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The year 1744 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths

[edit] Events

• May 29 - Alexander Pope is received into the Roman Catholic faith, a day before his death.
• Samuel Foote makes his debut as an actor.
• The Female Spectator (periodical) is founded by Eliza Haywood.

[edit] New books

• Mary Collyer - Felicia to Charlotte (prose fiction)
• Sarah Fielding - The Adventures of David Simple
• Eliza Haywood - The Fortunate Foundlings (prose fiction)
• Edward Moore - Fables for the Female Sex
• John Newbery - A Little Pretty Pocket-Book
• William Oldys - The Harleian Miscellany (introduction by Samuel Johnson)
• Joseph Warton - The Enthusiast
• Paul Whitehead - The Gymnasiad

[edit] New drama

• Robert Dodsley - A Select Collection of Old Plays
• William Harvard - Regulus
• James Miller - Joseph and his Brethren (music by Handel)
  • - Mahomet the Imposter (adapted from Voltaire's Mahomet)
• Thomas Odell - The Prodigal
• James Ralph - The Astrologer (adapted from Thomas Tomkis's Albumazar, which was adapted from Giambattista della Porta's L'astrologo)

[edit] Poetry

• Mark Akenside
  • The Pleasures of the Imagination
  • An Epistle to Curio
• Jane Brereton - Poems

[edit] Non-fiction

• John Armstrong - The Art of Preserving Health
• George Berkeley - Siris
• Emilie de Breteuil, marquise du Chatelet -Dissertation sur la nature et la propagation du feu
• Colley Cibber - Another Occasional Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope
• David Garrick - An Essay on Acting (attrib.)
• Samuel Johnson
  • Life of Savage
  • An Account of the Life of John Philip Barretier
• Alexander Pope - Essay on Man, volume 4: "Epistle: Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to" (4) "Happiness" (the first 2 epistles were written in 1732 and the third in 1733).
• Jonathan Swift - Three Sermons

[edit] Births

• February 10 - William Mitford, historian (died 1827)
• August 25 - Johann Gottfried Herder, German poet (died 1803)
• date unknown - Elsa Fougt, Swedish editor and publisher

[edit] Deaths

• March 31 - Antiochus Kantemir, diplomat and writer (born 1708)
• May 30 - Alexander Pope, poet and satirist (born 1688)
• September 18 - Lewis Theobald, Shakespearean editor and literary "dunce" (b. 1688)
• unknown date
  • Charlotte Fielding, wife of Henry Fielding; she was his model for Sophia Western in Tom Jones
  • Thomas Innes, Scottish historian (born 1662)
• James Miller, poet and dramatist (born 1703)