane]], and runs for five nights. It is the earliest known performance of that Shakespearean play in any form.
*[[Christoph Martin Wieland]] begins publishing his prose translations of 22 [[Shakespeare]]an plays, the first translations of them into [[German language|German]] (in 8 volumes, through 1766).

[[File:Schlachtmetzig-Biberach.jpg|thumb|''Komödienhaus in der Schlachtmetzig'' in [[Biberach an der Riss]] where in 1762 [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[The Tempest]]'', translated by [[Christoph Wieland]], is performed for the first time in Germany.]]

==New books==
===Fiction===
*[[John Cleland]] (attributed)  – ''The Romance of a Night'' 
*[[Oliver Goldsmith]] – ''[[The Citizen of the World]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Oliver Goldsmith|title=The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith ...: With a Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=04NIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA227|year=1864|publisher=E. H. Butler & Company|pages=227}}</ref>
*[[Charles Johnstone]] – ''The Reverie''
*[[John Langhorne (poet)|John Langhorne]] – ''Solyman and Almena''
*[[Thomas Leland]] – ''[[Longsword (novel)|Longsword, Earl of Salisbury: An Historical Romance]]''
*[[Charlotte Lennox]] – ''Sophia''
*[[Sarah Scott]] – ''[[Millenium Hall|Millenium <!-- PLEASE NOTE that "Millenium" is the correct spelling here --> Hall and the Country Adjacent]]''
*[[Tobias Smollett]] – ''The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves''
*[[Laurence Sterne]] – ''[[The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman]]'' (vols. v–vi)

===Drama===
*[[John Delap]] – ''Hecuba''
*[[Nicolás Fernandez de Moratín]] – ''La petimetra''
*[[Samuel Foote]] – ''The Orators''
*[[David Garrick]] – ''Cymbeline'' (adapted)
*[[Carlo Goldoni]] – ''[[Le baruffe chiozzotte]]'' (The Brawl in Chioggia)
*[[Carlo Gozzi]] – ''[[Turandot (Gozzi)|Turandot]]''
*[[Charlotte Lennox]] – ''The Sister''
*[[Hannah More]] – ''The Search after Happiness'' ("for young ladies to act")
*[[William Whitehead (poet)|William Whitehead]] – ''[[The School for Lovers (play)|The School for Lovers]]''

===Poetry===
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*[[James Boswell]] – ''The Cub at Newmarket''
*[[Elizabeth Carter]] – ''Poems on Several Occasions''
*[[Charles Churchill (satirist)|Charles Churchill]] – ''The Ghost'' (books i–ii)
*[[Mary Collier]] – ''Poems''
*[[John Cunningham (poet and dramatist)|John Cunningham]] – ''The Contemplatist''
*[[Tomás Antônio Gonzaga]] – ''[[Marília de Dirceu]]''
*[[Edward Jerningham]] – ''The Nunnery''
*[[Robert Lloyd (poet)|Robert Lloyd]] – ''Poems''
*[[James Macpherson]] as "[[Ossian]]" – ''Fingal''
*[[William Whitehead (English poet)|William Whitehead]] – ''A Charge to the Poets''
*[[Edward Young]] – ''Resignation''

===Non-fiction===
*''[[The North Briton]]'' (newspaper)
*[[George Campbell (Presbyterian minister)|George Campbell]] – ''A Dissertation on Miracles''
*[[Jacques Cazotte]] – ''[[Jacques Cazotte|Ollivier]]''.
*[[Denis Diderot]]
**''Éloge de Richardson''
**''[[Rameau's Nephew]]'' (''Le Neveu de Rameau ou La Satire seconde''; completed; first published 1805)
*[[Nicolas Fernández de Moratín]] – ''Desengaños al teatro español''
*[[Henry Fielding]] – ''Works''
*[[Oliver Goldsmith]]
**''The Life of Richard Nash''
**''The Mystery Revealed'' (on the Cock Lane Ghost)
*[[Paisiy Hilendarski]] – ''[[Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya]]'' (Slavonic-Bulgarian History)
*[[Henry Home]] – ''Elements of Criticism''
*[[Richard Hurd (bishop)|Richard Hurd]] – ''Letters on Chivalry and Romance''
*[[William Kenrick (writer)|William Kenrick]] – ''Emilius and Sophia'' (translation of Rousseau)
*[[John Langhorne (poet)|John Langhorne]] – ''Letters on Religious Retirement, Melancholy and Enthusiasm''
*[[Robert Lowth]] – ''A Short Introduction to English Grammar''
*[[William Williams Pantycelyn]] – ''Llythyr Martha Philopur at y Parchedig Philo Evangelius eu hathro'' (Martha Philopur's letter to the Reverend Philo Evangelius, her teacher)
*[[John Parkhurst (lexicographer)|John Parkhurst]] – ''An Hebrew and English Lexicon''
*[[Joseph Priestley]] – ''A Course of Lectures on the Theory of Language, and Universal Grammar''
*[[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]
**''[[The Social Contract]]''
**''[[Emile, or On Education]]''
*[[Horace Walpole]] – ''Anecdotes of Painting in England'', Volume 1

==Births==
*[[January 11]] – [[Andrew Cherry]], Irish playwright and actor-manager (died [[1812 in literature|1812]])
*[[May 19]] – [[Johann Gottlieb Fichte]], German philosopher (died [[1814 in literature|1814]])
*[[September 11]] – [[Joanna Baillie]], Scottish poet and dramatist (died [[1851 in literature|1851]])
*[[September 24]] – [[William Lisle Bowles]], English poet and critic (died [[1850 in literature|1850]])
*[[October 30]] – [[André Chénier]], French poet (guillotined [[1794 in literature|1794]])
*[[Susanna Rowson]] née Haswell, English-born American novelist, poet, playwright, religious writer, actress, educator and abolitionist (died [[1824 in literature|1824]])

==Deaths==
*[[May 26]] – [[Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten]], German philosopher (born [[1714 in literature|1714]])
*[[June 17]] – [[Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon]], French poet and tragedian (born [[1674 in literature|1674]])
*[[June 26]] – [[Luise Gottsched]], German poet, comic playwright and translator (born [[1713 in literature|1713]])
*[[August 21]] – [[Lady Mary Wortley Montagu]], English letter writer and poet (born [[1698 in literature|1698]])
*[[October 14]] – [[Hieronymus Pez]], Austrian historian and monastic librarian (born [[1685 in literature|1685]])

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