1779 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1779. Events April 6 – The premiėre of Iphigenie auf Tauris by Johann Wolfgang Goethe is held at the private Ducal Palace in Weimar. October 8 – William Blake enrols as a student with the Royal Academy of Arts at Somerset House in London. New books Fiction Richard Graves – Columella Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi – Woldemar Ignacy Krasicki – Fables and Parables (Bajki i przypowieści) Nocturnal Revels Samuel Jackson Pratt as "Courtney Melmoth" Shenstone-Green The Tutor of Truth The Sorrows of Werther (anonymous translation of a Johann Wolfgang von Goethe work) Children Joachim Heinrich Campe – Robinson der Jüngere (based on Defoe) Drama Fanny Burney – The Witlings (unpublished) Hannah Cowley Albina, Countess Raimond Who's the Dupe Richard Cumberland – Calypso Hugh Downman – Lucius Junius Brutus Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian – Les Deux Billets William Hodson – Zoraida Robert Jephson – The Law of Lombardy Gotthold Ephraim Lessing – Nathan der Weise (published) Richard Brinsley Sheridan – The Critic Poetry William Cowper and John Newton – Olney Hymns Robert Fergusson – Poems William Hayley – Epistle to Admiral Keppel Ann Murry – Poems Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos –