1752 in literature

The year 1752 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

• John Hill and Henry Fielding begin the Paper War of 1752-1753.
• Tobias Smollett quarrels with Henry Fielding, accusing him of plagiarism.

New Books

• George Ballard - Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain
• 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

Fiction

• Charlotte Lennox - The Female Quixote
• Voltaire - Histoire du docteur Akakia et du natif de Saint-Malo

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

Newly published drama

• Samuel Foote - Taste

Births

• January 3 : Johannes von Müller (died 1809)
• June 13 : Fanny Burney (died 1840)
• November 20 : Thomas Chatterton (died 1770)

Deaths

• November 5 – Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (born 1670)

See also

• Augustan literature