1763 in literature

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See also: 1762 in literature, other events of 1763, 1764 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• John Wilkes was arrested for his writings in The North Briton
• Marriage of Henry Thrale and Hester Thrale, later close friends and companions of Dr Samuel Johnson.
• May 16 - James Boswell is introduced to Samuel Johnson at Thomas Davies's bookshop in London

New books

• Frances Brooke - The History of Lady Julia Mandeville
• James Grieve - English translation of Stepan Krasheninnikov's History of Kamtschatka
• Susannah Minifie and Margaret Minifie - The Histories of Lady Frances S---- and Lady Caroline S----
• John Langhorne - The Letters that Passed Between Theodosius and Constantia
• The Peregrinations of Jeremiah Grant (anonymous)
• Cao Xueqin - The Chronicles of the Stone

New drama

• Isaac Bickerstaffe - Love in a Village (opera)
• George Colman the Elder - The Deuce is in Him
• Mary Latter - The Siege of Jerusalem
• David Mallet - Elvira
• Arthur Murphy - The Citizen
• Frances Sheridan - The Discovery

Poetry

• Richard Bentley the Younger - Patriotism
• Charles Churchill
  • The Author
  • The Conference
  • An Epistle to William Hogarth
  • The Prophecy of Famine
  • Poems
• John Collier - Tim Bobbin's Toy-shop
• George Keate - The Alps
• Robert Lloyd - The Death of Adam
• James Macpherson as "Ossian" - Temora
• William Mason - Elegies
• James Merrick - Poems
• Christopher Smart - A Song to David

Non-fiction

• John Ash - Grammatical Institutes
• Hugh Blair - A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian
• John Brown - A Dissertation on Poetry and Music
• Philip Doddridge - A Course of Lectures on the Principal Subjects in Pneumatology, Ethics, and Divinity
• Immanuel Kant - The Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of the Existence of God
• Antoine Simon Le Page Du Pratz - History of Louisiana; an English translation, in two volumes, of Histoire de la Louisiane, published in 1758
• Catharine Macaulay - The History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line
• Mary Wortley Montagu - Letters
• Robert Orme - A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan from the Year 1745
• Henry Venn - The Complete Duty of Man
• William Warburton - The Doctrine of Grace
• John Wesley - A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation

Births

• January 29 - Johann Gottfried Seume, travel writer (died 1810)
• March 9 - William Cobbett, journalist (died 1835)
• July 30 - Samuel Rogers, poet (died 1855)
• September 2 - Karoline Schelling, literary critic (died 1809)
• date unknown - Shen Fu, Chinese chronicler (died c. 1810)

Deaths

• January 11 - Caspar Abel, poet and theologian (born 1676)
• February 11 - William Shenstone, poet (born 1714)
• June 29 - Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Swedish poet and salon hostess (born 1718)
• September 26 - John Byrom, poet (born 1692)
• December 23 - Antoine François Prévost, French author, better known as the Abbé Prévost (born 1697)
• date unknown - Cao Xueqin, Chinese novelist (born c. 1715)