List of years in literature
1780s
### 1780s

* **[1780 in literature](/wiki/1780_in_literature "1780 in literature")** – *[Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever](/wiki/Letters_to_a_Philosophical_Unbeliever "Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever")* – [Joseph Priestley](/wiki/Joseph_Priestley "Joseph Priestley")
* **[1781 in literature](/wiki/1781_in_literature "1781 in literature")** – *[A Critique of Pure Reason](/wiki/A_Critique_of_Pure_Reason "A Critique of Pure Reason")* – [Immanuel Kant](/wiki/Immanuel_Kant "Immanuel Kant")
* **[1782 in literature](/wiki/1782_in_literature "1782 in literature")** – *[The Robbers](/wiki/The_Robbers "The Robbers")* – [Friedrich Schiller](/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller "Friedrich Schiller"); *[Les Liaisons dangereuses](/wiki/Les_Liaisons_dangereuses "Les Liaisons dangereuses")* – [Pierre Choderlos de Laclos](/wiki/Pierre_Choderlos_de_Laclos "Pierre Choderlos de Laclos"). Death of [Jean\-Jacques Rousseau](/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau "Jean-Jacques Rousseau")
* **[1783 in literature](/wiki/1783_in_literature "1783 in literature")** – *[Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics](/wiki/Prolegomena_to_any_Future_Metaphysics "Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics")* – [Immanuel Kant](/wiki/Immanuel_Kant "Immanuel Kant")
* **[1784 in literature](/wiki/1784_in_literature "1784 in literature")** – *[Barham Downs](/wiki/Barham_Downs_%28novel%29 "Barham Downs (novel)")* – [Robert Bage](/wiki/Robert_Bage_%28novelist%29 "Robert Bage (novelist)"); *[The Marriage of Figaro](/wiki/The_Marriage_of_Figaro_%28play%29 "The Marriage of Figaro (play)")* – [Pierre Beaumarchais](/wiki/Pierre_Beaumarchais "Pierre Beaumarchais"). Death of [Denis Diderot](/wiki/Denis_Diderot "Denis Diderot"); [Samuel Johnson](/wiki/Samuel_Johnson "Samuel Johnson"); [Phillis Wheatley](/wiki/Phillis_Wheatley "Phillis Wheatley")
* **[1785 in literature](/wiki/1785_in_literature "1785 in literature")** – *[120 Days of Sodom](/wiki/120_Days_of_Sodom "120 Days of Sodom")* – [Marquis de Sade](/wiki/Marquis_de_Sade "Marquis de Sade"); *[Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals](/wiki/Groundwork_of_the_Metaphysic_of_Morals "Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals")* – [Immanuel Kant](/wiki/Immanuel_Kant "Immanuel Kant"), *[Anton Reiser](/wiki/Anton_Reiser "Anton Reiser")* (to 1790\) – [Karl Philipp Moritz](/wiki/Karl_Philipp_Moritz "Karl Philipp Moritz"); *[The Task](/wiki/The_Task_%28poem%29 "The Task (poem)")* – [William Cowper](/wiki/William_Cowper "William Cowper")
* **[1786 in literature](/wiki/1786_in_literature "1786 in literature")** – *[Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect](/wiki/Poems_Chiefly_in_the_Scottish_Dialect "Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect")* – [Robert Burns](/wiki/Robert_Burns "Robert Burns"); *[Vathek](/wiki/Vathek "Vathek")* – [William Thomas Beckford](/wiki/William_Thomas_Beckford "William Thomas Beckford")
* **[1787 in literature](/wiki/1787_in_literature "1787 in literature")** – *[Don Carlos](/wiki/Don_Carlos "Don Carlos")* – [Friedrich Schiller](/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller "Friedrich Schiller"); *[Paul et Virginie](/wiki/Paul_et_Virginie "Paul et Virginie")* – [Jacques\-Henri Bernardin de Saint\-Pierre](/wiki/Jacques-Henri_Bernardin_de_Saint-Pierre "Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre")
* **[1788 in literature](/wiki/1788_in_literature "1788 in literature")** – *[Memoirs](/wiki/Memoirs "Memoirs")* – [Saint\-Simon](/wiki/Louis_de_Rouvroy%2C_duc_de_Saint-Simon "Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon"); *[Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle](/wiki/Emmeline "Emmeline")* – [Charlotte Turner Smith](/wiki/Charlotte_Smith_%28writer%29 "Charlotte Smith (writer)")
* **[1789 in literature](/wiki/1789_in_literature "1789 in literature")** – *[Songs of Innocence](/wiki/Songs_of_Innocence "Songs of Innocence")* – [William Blake](/wiki/William_Blake "William Blake"); *[The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire](/wiki/The_History_of_the_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Roman_Empire "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire")* – [Edward Gibbon](/wiki/Edward_Gibbon "Edward Gibbon") – completed

Who wrote The Robbers in 1782?