1762 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1762.

Events

Founding of the Sorbonne library.^[1]
The Académie française produces a new edition of its dictionary of the French language.
In Paris, the Comédie-Italienne is merged with the Opéra-Comique and performs at the Hôtel de Bourgogne (theatre).
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 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 Shakespearean plays, their first translations into German (in 8 volumes, through 1766).
Rev. Hugh Blair is appointed first Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at the University of Edinburgh by King George III, the first such chair in English literature.

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.

John Cleland – The Romance of a Night (attributed)
Oliver Goldsmith – The Citizen of the World
Charles Johnstone – The Reverie
John Langhorne – Solyman and Almena
Thomas Leland – Longsword, Earl of Salisbury: An Historical Romance
Charlotte Lennox – Sophia
Sarah Scott – A Description of Millenium 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)

The North Briton (newspaper)
George Campbell – A Dissertation on Miracles
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 – Letters on Chivalry and Romance
William Kenrick – Emilius and Sophia (translation of Rousseau)
John Langhorne – Letters on Religious Retirement, Melancholy and Enthusiasm
Robert Lowth – A Short Introduction to English Grammar
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 (Du contrat social, ou Principes du droit politique)
- Émile, or On Education
Horace Walpole – Anecdotes of Painting in England, Volume 1

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

↑ Stam, David H. (2001). International Dictionary of Library Histories, Volume 2. Chicago, IL: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. p. 880. ISBN 1579582443.

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